Brian Lowry

Former Fox reality guru Mike Darnell should experience deja vu watching "I Wanna Marry Harry," which recycles one of his favorite dating-show themes, employed in "Joe Millionaire" and "Who Wants...

Fox has finally put on a drama about a big, boisterous Latino family. It's just too bad that they have to be murderous drug dealers. Clearly deriving some of its...

Desperate times call for desperate scheduling. And in the case of network comedy, that means breaking with longstanding traditions in seeking to invigorate a signature TV genre that is struggling...

Tom Brokaw spent more than 20 years in a pitched three-way battle as anchor of the " NBC Nightly News ." Yet his greatest legacy, frankly, might be how classily...

It's unclear whether Michael Sam will realize his dream to recover a fumble in the National Football League, but he -- and the Oprah Winfrey Network -- have recovered from...

The CW is obviously playing a somewhat different game than the other broadcast networks with its 10-hour schedule, but even so, the channel might have what looks like the surest...

Producer-director Joe Berlinger is not exactly a natural as a TV personality. Yet his show for Al Jazeera America, "The System With Joe Berlinger," is a natural for television --...

With its amalgamation of "NCIS" and "CSI" spinoffs on its new fall schedule, CBS appears to have resigned itself to being a butt of jokes within the TV industry, as...

Few media figures have felt more conspicuously ahead of their time than George Plimpton, who brought a mix of journalism, hucksterism and showmanship together in one aristocratic package -- like...

Not to place undue pressure on "The Blacklist" season finale, but with NBC having made the show the linchpin of its 2014-15 hopes and dreams, it would seemingly have behooved...