As the networks release their schedules for the 2012-13 TV season, we'll collect them here — so you can return, as need be, to make sense of things and plan your upcoming viewing schedule.vAlthough, to be honest, time slots aren't as critical as they were in the old days. But finding the good shows quickly — that's even more important, and tricky, than ever...we aim to help...

2012

May

20 YEARS AFTER CARSON QUIT LATE-NIGHT TV, HEEEEERE’S JOHNNY! – ON PBS By David Bianculli

Later this month, on May 22, it’ll be 20 years since Johnny Carson said farewell as the longest and greatest host of NBC’s Tonight Show. As an early salute, Monday’s American Masters on PBS presents a two-hour profile, and appreciation, of the Great Carsoni…

2012

May

NBC'S NEW FALL SHOWS: FIRST CLIPS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli

NBC announced Monday its projected schedule for the fall 2012 TV season. We offer quick, bite-sized video samples of the network’s new offerings, along with our own very first impressions. There looks to be at least one winner here…

2012

May

JOHNNY CARSON AND THE POTATO CHIP COLLECTION By Eric Gould

In Bianculli's Blog, David Bianculli reviews Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, the PBS American Masters profile of one of the greats of television talk. Carson conducted thousands of interviews, and on October 16, 1987, this included Myrtle Young, with her potato chip collection...

2012

May

1993: CBS SAYS GOODBYE TO 'KNOTS LANDING' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1993 marked the final broadcast of Knots Landing. The CBS series - which was built around the lives of four couples living in a southern California cul-de-sac - was presented as a spinoff of the network's popular series, Dallas...

2012

May

ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: When worlds collide: If it can happen on Fringe, why not on Once Upon a Time? In tonight’s episode, the somewhat clean division between the fairy tale world and the world of Storybrooke begins to get murky, as Emma (Jennifer Morrison) has to make a fateful decision about what to do next, in and out of town, to pursue justice, and vanquish evil, as she sees it. Expect a cliffhanger as juicy as any bright red apple.

2012

May

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: After eight seasons – two terms, as Eva Longoria said Friday night on Real Time with Bill Maher – Marc Cherry’s series presents its final two hours. It’s been said, a lot, that this show’s best years are long behind it, but I’m been watching throughout, and that’s not so. This season’s story lines with Felicity Huffman’s Lynette (separated from, but still loving, husband Tom), Marcia Cross’ Bree (falling off the wagon a

2012

May

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: "SHERLOCK" By David Bianculli

The Hounds of Baskerville, this second of three mysteries in the Season 2 cycle of Sherlock is the weakest of the three – but that doesn’t mean that it’s not entertaining. It is, especially the twists that modernize Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Hound of the Baskervilles. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman star as, respectively, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Check local listings.

2012

May

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

So many characters barely escaped death in last week’s episode that you know tonight’s hour is going to be a killer. Or, at least, feature one, or more. There are escapes and power plays all over the place, each threatening to upend the status quo of the increasingly volatile kingdoms under the throne. Prisoners have escaped, subjects have defied their leaders – and mythical creatures have been stolen. “Find my dragons!” Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys orders tonig

2012

May

MAD MEN By David Bianculli

This season, Jessica Pare, as Megan Draper, has delivered some of the best moments in this or any season of Mad Men. She sang seductively to husband Don, in French, at a party that left him mortified and angry. When he was angered, again, by her dislike of the orange sherbet at Howard Johnson’s, she sarcastically shoveled spoonfuls of it it into her mouth like Harold defiantly ate his beets in Harold and Maude. Then, last week, after Don and company talked about hiring a group that sound

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