If March Madness is an annual illness, TV, satellite and computer technology have combined to make it a pop-culture pandemic. There are 64 games in the NCAA men's basketball brackets -- and if you subscribe to the right cable or satellite system, purchase the right package, or have signed up for a free VIP pass to watch streaming video on your computer at home or (gasp!) at work, it's all available...

2008

Mar

CHANGES ARE COMING TO THIS SITE... GLACIALLY, BUT SURELY By David Bianculli

I'm so grateful, truly, for every single one of you who takes the time to visit this site, that I want to apologize for the delays in making TV WORTH WATCHING every bit as dynamic and interactive as originally envisioned. But we're getting there... or, at least, getting closer...

2008

Mar

WHEN GOOD SHOWS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE By David Bianculli

The FX drama series "The Riches," about husband-and-wife con-artist gypsies who steal the identities of a well-to-do dead couple, returns for its second season tonight at 10 ET. It's a wonderful series, but it made me wonder: When, exactly, did we start rooting for the gypsies, tramps and thieves in our weekly TV dramas?...

2008

Mar

IT'S SOME LAUGHING MATTER: THE FIRST POST-STRIKE SITCOMS ARE BACK By David Bianculli

When the writers' strike ended and production resumed on TV shows that had been stalled by the work stoppage, the rollout of new episodes was expected to occur in several stages: fully staffed talk shows and "Saturday Night Live" first, then sitcoms, then the dramas. Tonight, with the return of the full CBS comedy lineup, we finally enter phase two...

2008

Mar

HBO'S "JOHN ADAMS" MAKES IT THREE FOR THREE FOR TOM HANKS By David Bianculli

Tom Hanks is a movie star now, and has starred in some great ones. But he started in TV and, as an executive producer, understands it better than most. He knows, for example, that the miniseries is one of the medium's most important genres - and knows what to do with it...

2008

Mar

ABC'S "LOST" IS GREAT, BUT ITS "ENHANCED LOST" IS GRATING By David Bianculli

The writers' strike may explain it, but doesn't excuse it. The "enhanced" hour of "Lost" that precedes tonight's new hour of "Lost" is even worse than a week-old rerun...

2008

Mar

LEWIS BLACK DOESN'T TRIUMPH OVER "EVIL" By David Bianculli

Lewis Black is a very funny fellow. His caustic comic approach wears well, and his outrage normally is aimed at precisely the right targets. As a Daily Show correspondent, and the star of his own standup comedy specials, Black has been reliably entertaining. But Lewis Black's "Root of All Evil," which premieres tonight isn't nearly as funny as it should be. It's not Black enough...

2008

Mar

DIGGING DEEPLY INTO HBO'S "IN TREATMENT" By David Bianculli

The HBO series "In Treatment," which launched in January, will conclude its first season at the end of the month - and once again, TV has found a novel way to tell a story. Novel, as in more like a novel than anything else...

2008

Mar

WHEN IS IT FAIR, AND UNFAIR, TO REVEAL TV SECRETS?: TWO CASE STUDIES By David Bianculli

I've written plenty about the final episode of The Wire,the excellent David Simon drama that concluded last night - but was careful not to reveal any secrets or discuss the ending. Now that it's been televised, is it fair game? Or is there still a "I've recorded it, but haven't seen it" faction in play?...

2008

Mar

SAYING GOODBYE TO "THE WIRE" By David Bianculli

David Simon's tantalizingly multilayered HBO drama series ends Sunday night at 9 with an expanded final episode - one that starts with the major learning of the duplicity of his own police force, and ends with one of the series' end-of-season trademark musical montages...

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