Brendan Bernhard

Photo by John P. Filo It’s hard to go wrong with America’s Next Top Model (UPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.), now in its second season and probably the most enjoyable reality show on TV. Gorgeous girls, fragile egos, wild clothes and bitchy fashionistas of both sexes blend into one deliciously addictive......

Arrested Development (Fox, Sundays at 9:30 p.m.) is a quirky, clever and occasionally funny mockumentary-style sitcom which I haven’t quite managed to make myself feel enthusiastic about, though it’s obviously far brainier than most of what’s on TV. In a way, it reminds me of one of those satirical Gore......

Photos courtesy PBS (top) and FOX Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance, a splashy four-hour epic about the infamous Florentine banking family that helped spawn Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Galileo, is PBS’s answer to The Sopranos. Not much of an answer, some might say, but worth checking out nonetheless. Airing......

If you can get through the first 10 minutes of In Search of Shakespeare without gagging, there’s a fair chance you’ll end up watching all four one-hour episodes. But those first moments are tricky, because you’ll need to immunize yourself to Michael Wood, the presenter and creator of this BBC......

Photo courtesy NBC Donald Trump, New York’s real estate king, is reality-television nirvana. With rock-star lips, a girlfriend who might have been ordered from a catalog, and hair that looks as if it was dropped on his head from a tree, he’s the embodiment of America’s lust for self-perpetuating fame......

If you enjoy the kind of reality show that actually feels real, then Airline (A&E, Mondays at 10 p.m.), about people who work for Southwest Airlines, may be for you. Me, I never want to fly Southwest again, or watch any more episodes of this program: It’s like having an......

Photo by Carole Segal/Showtime The L Word, a new series on Showtime (debuting Sunday, January 18), is about lesbian life in Los Angeles. It is also about “lifestyle” life in Los Angeles, which is to say, it’s about people who seem to have been invented by the editor of a......

Photo by Ron Batzdorff Larry David, television’s grouchy comic genius, is back — or will be in a couple of weeks, when Curb Your Enthusiasm begins its fourth season (HBO, January 4). I suspect I’m not the only television critic who eagerly slipped the review copy into the VCR the......