Are you ready for some new networks? Well, actually, old networks, reinventing themselves in search of new viewers. History International is now H2. And on Tuesday (Oct. 4), Discovery's HD Theater becomes Velocity. HI hasn't actually been "international" for awhile now, unless you think Secret Missions of the Civil War has a global focus. But it's probably now more "history" than ever...

2011

Sep

2011 FALL TV DOLDRUMS ALMOST OVER -- AFTER A FEW MORE NOT-SO-GREAT DAYS AHEAD By David Bianculli

Be patient a little longer. TV is about to improve greatly with a sudden crop of exciting new offerings -- starting Sunday with a sudden glut of quality TV. The newest Ken Burns documentary epic on PBS, Prohibition, begins Sunday, as do Showtime's new Homeland series and the same network's Season 6 premiere of Dexter. But between now and then, we've got four new less than superb prime-time premieres with which to contend...

2011

Sep

FIFTY YEARS AGO SUNDAY, NBC UNVEILED TWO 'WONDERFUL' SHOWS -- ONE WITH A MOUSE, ONE WITH A MOOSE By David Bianculli

The TV fall season is an annual tradition that, anemic though it seems today, has endured for half a century -- but 50 years ago, broadcast TV gave us a lot more about which to be enthusiastic. In 1961, by this point, CBS already had introduced the brilliant courtroom drama The Defenders, and had Carl Reiner's superb The Dick Van Dyke Show waiting in the wings for an early October debut...

2011

Sep

CALENDAR: NETWORK/CABLE FALL PREMIERE DATES By Diane Werts

TVWW has listings when your fave shows returned or will be returning, or did/will hit the air for the first time. (In which case, they're probably not your faves yet)...

2011

Sep

ABC'S 'PAN AM' HAS BUMPY ARRIVAL By Alan Pergament

ABC's Pan Am arrives on schedule opposite CBS's The Good Wife this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. It isn't exactly a soft landing for the pre-feminist 1960s stewardesses and jet age pilots who are circling the globe when the women offered coffee, tea or milk with a smile, and occasionally added something extra...

2011

Sep

ON TV, MEET THE NEW BOSS -- DIFFERENT THAN THE OLD BOSS By David Bianculli

In addition to all the other new series and fresh changes in the 2011 fall TV lineup, there were two very noteworthy -- and very impressive -- changes of the guard on network TV. Ted Danson stepped in as the new head of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, and James Spader became the new CEO running things at NBC's The Office...

2011

Sep

FOUR NEW SERIES PREMIERE TONIGHT, BUT THE RETURNEES ARE BETTER By David Bianculli

Four new series are added to the 2011 Fall TV lineup Thursday night: Person of Interest on CBS, Whitney and Prime Suspect on NBC, and, last but least, Charlie's Angels on ABC. You won't find any of them in Thursday's Best Bets, though -- and here, briefly, is why not...

2011

Sep

'WHITNEY' GETS OFF TO A SMART 'N' SNAPPY START By Ed Bark

NBC has branded Whitney Cummings this fall's "It" girl. This doesn't necessarily mean she's the best thing about the new sitcom Whitney (Thursday at 9:30 p.m. ET), although she's still quite a bit better than good. The revelation here is Chris D'Elia, who plays Whitney's live-in boyfriend, Alex...

2011

Sep

NBC'S 'PRIME SUSPECT' IS AN APPLAUSE-WORTHY ENCORE By Ed Bark

How dare they try to do a new Prime Suspect series without Helen Mirren as put-upon, hard-boiled London detective Jane Tennison? Well, NBC takes that dare Thursday at 10 p.m. ET and does a very decent job of it, in a Manhattan-based version starring Pennsylvanian Maria Bello as tough-minded detective Jane Timoney...

2011

Sep

'REVENGE': PRETTY EVIL SOAP SUDS By Alan Pergament

Who doesn't love Emily VanCamp? The Canadian actress has been adorable ever since she hit the American TV screen as a teenager on Everwood, the WB series in which she played Amy Abbott, love interest of the emotionally scarred Ephram. And now she gets her star turn on "Revenge", a new ABC drama that the producers told TV critics is loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo...

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