Hank Stuever

New year, new schedule fillers - and Fox doesn't waste any time reminding viewers that the promises of mid-season TV can be a mixed bag. "The Mick," a predictably crude...

We're more likely to remember the peak TV era for its quantity than its quality, looking back on these years as a period in which there was too much to...

Every crumb of Netflix's Buckingham Palace drama "The Crown" is scrumptious, all 10 hours of it, but job No. 1 remains the hardest: How do you make two of this...

While watching the first four episodes of HBO's extravagant but disappointing science fiction head-scratcher "Westworld," it struck me that this new drama is, in just about every way that counts,...

It's odd how we cling to certain TV rituals. The whole idea of "Fall TV," for example. There's an ongoing, revolutionary upgrade in the many ways we watch television, so...

FX's "Atlanta" - magnificently conceived by and starring Donald Glover - doesn't begin so much as it simply happens, opening with a confrontation in a convenience-store parking lot and immediately...

If you can get through the first two puerile episodes - and that's a big if - of Danny McBride and Jody Hill's mean-spirited school comedy "Vice Principals" (premiering Sunday...

"Roadies," Showtime's new drama about the hardworking employees of a rock band's arena tour, rolls onto TV this Sunday with a long list of problems. The writing is clunky and...