Robert Lloyd

The Division, a new series from Lifetime Television for Women (to use the formal address), created by Debra Joy Levine (Lois and Clark, Any Day Now), concerns a group of San Francisco police detectives, statistically improbable in their foxiness and youth and overwhelming glamorous femininity. Not that there aren’t glamorous......

Ken Burns’ Jazz is here, and perhaps you have already been caught in its enormous net. Just this morning, waiting at Starbucks for my 2 percent latte half gainer with a double twist, I found stacked on the counter copies of a Jazz ”Viewer‘s Guide,“ which was really just a......

Ken Burns’ Jazz is here, and perhaps you have already been caught in its enormous net. Just this morning, waiting at Starbucks for my 2 percent latte half gainer with a double twist, I found stacked on the counter copies of a Jazz ”Viewer‘s Guide,“ which was really just a......

TV comedy, if you factor out variety shows (as history already has) and funny home videos, may be divided, broadly speaking, into vehicles (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Home Improvement, Pauly) and ensemble pieces (M*A*S*H, Cheers, That ‘70s Show). Where ensemble pieces begin with an idea (a subject, a setting,......

I’d like to say before we start that, in spite of all my professional expectations, the new network season does not suck. It doesn‘t even nearly suck. Some shows in particular suck, of course, and some are not so much sucky as just transparent -- cultural placeholders whose negative effect......

The WB‘s Grosse Pointe is a new sitcom from Darren Star that parodies both the substance and production of his own earlier creation Beverly Hills 90210, and it is amusing and well-made, a gently mordant cousin to last year’s Hollywood backstager Action -- and, for its sweeter tone, has a......

And here we are again, poised on the brink of a ”new fall season,“ a little delayed by the Olympics but still the traditional beginning of the TV year in spite of the fact that, especially since cable began to flex its muscle, new shows premiere now all the time......