One of "American Idol's" best underdogs, Elliott Yamin, will be performing at Playland in Rye this Thursday night at 8 p.m.

Yamin finished third in the fifth season of "Idol," ahead of Chris Daughtry and just barely behind Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee. He was seen several times on this most recent season of "Idol," appearing [...]

Yesterday, I posted some second-season trailers and photos of "Chuck" and its cast members' appearances.

And then, thanks to a reader named Suzane, I was alerted to an amazing, non-spoilery 6 1/2-minute montage of Season 2 snippets that premiered at Comic-Con and found its way to YouTube.

The video seriously has everything that "Chuck" fans love about [...]

I was already thrilled for the second season of "Chuck," but here are three more reasons to be excited.

First, a blind search for new "Chuck" clips on Hulu resulted in a couple of teaser trailers for the sophomore season, which launches Monday, Sept. 29 on NBC.

Within the first few seconds of the this trailer (the [...]

Mmm… poll-icious.

"The Simpsons" managed to stave off a steady phaser attack by "Star Trek: The Next Generation" to claim victory in Remote Access' latest poll, which asked readers to pick the greatest spin-off of all time.

Matt Groening's ongoing animated saga pulled nearly 1 vote in 3 tallied, while nearly 1 in 5 picked Jean-Luc Picard [...]

Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and the good news: Comedies like "30 Rock" and "The Office" are in the mix for best series, as well they should.

The bad: I swear the only reason "The Wire" isn't among the best drama nominees is because lazy Emmy voters—i.e. most of them—never saw the show. Despite a [...]

They're two TV shows whose viewers are more fanatics than mere fans, and they have previous series to thank for their existence.

"The Simpsons" wouldn't be around if "The Tracey Ullman Show" didn't feature the shorts starring Matt Groening's far more crudely drawn version of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. And it'd be pretty hard [...]

Pay no attention to the official winner of last night's Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium; the only name you need to remember is Josh Hamilton.

The Texas Ranger crushed 28 homers in the first round of last night's Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium—20 more than any other player in that frame—but lost the event [...]

Distorted by waves of heat rising from the scorched desert sand, five military vehicles in the distance roll in a single line before the four outer vehicles swerve toward the center, creating the illusion of one single hulking, united mass of machinery on the horizon.

One minute into David Simon and Ed Burns' seven-part HBO miniseries [...]

Attention "Chuck" fans: It appears we now have a face to go with the name Jill.

As you may or may not recall (hey, I assume nothing as it's been a while), Jill is the mysterious girl who broke Chuck's heart when they were Stanford University students. Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello is reporting that star Jordana [...]

YES Network broadcaster and former Yankee outfielder Bobby Murcer seemed like one of the nicest people ever to broadcast games, one of the nicest people to play baseball, one of the nicest people—period. I took the news of his death much harder than I anticipated.

I found solace, however, in the YES Network's thoughtful, reverent and [...]

Oscar-winner and "American Idol" alumna Jennifer Hudson is set to release her debut album Sept. 30. Yawn.

The cover art is sleek and sexy, but this release would be far more exciting if it paralleled the release of "Dreamgirls," or came on the heels of her Academy Award win for Best Actress in said movie. The [...]

As I mentioned in this post, my NetFlix queue has been booked for foreseeable future with the first four seasons of "The Wire." After years of being intimidated by the show's complex plots and myriad characters, I finally latched onto it in its fifth and final season. Upon my introduction to David Simon and Ed [...]

I have to give props to Entertainment Weekly, whose "American Idol" scoop continues to impress months after the last piece of confetti was swept off the Kodak Theatre floor. I tend to burn out on the show within two days of its seasonal run. Many of the links below are from EW.com, so I offer [...]

Hellboy and Chuck Bartowski are used to saving the world. But for all we know they could be up to saving Princess Peach in new commercials that promote the demonic hero's movie sequel:

Thanks to TV Guide and fellow Accessory Amy Vernon for finding the longer video. For now, they'll have to keep fans occupied until [...]

When I randomly ran into recent Super Bowl champion Michael Strahan last Monday, I wish I had known he had recently filmed a cameo on one of my favorite TV shows, "Chuck."

I might have been able to get a scoop about acting from the Giants' recently retired defensive end, whom I spotted wrapping up a [...]

I'll admit it. I've never seen an episode of "Lost."

I know, people tell me it's amazing. I'm also fiercely intimidated by joining a complicated show so late in its run, which is why it took me so long to give "Deadwood" a try—and wow, I'm glad I did. But I'm also unmotivated to catch up [...]

I interviewed Taylor Hicks on Monday, when the "American Idol" Season 5 champ was at Mamaroneck's Winged Foot Golf Club to lend his celebrity to Autism Speaks.

We discussed a variety of topics, whose clips will appear on this site over the next couple of weeks (I'm off for the next few days).

Here, Hicks discusses his [...]

Hopefully "Top Chef" viewers this season had enough foresight (and/or spoilers) to know Stephanie Izard would take home the title, thus freeing themselves to bestow the $10,000 fan favorite award on the infinitely quotable Andrew D'Ambrosi. He was definitely my favorite of the 16, although Stephanie, Richard Blais and Erik Hopfinger were right up there, [...]

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Hicks is a great sport, but the message the singer really wanted to spread at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck yesterday was support for Autism Speaks, which held its 10th annual New York Celebrity Golf Challenge and raised $1 million for the cause. He was a very kind [...]

When I heard last week that "American Idol" champ David Cook sang Foo Fighters' "My Hero" on "The Tonight Show," although Cook said it was a tribute to the Foo Fighters and the group's lead singer, Dave Grohl, three thoughts immediately crossed my mind:

1. No one can outdo Grohl. (I was right.)
2. I bet Cook [...]