Brian Lowry

Whoopi Goldberg wears so many hats it's easy to forget that she can be a pretty fine actress when she gets the opportunity. Such is the case with "A Day...

HBO's latest front-row seat to a theatrical one-man play shifts from Mike Tyson to Billy Crystal, translating the latter's comic memoir "700 Sundays" into a TV special. Nostalgic and deeply...

Morgan Spurlock 's "Inside Man" returned to CNN April 13. The " Super Size Me " filmmaker embedded himself with paparazzi in the opening hour, " Celebrity ." Did the...

Look at it from TV Guide Network's perspective: The channel can't afford "Modern Family" reruns, much less a scripted approximation. So it has replicated a small part of that hit...

PBS' "The Pioneers of Television" returns for a fourth season, offering more fuzzy nostalgia, and squandered opportunity. While it's something of a kick to celebrate programs from TV's past, the...

As good as "The Bletchley Circle" was the first time around, there was reason to worry that a second adventure would risk stretching this clever little premise beyond its expiration...

At times "Californication" feels like the series Showtime never got around to canceling. So the fact the raunchy comedy has reached a seventh and final season characterizes it as a...

The current golden age of sports documentaries hits a tin-plated patch this week with two flawed if interesting entries: "Bad Boys," ESPN's nostalgic "30 for 30" trip to hoops heaven,...

Skeptics will wonder how long CBS had Stephen Colbert in its back pocket, given how smoothly the baton pass worked out. But whatever the back story, the network has found...

The celebrity power fueling "Years of Living Dangerously," Showtime's multipart, James Cameron-Arnold Schwarzenegger-Jerry Weintraub-produced documentary devoted to sounding alarms about climate change, is inevitably a double-edged sword. Big-name stars obviously...