WGBH remakes A Room with a View
If you think Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, and Judi Dench are all hopelessly overrated, then WGBH/ITV has your TV movie.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | April 09, 2008

Life in cartoon motion

Politics and ohter mistakes
Welcome to the Public Broadcasting System’s new show, What Were You Thinking, You Idiot?
By AL DIAMON | January 30, 2008

Dancing queens

BBC America’s Torchwood
Conceived as a spinoff from the vintage BBC kids’ show Doctor Who , Torchwood has since come into its own
By JAMES PARKER | January 22, 2008

Masterpieces and mysteries

‘The Complete Jane Austen’ on WGBH, and making book on the Austen detectives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 14, 2008

The Austen adaptations

By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 09, 2008

Lost World

MTV’s The Real World: Sydney
Moments into the first episode of MTV’s The Real World: Sydney, Dunbar Flinn proudly confesses, “I summed everyone up quickly — who’s worth looking at, and who’s not.”
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | August 15, 2007

Reality ingenue

Lauren Conrad on MTV's The Hills
What is it about MTV’s top-rated reality show The Hills , premiering its third season August 13th?
By ELLEE DEAN | August 13, 2007

Judee Sill

Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973 | Water
If Judee Sill’s story isn’t fodder for a Lifetime TV movie, then nothing is.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | August 07, 2007

Background chatter

Ricky Gervais’s hilarious Extras
Thanks, Ricky Gervais, for getting the dread “A” word into the open: ATHEIST!
By GERALD PEARY | February 06, 2007

Smart girls

Veronica Mars and 30 Rock go to the head of the class
In its third year, Veronica Mars , late of UPN, joins the new CW network as the most critically praised show on its roster.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | December 12, 2006

Houses of pain

A tough week in reality TV
Stay tuned, motherfuckers. Watch a preview for the second season of Meerkat Manor (YouTube)
By JAMES PARKER | October 19, 2006

Why must I be a teenager in love?

Degrassi and South of Nowhere put the dirt back in teen soaps
Hysterical teenagers don’t edit their journals to make them sound less like life. Neither does Degrassi . A tribute to the couples of Degrassi (YouTube) Teen screams: five other shows that pushed the envelope. By Ryan Stewart
By SHARON STEEL | October 04, 2006

Deconstructing Dwight

How NBC's The Office silenced the snobs
Nobody expected this.
By RYAN STEWART | September 26, 2006

Mick and more

The TV stars — and Jagger — come home to roost
Everyone’s coming out of the woodwork this season. Ted Danson, Calista Flockhart, John Lithgow, and Amanda Peet are among the actors prepping for an effusive back-to-TV homecoming, and even Mick Jagger will be on screen.
By SHARON STEEL | September 19, 2006

Bookworms

Sketchbooks at Harvard, dead bird at the Gardner
“Under Cover” is one of those lucid, edifying shows the Harvard museums excel at.
By GREG COOK | August 28, 2006

Earning his wings

The career of Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo is only 6’3”, but he plays a lot bigger on screen.
By RYAN STEWART | August 11, 2006

Revenge of the nerds

Three gamer geeks from Needham made a vid-cast that was slagged mercilessly on the web — and then MTV called
GameLife has a certain something: an unabashed geekiness that’s real, engaging, and endearingly awkward. GameLife : Episode Six (YouTube)
By MIKE MILIARD | August 09, 2006

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