Wednesday night’s CSI was an episode titled “Willows in the Wind.” The tortured play on words, crossing “in the wind” with the Kenneth Grahame book title (does this make Ted Danson’s CSI leader Toad of Toad Hall?) was matched by the excruciatingly tedious plotline that’s been playing out over the past couple of weeks, something about FBI agents (including one played by Friday Night Lights‘ Matt Lauria) and “black ops boys” trying to run roughshod over our CSI heroes, especially Marg Helgenberger’s Catherine Willows, who had an old friend (played by Annabeth Gish) involved. READ FULL STORY »
Marg Helgenberger didn't quite get the farewell she deserved on 'CSI': A review
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'Touch' premiere review: Kiefer Sutherland and the magic numbers: Did they add up to you?
The earnest new drama Touch has its heart in the right place and its mind drifting off into unknown areas. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Martin Bohm, a New Yorker whose wife died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and who’s raising his 11-year-old son, Jake (David Mazouz). Jake, who narrated much of the pilot episode on Wednesday night, actually hasn’t spoken since he was born, and cannot stand to be touched. He spends a lot of time working out elaborate series of numbers. READ FULL STORY »
UPDATE: 'Alcatraz' week 2, 'Kit Nelson': Why it's caught on with a large audience so quickly, and why it may deserve to
Alcatraz premiered last week with back-to-back episodes that lured more than 10 million viewers and bested the premiere of its time-period predecessor, Terra Nova. The show had two things going for it from the start: A catchy premise (Alcatraz prisoners from the 1960s are somehow transported into our current era) and fan-favorite Jorge Garcia. READ FULL STORY »
The final 'Prime Suspect' episodes: A farewell to a good show
NBC burned off the final two episodes of Prime Suspect on Sunday night. The football game was on Fox, CBS aired a rerun, you aren’t watching Desperate Housewives anymore, are you, especially when you could watch Downton Abbey? Anyway, much in the manner a criminal on an episode of Prime Suspect might dispose of two dead bodies, NBC dumped Prime Suspect with a pair of new, good episodes. READ FULL STORY »
The Michael Mann Interview, Part 1: His life and work in television, from 'Starsky and Hutch' to 'Miami Vice' to 'Luck': EXCLUSIVE
Michael Mann is the rare director-writer-producer who has maintained simultaneous careers in feature films and television, and he’s done this since the 1970s. Mann’s TV career includes not only the major hit series and cultural avatar Miami Vice (1984-90), but also television’s first serialized drama, Crime Story (1986-88), and the first weekly series to be shot in high-definition film, Robbery Homicide Division (2002-2003).
As the premiere of the Mann-directed pilot of HBO’s Luck nears on Jan. 29, Mann spoke with me about the entire breadth of his TV career, starting at the beginning, with writing work on the anthology series Police Story, and the Aaron Spelling-produced hit Starsky and Hutch. READ FULL STORY »
'Justified' season premiere review: 'Dexter' actor helped launch what may be the best season yet
Justified began its new season on Tuesday night with a sweet episode titled “The Gunfighter” that demonstrated a gratifyingly renewed focus on keeping the storytelling closely aligned with the series’ source material, from novelist Elmore Leonard. And the more Justified hews to lean, Leonardian crime-story plots, the better—stronger, wittier—it becomes. READ FULL STORY »
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