Robert Abele

I could swear that the debut of Windfall ran about 26 times. Just switching to NBC almost any night last week would practically ensure that you’d see it. So does that mean the network will interpret the show’s ratings numbers as a whole or split them up over various nights,......

The colors pop and the stupidity glistens on MTV’s insanely watchable new reality soap The Hills, in which Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County star Lauren Conrad — hot, blond and appealingly neurotic — cruises up the coast to Los Angeles to bag an internship at Teen Vogue. The dangerous......

There was another gripping reality closer last week, although you’re forgiven for not noticing if you suffered from McPhatigue or had overdosed on Soul Patrol. I’m talking about the finale of Bravo’s Top Chef, which, in its emphasis on showcasing talent as well as readily packaged heroes and villains, assuredly......

Ihadn’t watched Will & Grace for a couple of years, but picked it up again a few months ago in anticipation of the finale, just to see how this intermittently maddening and punchy sitcom would finesse its exit: salty tears or salty dialogue? Both, it turns out, hewing to the......

As a longtime, devoted fan of The OC and That ’70s Show, I was expecting major events last Thursday night: The OC was closing its fourth, weakest season by promising to kill off a main character. And That ’70s Show, which had maintained a happy, lovable irrelevance for at least......

With David Blaine getting crapped on for seeming to abandon magic entirely in his quest to be a traveling boy in a plastic bubble — I see movie remake! — I tuned in to CBS’s Keith Barry: Extraordinary to see if the boyish illusionist from Ireland intended to actually entertain......

I had a bizarre disagreement with someone last week about 24. We’re both fans, but while I believe the show is having its best year, she said she’s ready to sign off on it. Her reason? Character development. Or, more precisely, character assassination, in the form of killing off beloved......