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2012
May
17
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Jack and Avery (Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Banks) renew their vows in this season finale, while Liz (Tina Fey) gets a chance to advance on her romantic front as well – but, typically, sees the glass as half empty. At best.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
17
 
 
SEASON FINALE: In last week’s episode, Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) was fired from his job as a police department consultant, and seemingly defeated, at least mentally, by his serial-killer nemesis, Red John. In tonight’s Season 4 finale, Jane takes to the road, ends up in Vegas, meets a cocktail waitress (Emmanuelle Chriqui), and things move on from there. Just don’t expect them to end happily – or for this season to end without some surprising drama. For an appreciation
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
17
 
 
For the first time in 13 years, Conan O’Brien visits this program as Letterman’s guest. (Their previous Late Show get-together is shown at left.) O’Brien is in New York for the TBS upfronts, and now hosts Conan for that network. But since his previous Late Show appearance in 1999, O’Brien became the host of The Tonight Show on NBC – a job Letterman coveted, but never got, and lost to Jay Leno. Then, within a year, O’Brien lost the Tonight job, too – to
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
17
 
 
This week of shows from Scotland has been so much fun to watch. There’s a true, almost absurd variety of elements presented each night, from quick comedy blackouts to lengthy, eventually intimate interviews. By now, if you’ve tuned in, you know what I mean. If not, it’s not too late to experience it. And today is Craig's 50th birthday, so tune in and celebrate! And read my exclusive TVWW INTERVIEW with him, just posted today, HERE.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
17
 
 
No TV network worries in the least about being accused of the latter. And there's really no upside for a TV critic to upbraid NBC for canceling one of its very few hits, Harry's Law, because it didn't appeal to the "right" audience...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
About this time a year ago, I watched Patrick Jane shoot and kill a man who claimed to be his nemesis — and like millions of fans of CBS’s The Mentalist, I was left wondering how creator Bruno Heller and his writers could keep Jane out of prison...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
SEINFELD: THE COMPLETE SERIES – It may seem unnecessary, because Seinfeld remains such ripe, low-hanging fruit on syndicated TV, but there’s something glorious about having all this brilliance of this 1990-98 NBC series in one smartly packaged box set. All 180 episodes, 32 DVDs, extras, a coffee table book (remember that episode?)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
CBS's plans for the fall 2012 TV season include moving Two and a Half Men and The Mentalist to new nights, and introducing four new series: three dramas, and one comedy. Once again, we offer first impressions, and first available video samples...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
On this day in 2004, CBS presented the miniseries, Helter Skelter, a film based on the 1969 murder spree that left seven people — including actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and supermarket president Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary — dead. Jeremy Davies (Justified, Lost) portrayed convicted killer Charles Manson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
16
 
 
Brick (Atticus Shaffer) benefits from a new arrangement with his mom, entering into what he calls a fragile ecosystem: snitching on his siblings in exchange for candy. He’s driven by the treats – and if you are, too, this sitcom is a TV treat of the first order.