I"€™ll admit it: I"€™m unfashionably fond of Dr. Phil. At least early on"€”before he got caught up in shady stuff such as trying to brand his family as the Osmonds of advice"€”his folksy football-coach routine was a welcome ...

A relic of a long-gone era of “happy endings” and “family viewing,” the real-life Love Boat’s final voyage was marred by a perfectly po-mo, Irony Age tragedy. Last week, two scrapyard workers were ...

Yes, there really is a Burbank. As a kid, I assumed that the smallish California city with the “beautiful downtown” was just a cheesy Tonight Show punch line, not a real place. Today, all is not well in the “Media ...

What's the female equivalent of "€œI"€™ll never get an erection again"€? That happened to me when I found out actor Alan Rickman"€”upon whose lap I’d often fantasized sitting while he read aloud from the Manhattan ...

I get called a “racist” a lot, but one offhand remark I made during Obama’s 2008 campaign drew more flak than usual. I had simply wondered why the candidate’s admirers held up his parentage"€”a (ditzy) white ...

Cable TV's Oxygen channel was founded in part by Oprah Winfrey, but it appears to have finally jumped the shvartze with a proposed program called All My Babies"€™ Mamas. Originally slated to appear in the spring, the one-hour special ...

It’s happening again. Once more I begin to like a new TV show and it is canceled in a single season. My affliction goes back to the mid-70s, when Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Ellery Queen bit the dust in rapid succession. This ...

When MTV’s The Real World debuted in 1992, people saw it for what it was: a silly bit of voyeurism for a bunch of stupid kids. Twenty years later, the genre it hatched is dominating prime time, and the audiences are a helluva lot ...