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They (incorrectly) say that those who can’t do, teach. But can those who criticize, create? Here are 18 critics who…

In this season, or in this latter half of its third season, the pressure has been on Teen Wolf to prove that it…

“I’m a Zionist,” Simon Schama announces, halfway through The Story Of The Jews. It is, he concedes, a loaded term,…

“Para-Natesville Activity” benefits from appearances by two friends of the show: Mike O’Malley as Jimmy, the guy who…

F. Scott Fitzgerald, former celebrity golden boy of American letters turned failed screenwriter, wrote that there…

Oswald Morris, one of the greatest cinematographers of the color era, has died, at 98.  Morris started in the movie…

Ever since it was announced that Jason Segel would be playing David Foster Wallace, in a movie based on David…

Just how terrific is Mark A. Sheppard? There was a time, not so very long ago, when I would have tagged this as a…

When it started out, Person Of Interest just looked like a show about being unkillable and kicking ass. More and…

Even as an often disappointing and undercooked season is dribbling to a close, Teen Wolf still has the ability to…

1. Bender, Futurama
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, which is the official holiday of staring dazed at a friend who you…

Comedian David Brenner has died, at age 78.  The son of a vaudeville performer who worked under the name “Lou…

With a month to go before it ambles off the air for good, Raising Hope may never again produce an episode as…

Richard Coogan, the original Captain Video, has died, three weeks shy of what would have been his 100th birthday.…

This one comes from reader Sally Law: What television trope aggravates you the most?

The Netflix series House Of Cards is the biggest hit that its star, Kevin Spacey, has had in many years. When it was…

The first few minutes of “De-Void” are devoted to establishing that the Nogitsune-possessed Stiles is indeed a…

Australian actress Wendy Hughes has died at the age of 61, after a bout with cancer. Having established herself on…

Sheila McRae—an actress and entertainer best remembered as the singing, full-color Alice Kramden in The…

In what future historians will refer to as “the post-Governor era of The Walking Dead,” the show has stepped in to…