Robert Lloyd

Photo by Michel Euler, AP/Wide WorldWITH TWO DOZEN CONSECUTIVE MIDNIGHTS BEAMED INTO every time zone, the multichannel worldwide 24-hour television special that accompanied the turn of the year, century and/or millennium offered, for that day at least, a glimmer -- or facsimile -- of Marshall McLuhan's global village, the switched-on......

And so we end the 20th century with the question Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? And they‘re asking it all over the world, the original U.K. game show having been franchised to Russia, Australia, South Africa, Spain, Poland, Denmark and Israel in addition to the United States, where it......

The oldest stories are about broken rules. In the Judeo-Christian version of history, as soon as there are two people in the world, one of them is up to mischief and the other one, much like Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity or John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice,......

Even before I first set foot upon the island of Manhattan, at the tender age of 20, I was well-schooled in its particulars, its criss-cross arterial pulse and narrow verticality, its characters and occupations, its place in the American plan. Television taught me. While the TV suburbs were most often......

”When I think about the pay scale we worked under back then,“ says Michael McKean, remembering the early ‘70s and the bad old good old days of his comic alma mater, the Credibility Gap, ”even adjusting for inflation we weren’t making anything. But we had some funny adventures. We opened......

Photo by Paul DrinkwaterAARON SORKIN'S THE WEST WING, A WASHINGTON fantasy set in reaches of the White House you only read about in depositions, is a show about people who love their work -- an ode to long hours, interrupted sleep and professional single-mindedness. "I have nothing to do!" wails......

ANY TIME IS A GOOD TIME TO BE YOUNG, ELSE Ponce de León would never have left Spain, but rarely has it seemed so necessary. Even as boomers strive to sweat, cut or simply define "middle age" out of existence, the chronological ideal -- as expressed through TV and movies,......

Hollywood‘s love-hate relationship with its bad self is at the heart of, in back of and all over the bright new Fox sitcom Action, much in the news, even before it debuted, for its nasty language (bleeped, largely, though most anyone over the age of 10 not living in religious......