LA Weekly

New on DVD: Hiya, Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, May 7, 2008, 11:57 am

Attention-span hell or mother's little helper?

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:52 pm

New York—based filmmaker Jennifer Fox has many issues as a modern woman in her early…

PBS's Carrier, Life and War Aboard the USS Nimitz

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:55 am

I’m three episodes into the 10-part PBS documentary series Carrier, which runs in double segments…

BBC's Gavin & Stacey Heading to NBC?

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 1:12 pm

A fine romance

Rock the Cradle: Inherit the Wind

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 3:14 pm

MTV's new celeb-kid talent search

Green Screen at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Apr 2, 2008, 2:15 pm

Lessons in Slime

Hot Lesbian Logic on The L Word

Robert Abele

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:50 am

At the end of the fifth season, it's as loopy and luscious as ever

Bush’s War: Frontline's “Worst of” Clip Show

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 12:00 pm

What not to war

End of The Wire

ROBERT ABELE

Mon, Mar 10, 2008, 1:00 pm

Jimmy McNulty and company take a last look at the Baltimore cityscape. TV may never see another series like it

Oprah's Big Gives

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 2:35 pm

Some philanthr-Oprah

Oscar Interruptus

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:15 am

Acceptance speeches: Accept them

The Equalizer Returns

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 5:22 pm

Pudgy loner with a handgun now on DVD

Lewis Black's History of the Joke

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 6:00 pm

Why did the chicken cross the Appian Way?

The Moment of Truth; Bernard and Doris

Robert Abele

Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 4:55 pm

Fox's lie-detector game show; Fiennes, Sarandon as the ultimate butler and heiress

Extreme Sports Weekend

Robert Abele

Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 11:57 am

It was a loaded, extreme-weather, sports-TV weekend, especially if you not only follow football, but…

Celeb Rehab's Surreal Aftermath

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Jan 16, 2008, 6:00 pm

Picking up the pieces of reality excess

Late Night's Reluctant Hosts

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Jan 9, 2008, 11:40 am

Must the show go on?

Medium: Shock Therapy

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 12:00 pm

Television-series actors have the unenviable task of repeating the same emotional cues over and over…

The Best of Youth

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 6:00 am

If you missed the gracefully complex six-hour Italian saga The Best of Youth when it…

Ricky Gervais’s Extras Season Finale

Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 11:00 am

The opening shot of the Extras series finale airing on HBO Sunday marks another hilarious…

Nimrod Nation: Their Town

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:00 am

This just in: a documentary series that doesn’t involve disaster, disease or dysfunction

Frontline: On Our Watch

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Nov 14, 2007, 11:30 am

The sins of inaction

The Blair Switch Project

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Nov 7, 2007, 6:00 pm

Situational Illogic

ROBERT ABELE

Wed, Oct 31, 2007, 4:00 pm

Uncurbed enthusiasm for Larry David’s new season offerings