Amateur Whitney Houston covers! "Baywatch" babes turned low-rent spokesmodels! Obscene crank calls! If you found the prime-time season too taxing, summer TV is for you.
Thursday, Jun 27, 2002 8:00 PM UTCIn Michael Apted's sad, hopeful and deeply moving new documentary series on marriage in America," "I do" isn't a happy ending -- but rather an uncertain beginning.
Saturday, Jun 15, 2002 8:00 PM UTCThe cops, firefighters and paramedics of ABC's reality series "Boston 24/7" are so inspiring, dedicated and hardworking it's ... weirdly depressing. Still, just try to switch it off.
Thursday, Jun 6, 2002 8:00 PM UTCBarbara Kopple's "The Hamptons" offers a dishy, surprisingly soft-focus vision of the summer playground for America's elite and those who want to be them.
Saturday, Jun 1, 2002 8:00 PM UTCThe TV season ends in an orgy of sex, birth, death and other life-changing events.
Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:00 PM UTCThe upcoming fall season will be heavy on cop dramas, dysfunctional family sitcoms, office comedies and other TV comfort food.
Saturday, May 25, 2002 8:00 PM UTCVicariously thrilling, coldly pragmatic and wildly popular, TV's new dating shows are the 21st century equivalent of medieval courtly love -- in a hot tub.
Thursday, May 9, 2002 8:00 PM UTCSure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.
Thursday, May 2, 2002 8:00 PM UTCIt's news! It's chat! It's recipes and jewelry tips and bimbonics and fat-cheerleader jokes! Welcome to the frat-house hangout zone of "The Best Damn Sports Show, Period."
Thursday, Apr 25, 2002 8:00 PM UTCJon Favreau talks about "Dinner for Five," where Denis Leary eats with Famke Janssen, and Marilyn Manson terrorizes Daryl Hannah with stories about his amateur porn movies.
Thursday, Apr 18, 2002 7:00 PM UTCIn MTV's smash hit "The Osbournes," George W.'s favorite Satan-worshiping metal maniac is just a frazzled, law-abiding dad.
Thursday, Apr 11, 2002 8:00 PM UTCOn FX's "The Shield," a squinting sheriff with a loyal posse dispenses vigilante justice to the lawless and the overly tan: It's a cop show George Bush could love.
Thursday, Apr 4, 2002 9:00 PM UTCFox's "Greg the Bunny" offers cheap, hilarious gags on the set of a fake PBS "edutainment." Can it survive the single-camera sitcom curse?
Thursday, Mar 28, 2002 9:00 PM UTCCo-creator Dan Milano talks about the long, exceedingly strange trip of "Greg the Bunny."
Thursday, Mar 28, 2002 9:00 PM UTCHow TLC's tear-jerking ultra-reality shows, in which ordinary folks give birth, go on blind dates and undergo cosmetic dentistry, became the hottest thing on daytime cable.
Thursday, Mar 21, 2002 9:00 PM UTCNBC's "The Matthew Shepard Story" and HBO's "Con Man" try to capture the tragic lives of two very different college students using tried-and-true TV formulas.
Thursday, Mar 14, 2002 9:00 PM UTC"Six Feet Under," Alan Ball's mordant, metaphysical and deeply humane soap opera, may just be the best show on TV.
Saturday, Mar 9, 2002 6:01 PM UTCJulia Louis-Dreyfus is messed up and real in the innovative "Watching Ellie," but the heroine in "Leap of Faith" is a formulaic Empowered TV Woman with fake problems.
Thursday, Feb 28, 2002 9:00 PM UTCSure, they're back for one more year, but -- I never thought I'd say this -- I'll miss them when they're gone.
Thursday, Feb 21, 2002 9:00 PM UTC"Primetime Glick" and "The Daily Show" prove you can even parody the gruesome self-parody that is entertainment journalism.
Thursday, Feb 14, 2002 8:00 PM UTCPage 3 of 11 in Carina Chocano
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