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November 21, 2008

'A Colbert Christmas,' 'The Unseen Alistair Cooke'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW

November 18, 2008

'The IFC Media Project'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: The motto of this six-part IFC series might be: 'Trust but verify'

November 15, 2008

'Ricky Gervais: Out of England -- The Stand-Up Special' on HBO

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: Ricky Gervais combines his 'Office' and 'Extras' personas in his 'Out of England' HBO special.

November 14, 2008

'Batman: The Brave and The Bold'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: In Cartoon Network's new series, the Caped Crusader joins with a fellow hero each week.

November 11, 2008

John McCain in his element

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION: Critic's Notebook: He'll guest on 'Late Night With Jay Leno' in the kind of setting where he's free to be himself.

'Chase'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: The Sci Fi Channel reality show features contestants in what is presented as a human video game.

November 8, 2008

'Summer Heights High'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: Chris Lilley takes on three roles in HBO mockumentary series.

November 7, 2008

'Ruby' on the Style Network

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The heroine of this real-life weight-loss show is tremendously appealing. Seems some of the substance of her tale is missing, though.

October 31, 2008

'Legend of the Seeker'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: First there was 'Hercules' and 'Xena.' Now this new series pursues justice on lazy afternoons.

October 26, 2008

TV can always afford style

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION: The medium is at heart about intimacy and economy, about doing more with less.

October 22, 2008

'Stylista'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: Yet another reality show about the fashion industry is cut from the same cloth as all the rest.

October 21, 2008

'Nova: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'

By ROBERT LLOYD

TELEVISION REVIEW: Mark Oliver Everett's father was a brilliant physicist but a cold parent. Mark tries to figure out why.

October 20, 2008

'Rita' premise rocks, but can it deliver?

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The Lifetime comedy needs to take its premise of a guitar-playing mom seriously.

October 18, 2008

Lifetime's tepid 'Living Proof' tells of the doctor who developed breast cancer drug Herceptin

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Harry Connick Jr. plays UCLA's Dr. Dennis Slamon. The cast includes Bernadette Peters, Swoosie Kurtz and Amy Madigan.

October 17, 2008

NBC's 'Crusoe' is lavish and fun

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

October 10, 2008

'The Starter Wife'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The former miniseries returns with a remodel that benefits the actors.

October 9, 2008

'Life on Mars' finds life in the U.S.

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The British show, about a cop who is hit by a car in 2008 and wakes up in 1973, lands on ABC.

'Testees' humor hits below the belt

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: If you like flatulence and genital jokes, the Kenny Hotz-created sitcom on FX is for you.

October 7, 2008

'The Real Housewives of Atlanta'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: In this Bravo franchise, 'Real' is debatable. But the new subjects remind us that in some respects, they are.

October 5, 2008

'Sports Night' on DVD

By Robert Lloyd

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: The Aaron Sorkin comedy series is back in a 10th-anniversary set.

September 30, 2008

'The IT Crowd'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The British import, a workplace sitcom with a raucous, surreal edge, may be the best comedy on the domestic fall schedule.

September 27, 2008

'Superjail' on Cartoon Network, and 'The Life & Times of Tim' on HBO

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Violent? Yup. Profane? You bet. One thing's for sure: Keep the kids away from these animated series.

'The Shadow in the North'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

September 25, 2008

'Ugly' trend hitting Hollywood where it lives

By Robert Lloyd

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: After closing the series' production in L.A. for tax incentives in New York, 'Betty' flaunts its new locale tonight in the season premiere. What's the next showbiz expat?

September 24, 2008

'Knight Rider' a vehicle suitable for the task

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Justin Breuning stars in a show in which super car KITT has learned new tricks.

September 23, 2008

'Opportunity Knocks'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

September 22, 2008

'Worst Week'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The protagonist in 'Worst Week' has bad luck, but the show has some good luck with a capable cast and crew.

At the Emmys, reality's the star

By Robert Lloyd

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Do we tune in to award shows to see the 'real person' behind the role, or the glamorous celebrity? Try both.

September 14, 2008

Robert Lloyd examines the new shows

By Robert Lloyd

TV FALL PREVIEW

September 4, 2008

Sarah Palin's convention speech: She did just fine

By Robert Lloyd

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Controversy over daughter Bristol Palin's pregnancy gave Republicans an opportunity to rail at the media Wednesday night.

September 3, 2008

TV review: 'Sons of Anarchy' gets your motor runnin'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: FX's new series mixes motorcycle gangs and complex morals and characters in a small Northern California town.

September 2, 2008

'The Banana Splits'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: A children's show that premiered in 1968 is being resurrected via a multi-platform assault that includes Cartoon Network shorts, a CD, a DVD and more.

September 1, 2008

'Raising the Bar' on TNT

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The legal series offers an ensemble cast vainly searching for compelling stories and characters.

'Sid the Science Kid' on KCET

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The new series aims to help children understand the way the real world works.

August 23, 2008

'Z Rock'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Z02 stars as the fictional Z Brothers who'll do anything for the dream in a new IFC comedy.

August 21, 2008

TV review: 'The Cho Show'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Comedian Margaret Cho offers viewers an amusing glimpse into her life, but it's reality on her terms.

August 20, 2008

'Architecture School' on the Sundance Channel

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: When students build low-income housing on 'Architecture School,' teamwork trumps manufactured conflict.

Web series review: 'Gemini Division'

By Robert Lloyd

WEB SERIES REVIEW: Rosario Dawson stars in the first original Web series from NBC Universal Digital Studios.

August 18, 2008

Target audiences, meet 'Gemini Division'

By Robert Lloyd

Rosario Dawson stars in the first original Web series from NBC Universal Digital Studios. When last we saw our heroine, Paris was great, but the drama was cheesy.

August 15, 2008

'Skins'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: With its cool view of teendom, the satirically edged British series so wants to be bad.

August 11, 2008

'The American Mall' -- teens, dreams and dancing in the food court

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: There's nothing original about the MTV musical, but it has a certain appeal.

August 7, 2008

'Larry Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

August 2, 2008

'Doctor Who' finale pulls out all the stops

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Two-parter is like a family reunion of characters from the last four seasons, who band together to fight the Daleks and Davros, an early villain.

July 25, 2008

'Mad Men'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The Emmy-nominated drama series returns with promises of more complexity to come.

July 23, 2008

Del Shores' 'Sordid Lives'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

July 21, 2008

Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The HBO documentary follows the Hollywood madam as she tries to open a brothel for female clients.

July 18, 2008

Did the Emmys get the nominations right? It's debatable

By Robert Lloyd

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Everyone has an opinion, but only the academy's view counts.

July 16, 2008

'Project Runway' fifth season premiere

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: 'Project Runway,' entering its fifth season, offers something few other reality competition shows do: creativity.

July 15, 2008

'The Cleaner'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Benjamin Bratt stars as a man whose mission is to free others from addictions on A & E's slick new series.

July 11, 2008

'Generation Kill'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The HBO miniseries takes viewers along for the invasion of Iraq.

'Flashpoint'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: CBS introduces a nicely done -- if unchallenging -- drama from Canada about a SWAT-style unit.

July 9, 2008

'Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The cartoon crossover, based on the popular NPR series 'Car Talk,' is a dull ride.

July 3, 2008

'Election Day,' a documentary by Katy Chevigny

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Viewers see the essence of the democratic process, from small-town America to New York.

July 1, 2008

'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager' is one-track-mind adolescence as scripted by grown-up television writers.

June 28, 2008

'The Singing Office'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: When everyday workers get taken from their cubicles and trained for a singing competition, everybody wins.

June 26, 2008

'Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The DeWolf clan deals with a (not very) ancestral secret in 'Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North.'

June 24, 2008

George Carlin, expert troublemaker

By Robert Lloyd

AN APPRECIATION: The comedian liked to cause a fuss with his observations -- and we liked him for it.

June 23, 2008

'Heavy Load'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Three of the band's five members have disabilities, but it's the rock that matters.

'When I Knew' and 'Emile Norman: By His Own Design'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEWS: Gay men and women reveal humor and pain in documentaries about self-discovery and how they dealt with the life afterward.

June 20, 2008

'Camp Rock'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The Disney movie hits the right notes for its target audience, even without the Jonas Brothers in every frame.

June 16, 2008

'Middleman,' basic-cable hero

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The spoofy adventure series might be too light and silly for network fare, but it feels right for ABC Family.

2008 Tony Awards: Oddly, the speeches were the best part

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW

May 29, 2008

'At the Death House Door' on Independent Film Channel

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: The movie follows the moral journey of a pastor who shepherded condemned killers to their executions.

May 27, 2008

'Square Pegs' fits right in

By Robert Lloyd

DVD REVIEW: The short-lived 1982 TV series had a lot to say, in its offbeat way. Now that it's on DVD, we can see what it helped to start.

May 20, 2008

'Not Going Out'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: BBC America brings the Megan Dodds, Lee Mack comedy to the U.S.

May 10, 2008

Showtime's 'An American Crime,' starring Ellen Page and Catherine Keener

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Based on the true story of a murdered teen, the Tommy O'Haver-directed film walks the line between truth and exploitation for entertainment's sake.

May 7, 2008

TV Review: 'Inside a Cult'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: A documentary on Michael Travesser's New Mexico church airs in the wake of his arrest Tuesday on sex charges.

April 30, 2008

'Farmer Wants a Wife'

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: On the CW, it's dating on the barn scene.

April 26, 2008

'Carrier' on PBS

By Robert Lloyd

TELEVISION REVIEW: Even in 10 hours, this PBS documentary series aboard the Nimitz delivers a cursory study of its men, women and mission.