Robert Lloyd

Enterprise On the 22nd-century Earth of Enterprise -- UPN‘s new Star Trek prequel -- there is no hunger, no disease, no war, and so it is necessary to go into space, the final frontier, to find some; humanity having got its act together, badness has become strictly an extraterrestrial condition......

Here we are in the early days of World War III, and television -- the part of it that is actually made up, as opposed to the part that is merely unbelievable -- is crawling with spies and spooks and secret agents. In three new series (The Agency, Alias and......

With Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as executive co-producers, Band of Brothers, HBO‘s 10-hour new-fall-season $120-million blockbuster World War II miniseries, is for all intents and purposes the television sequel to Saving Private Ryan. (World War II, of course, was itself a sequel; the third in that series has yet......

Courtesy Cartoon Network Television is many things, some of which are not even bad for you. But one thing it is rarely is lovely to behold. The dry visual protocols set in place in the medium’s infancy, when screens were small and pictures black and white and the spatial template......

Photo by Doug HyunJames Dean would have been 70 this year, but he drove fast and died young, leaving the most beautiful kind of corpse — one made of color and light, fixed in time and permanently on display, an animated icon of martyred post-adolescence. The crash that killed him......

Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim, a cartoon show about a hapless hubristic overeager megalomaniacal paranoid alien who goes undercover as an elementary school student (he is small of stature) to research the weaknesses of mankind preparatory to its enslavement, hit the air at the end of March; already it has inspired dozens......

The Wizard of Oz will air on the Turner Classic Movies network July 3 and again on the 4th, nonthematically attached to Independence Day, as in years past it was to Easter and Thanksgiving. Like most old movies, it has become television for all intents and purposes, though at the......