Robert Abele

My guess is there's at least one moment for every male contestant in the hot seat on Fox's lie-detector game show, The Moment of Truth, when they think inside, "Why aren't I shouting 'No deal' to Howie Mandel right now in front of a hundred suitcase-holding babes instead?"Although we all......

It was a loaded, extreme-weather, sports-TV weekend, especially if you not only follow football, but tennis too. The Australian Open, at its two-week midpoint, served up a super Saturday of grueling, grinding, all-time-memorable five-setters, creating tons of drama — and requiring us Pacific Coasters with DVRs to have at least......

While the war between writers and producers continues, threatening to turn television into a barren creative landscape — a grim vision of the future, indeed — Fox unholsters one of its last weapons in its arsenal of not-yet-seen prime-time scripted drama. Of course, it’s a franchise rehash. Old is the......

David Letterman came back on the air last week and made having his writers back seem like he didn’t have writers — which was funny. After 25 years Letterman understands that irony abhors sleekness. Jay Leno didn’t have his writers back, but delivered self-scripted monologues to keep up the appearance......

Television-series actors have the unenviable task of repeating the same emotional cues over and over and over again, all while not letting on that in any real-world situation, they’d feel like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day and probably go nuts. Patrick Dempsey once jokingly mentioned during an interview that......

Yuletide Youth, Hold the Sugar If you missed the gracefully complex six-hour Italian saga The Best of Youth when it enjoyed a critically acclaimed run in arthouse theaters in 2005, the Sundance Channel has picked it up for a Christmas-week airing over four nights from Tuesday to Friday. Until it......