Robert Lloyd

I ran across Blind Date by accident, as upon an accident, channel surfing in a New Orleans hotel room, and though I could have been out drinking Hurricanes or eating beignets or losing all my money at the big new casino instead, I watched it until the very end. As......

Photo by Will HartThe Corner, a six-part HBO miniseries about drugs and dependence set within a few square bad blocks of West Baltimore, is a nearly perfect piece of work, and I say “nearly” mainly in order to sound credible. Its occasional lapses in tone — as when a statistic......

A moment of silence, of sadness, of fist shaking, over NBC’s cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, as much a candidate as any for the best program on television and the victim, as so many shows before it, of the numbers-hungry priorities of a big electric billboard that occasionally disguises itself......

In our current perceptual grammar, video looks like life, while film, which used to be used to bring the far corners of the real world close, has become a distancing medium, the stuff of which art is made. Where film is glamorous and mysterious, videotape is just what we use......

THAT TELEVISION IS LARGELY STYROFOAM PEANUTS, old sweatsocks and banana peels is debated by no one; even friends of the medium, praising the best it has to offer, tend to point out how much better that best is than what surrounds it. It would be astonishing if it were otherwise......

We never really get over childhood, which is what keeps psychoanalysts in business, and perhaps helps explain why Malcolm in the Middle, a new TV show about a precociously cynical 10-year-old, was in its second week the most-watched comedy or drama among viewers ages 18 to 49. Fox has duly......

As the Film Society of Lincoln Center mounts a complete retrospective of his work, Frederick Wiseman delivers his 30th documentary to PBS, his long-standing patron and primary outlet. Though Wiseman’s films (from the recent Public Housing running back three decades to the Emmy-winning Hospital and Law and Order) are not......