Maureen Ryan

Jonny Lee Miller, the star of ABC's new legal dramedy "Eli Stone" (9 p.m. Thursday, WLS-Ch. 7) has made it look easy to master an American accent. So has Linus...

Call me crazy, but shouldn't "Saturday Night Live's" fictional Sen. Barack Obama be played by an African-American? On Saturday night, cast member (and former Chicagoan) Fred Armisen played Obama in...

Though it soon settles into the standard patterns of an above-average (if overwrought) drama, the first episode of "quarterlife" (9 p.m. Tuesday, WMAQ-Ch. 5) may make you regret the creation...

Maybe it was post-strike exhaustion. Whatever the explanation, Jon Stewart didn't bare his claws often during his enjoyable Sunday stint as the host of the Oscars. His main target was...

It's sobering to think that ABC's TV-movie adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" (7 p.m. Monday WLS-Ch. 7) might not have been made without the drawing power...

Walt White would feel out of place in a trendy downtown hotel. Walt, the lead character in the darkly comic drama "Breaking Bad" (9 p.m. Sunday, AMC), walks with stooped...

The best show on television right now is HBO's "In Treatment." Even if the recently concluded writers strike had not turned much of February and March into a desert of...

In the 2004 battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the men of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division were hailed as heroes for their courage during...

Late last week, I compiled a list of TV shows that will probably return with new episodes this season. Since that list was printed in the Tribune on Sunday, reporters...

Now that the writers strike is over, we can all come clean about our Secret Strike Shame. Our taste and discernment levels might have slipped a bit during the strike...