House M.D. received three Emmy nominations! That’s right, just three.   So what you’re saying to yourself is they must be three very good nominations. House must be up for Best Dramatic Show, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Television Show Created in the History...

Let’s take a look at some of last night’s dishes and play a game. The name of the game is “Would You Order It?” The chefs created dishes to be put on the Hilton hotel menus to go or to eat in. I assume it’s a step above your average motel’s complimentary breakfast...

A review of tonight’s “Justified” coming up just as soon as you think we’re going to banter here… “You think there’s never going to be any consequences for this?” -Art Raylan Givens began this series as a man in control - of his emotions, of predicting...

In today’s column, I review “Happy Town,” which premieres tonight on ABC. Not a fan, and it won’t be part of the blog rotation as I move over to HitFix (nor would it have been were I staying here). Feel free to discuss the premiere here if you watch it tonight. View original...

Over at NJ.com, I’ve embedded video of the trailer to HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” To quote Poniewozik , “On the one hand: anything can look good in a trailer. OTOH: Jesus!” Read the original here: HBO’s "Boardwalk Empire" trailer unveiled

Over at NJ.com, I ranked the top 12 “American Idol” contestants , while acknowledging the absolute folly of last year’s rankings , and while appropriating the tiers concept that Adam Bonin again used today . I’m not feeling very optimistic for tonight, as the combination of an...

Yesterday, I ran an interview with Elmore Leonard about why FX’s “Justified” is one of the few adaptations of his work that he’s happy with (and talks a lot of trash about the ones that displeased him). Today, I have a review of why I like the show: Raylan Givens is a man with...

In today’s column, I interview legendary author Elmore Leonard about FX’s “Justified” (based on a character from several Leonard books) and about why Hollywood has had so much trouble adapting his books in the past. Elmore can talk some smack. I’ll have a review of “Justified”...

Tonight’s “How to Make It in America” was the last I got to see in advance before I wrote my review of the series a month ago. While I still feel the show is engaging but too slight to merit any kind of episode-by-episode reviewing, I’m curious to hear from people who have stuck...

In today’s column, I lament how well NBC’s Olympics coverage is doing in the ratings , given how frustrating so much of it is. I asked a week ago what you thought of NBC’s coverage, and most of you were unhappy with it. That still the case? Here is the original post:  Even on NBC’s...