Maureen Ryan

8 p.m., WMAQ-Ch. 5 After a woman is found in a pool of blood at a table set for a romantic dinner for two, Crews and Reese's (Damien Lewis, Sarah...

It's great to see that Jon Hamm will back on "30 Rock" March 12. But who else hopes the show will use him better than it did in his first...

Launching a broadly successful TV show is possible. No, really, it is. We hear a lot about the fractured media environment, and most of us -- network suits and civilians...

Like the Observer -- the strange man who keeps popping up during investigations then disappearing -- "Fringe" has mysteriously vanished. The Fox drama has made plans to leave New York,...

7 p.m., TCM Bette Davis (left) gives one of her most memorable performances in this classic 1939 weeper, with her as a social butterfly whose carefree life comes crashing down...

Conan O'Brien, who takes over NBC's "Tonight Show" June 1, said goodbye to "Late Night" viewers Friday night. And to those who fear that O'Brien will stop being silly, surreal...

Fox's new Friday lineup could be seen as a philosophically provocative exploration of femininity. At 7 p.m. Friday -- a new night -- the network airs "Terminator: The Sarah Connor...

In the first episode of his feather-light, funny show "Important Things with Demetri Martin" (9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Comedy Central ***), Martin shares some of his childlike drawings with a studio...

It's appropriate that the excellent documentary "Tulia, Texas" (10 p.m. Tuesday, WTTW-Ch. 11 ***1/2) has such a deliberate pace. If the documentary that told the painful story of this town...

If you grew up in the '70s, you're probably familiar with one of "The Electric Company's" signature images. Two people's faces are silhouetted on either side of the TV screen;...