I have to admit: I wasn't real excited during the first 10 minutes of Project Runway, when I learned that contestants would be making garments out of car parts. It seemed like yet another shameless plug, of which there have been tons this season. This time, it was for Saturn, one of the show's…

One thing that a lot of successful reality shows have in common is that they get fortunate with their initial casts, and I think that's one reason why I'm enjoying Greatest American Dog, even though objectively not very much is going on. The closest thing to a villain has been a woman who believed…

It's another strong episode for the UK import Skins, as this time we follow the talented Jal as she gets ready for her big music competition. If the first episode was about narcissism ("Tony") and the second one about an eating disorder ("Cassie"), this one might very well be about racism. Sure,…

Let's do the time warp again.

Blame it on writers having too much time walking the picket lines, and wanting to be years away from their troubles, but this fall you'll see a lot of time jumping on both new and returning shows.

Viewers got a shock last spring when Desperate Housewives ended the…

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Usually around this time, TV audiences are preparing for the sophomore slump, the inevitable…

NBC owes Michael Phelps a very big fruit basket.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were officially the most-watched U.S. television event of all time with 211 million viewers tuning into NBC and its sister cable channels, according to Nielsen Media Research. (That's 2 million more than the previous…

If it's a Tuesday, it must be time for another TV Addict DVD Giveaway Challenge! Here at Film.com, we like to give away free stuff. This week, our DVD of choice is the just-released Heroes: Season 2 .

Granted, season two of NBC's Heroes was shortened due to the Writers Guild Strike, and stumbled…