Maureen Ryan

"Fringe" and "Dollhouse" were two of the most eagerly awaited shows of the 2008-09 TV season, but both have struggled to reach their potential. "Fringe" (8 p.m. Tuesday, Fox) needed...

"Surviving Suburbia" (8:32 p.m. Central Monday, ABC *1/2) is the latest in a long line of ineffectual ABC sitcoms. When it comes to half-hour comedies, ABC has tried everything: It...

Some random musings and bits of news: * I recently came across two great "Lost" links. The first one (tr.im/i3uM) is a fan-made collection of Dharma Initiative recruitment posters. The...

"Friday Night Lights," the acclaimed drama about a small town in Texas, has been picked up for two additional seasons, Variety reports. Stars Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler (who play...

8 p.m., WFLD-Ch. 32 Agent Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) comes face to face -- and fist to fist -- with Echo (Eliza Dushku) in action for the first time, taking his...

There's an easy way to describe the promising new comedy "Party Down" (9:30 Central Friday, Starz ***1/2 ): It's the anti-"Entourage." No doubt thousands of people have been inspired to...

It seemed fitting that the ragtag fleet's journey ended at the United Nations. Since the 2003 debut of "Battlestar Galactica," which ends its run in spectacular style Friday (8 p.m....

The CBS series "Cold Case" will use 16 Pearl Jam songs in the show's two-part May season finale. A number of the songs will be from the group's 1991 debut...

Perhaps it's appropriate that the brittle, synthetic "Better Off Ted" (7:30 p.m. Central, Wednesday, ABC **) gives the impression that it was grown in a lab. This workplace comedy is...

David Chase, the creator of "The Sopranos," is back in business with HBO. Not with a "Sopranos"-related project, but with "A Ribbon of Dreams," a miniseries about the invention of...