In "Here Comes the Flood," not the show's most enthralling episode, a pipe burst at the hospital. The water wasn't that much of a huge deal except to reveal, while Mr. O'Brien was on the operating table, that patient he had an unexpected tumor in his abdomen.

As for the usually ditsy Lexie, she, through intense [...]

Finally — a broadcast-TV show whose premise contains more than a shred of originality.

OK, so "Life on Mars," which debuted last night on ABC, is derived from a British show of the same name, but that's far enough from Hollywood for me. Jason O'Mara headlines as Sam Tyler, a present-day NYPD detective who, after getting [...]

It's time (10 p.m., Oct. 9) again to say hello to another rip-off from the British. (What–we Yanks have lost our creative mojo?) But if this Americanization is anything like our good ones ("All in the Family," "Friends" and "The Office") rather than our crummy ones ("Coupling," "Viva Laughlin"), then we're all in for a [...]

One of America's favorite medical shows got off to a fine season start with a two-hour show that focused on the doctors as well as some patients. In "Dream a Little Dream of Me," the wonderful Bernadette Peters, Mariette Hartley and Kathy Baker starred in the riveting storyline involving three women and their husbands, all [...]

At least that's what it seems like now, as the medical dramedy goes into its fifth season. There will be a new major character and lots of romance when the new season kicks off with a two-hour premiere on September 25. "I'm all about the love this year," creator Shonda Rhimes wrote in "TV Guide."

The [...]

In the show's penultimate episode, "Surprise!", Bruce dipped his toe further into his smoldering relationship with his coworker Melinda and found  out that he has more in conversational common—"Hey, how 'bout those Cubs?"—with her than he does with his wife, Susan. Then the louse lied to Susan that he had to return to his office [...]

As the summer of '76 winds down on this randy CBS series, the characters' lives are taking alternate directions. Roger goes to a shrink and confesses that he thinks he's in love with Susan. "I feel alive when I'm around her," he says. (If I were married to deadbeat Janet, I'd feel alive when I [...]

Our prissy little Janet seems to be loosening up, thank goodness. How so? After Tom gave her a no-big-deal kiss on the lips, she started to develop the hots for him and even went to a shrink to talk about it. I'm not saying that Janet's having the hots for Tom is necessarily a [...]

OK, so maybe I've been living in a vacuum, but I had never heard of Jack Davenport, who plays Bruce Miller, before "Swingtown." Then, while trolling cbs.com last night, I found some video interviews with the cast and was surprised to find that our off-screen "Bruce" is no Chicagoan. Not that that's a bad thing, [...]

It hasn't happened yet to the aggressive little minx and daughter of conservative Susan and Bruce. But I can see it in the cards. She'll get preggers via her former summer-school teacher, Doug, who prefers that he and Laurie take things nice and slow. Doug will be in big-time hot water, Laurie will finally realize [...]

That's right, sports fans, the swinging-sex series has relocated to Friday nights at 10. I found this out on Friday, when I went to watch the episode that was scheduled to air the night before, and right before it was suppose to start, an announcer said to watch for it on its new day, Friday. [...]

In addition to the outside air, things between Tom and Trina also got all heated up last week when he "cheated" on her in Tokyo with stew Bobbi. Tsk, tsk, Tommy boy. There ARE some rules in your "open marriage."In the end, Tom and Trina decided that it's time to revisit their marriage rules [...]

CBS says that last week's installment of its summer series posted double-digit percentage increases over the week before. In this vast wasteland of summer programming, it was no surprise. (I watched "America's Greatest Dog," thinking it would be a cute contest between canines. It instead turned out to be "Big Brother With Dogs." As [...]

I was glad to read in "TV Guide" last night that the CW series, going into its eighth year, returns on September 18, instead of its usual mid-October season debut. The month change could be due to their shooting a bunch of eps before the possible actors' strike hit, and it's still not certain that [...]

Oh, Janet, we just KNEW that there was a tiger waiting to spring out of that kitten.  Whoda thunk that the woman who was holding a Tupperware party would  end up joining Susan at—and kind of enjoying!—a get-together to help raise cash  for the legal-defense fund of the male star of the X-rated movie "Deep [...]

Going to the Millers' country cabin was a refreshing change of pace in the episode "Cabin Fever." The three couples were more on neutral grounds and forced to interact with each other. Tom, Trina, Janet and Roger were "out of their ususal element," which made them more vulnerable. And I thought that I was going [...]

We must first give "Swingtown" credit for playing Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" and the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" on last week's soundtrack. That as opposed to a cover band cranking out "Me and You and A Dog Named Boo." And wouldn't it be interesting to find out if all the tunes are [...]

Talk about one-track minds…. Do Tom and Trina Decker (below) think about anything else but sex? Those two are always obsessing about three facets of that subject: their most recent encounter, their current encounter or their upcoming encounter. But more than just one-dimensional horndogs, the Decker duo are becoming extremely dull. Especially Susan, who, [...]

Izzie on "Grey's Anatomy" has rejected consideration for an Emmy nom this TV year, reasoning, "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination, and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the Academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not [...]

If you dare? JUST KIDDING!

CBS is hyping this show as if viewers will be shocked—SHOCKED—by its content. But here's the real skinny: The original Dr. Scholl's sandals, Tab with the removable flip-top tabs, trimline phones, eight-track tapes….

OK, we "get" it. It's the 1970s—the summer of '76 in a middle-class Chicago suburb, to be exact. The [...]