[Editor's note: About once a year, I invite a Rowan University student whose class assignments I find exceptionally well written to contribute a blog post to TVWW, giving us a young adult's perspective on TV. This year's deserving guest columnist is Shannon Farrell -- and her subject is a 53-year-old TV series she calls "a modern Star Trek"... -- David Bianculli]

2016

Mar

WELLIVER REVELS IN THE FLAWS OF HARRY BOSCH, ANOTHER TOUGH GUY ROLE By David Hinckley

L.A. Detective Harry Bosch, as played by Titus Welliver, figures he can beat most criminals. Overcoming himself is a different kettle of demons, and that’s the adversary Harry is confronting in the second season of the taut and engaging series Bosch, which just dropped on Amazon...

2016

Mar

'NASHVILLE' IS SOAP, SO HERE IS WHAT THE WEDDING MIGHT MEAN By David Hinckley

Nothing says “Thank you!” to the fans of a TV show like a wedding between two of their favorite, most sympathetic characters...

2016

Mar

2016 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The first-round games are all over the place today, the first full day of action for the 2016 NCAA basketball tournament. CBS arrives first, broadcasting its four Thursday games beginning at noon ET. TruTV has two games beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET, and another two beginning at 7 p.m. ET. TNT shows four games consecutively, beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET, and TBS does the same, beginning at 2 p.m. ET. That’s 16 games today, including two top seeds facing two No. 16s. On TNT at 4 p.m. ET, the No.

2016

Mar

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Tonight, the remaining six competitors get to sing two songs apiece – both solos this time, rather than a solo and a duet – before facing the music after performing the music. Then it’s whittled down to the Top 5.

2016

Mar

PREY By David Bianculli

Jules Hope is in prison – but hopes to get out this week, thanks to a plan that has one of the prison officers coerced into helping Jules escape.

2016

Mar

BASKETS By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new episode, Chip is in Paris – still not speaking the language, still trying to ply his clown trade, and getting in trouble with the French police when he attempts to do so without a street permit. I suppose, since he’s in Paris, he’ll rue the day…

2016

Mar

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode features a sketch called “Lance Is Smart” – because, suddenly, he starts wearing glasses, which seems to change everything.

2016

Mar

QUALITY TO BURN: 'THE AMERICANS' RETURNS TO FX By Ed Bark

Lavishly praised by TV critics but still ludicrously ignored by major awards bodies, FX’s The Americans if anything is better than ever in the early stages of Season 4...

2016

Mar

FX'S 'THE AMERICANS' SURVIVES AND THRIVES, JOINING SOME OF THE BEST By David Hinckley

Okay, I confess: FX’s The Americans has maintained its death-defying tension longer and better than I thought it could...

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