Television

5 Best Bets on TV This Week: Season Finales for 'Bates Motel,' 'Nashville' and 'Rectify'

Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Mad Men," "Game of Thrones," "Veep," "The Borgias," "Family Tree," "Nurse Jackie" and more, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week.

ACLU to 'Modern Family': Let Cam and Mitch Tie the Knot

Americans love Cam and Mitch, from Barack and Michelle Obama to Anne and Mitt Romney. The two men aren't just the funniest duo on ABC's hit sitcom "Modern Family," they're easily the most visible fictional gay couple in the U.S--and perhaps the nation's most visible gay couple, period. Along with ...

From Alfonso Cuarón to Sam Raimi: The Directors of the 2013-2014 New Network Shows

While conversations about film revolve around directors, TV, it is often pointed out, is a writer's medium, led by story and dialog more than visuals. But lately TV has seen an influx of name directors, indie and otherwise, coming in to helm episodes of shows. Even more interesting has been the grow...

Telephilia: Has Television Become a More Relevant American Medium Than Art Film?

Every medium stimulates and meets the sensibility of an audience as well as, impacting its orientation, political and otherwise. Television has been historically associated with distracted cultural consumption, a medium more suited to influence viewers rather than make them think.

S&A 'Scandal' Recap - A Flurry Of Activity & One Heck Of A Cliffhanger Ends The Season

10 Indie Actors You'll See on Network TV in the New Season

The broadcast television networks have announced the shows that will comprise their 2013-14 schedules (check out the lineups for ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox at those links), and you might be surprised at the indie cred of their collective casts. While cable networks have long seen actors with independent ...

Ranking the Trailers for CBS' New Series, From Robin Williams' Return to TV to Will Arnett's New Sitcom

Unlike ABC, Fox and NBC, CBS choose to cut promotional videos for its new series more like "behind the scenes" EPKs than trailers. Who's to stop them? The Eye trounced all the other networks this past season, even in the coveted adults 18-49, and the company was not shy in crowing about this fact at...

Why We Don't Need More '24': The Torture-Happy Jack Bauer Should Stay Retired

When "24" limped off into the afternoon at 4pm on its eighth and (as yet) final day/season, it did so as a shadow of the series it had been upon its debut a decade earlier. It's easy to forget, after its years of making a gradual shift from mere television show to avatar for an entire political beli...

Ranking the Trailers for ABC's New Series, from Joss Whedon's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' to the Season-in-a-Single-Night 'Mixology'

We've done it for NBC and we've done it for Fox, so now let's take a look at ABC's trailers for its new series. The network announced its 2013-2014 primetime schedule earlier today, and we're ready to rank the offerings.