NBC names the versatile Emmy-winning writer/performer Seth Meyers as the new host of “Late Night” when Jimmy Fallon moves to “The Tonight Show” in 2014.  Lorne Michaels will executive produce “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and Michael Shoemaker will remain with the franchise as producer.  “Late Night with Seth Meyers” will originate from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Read More

NBC has announced a new lineup of primetime shows for the 2013-14 season that provide a winning combination of popular returning series, fresh new comedies, compelling new dramas and the latest season of “The Voice,” the top reality program on television. Read More

Jay Leno, longtime host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” announced today that he will wrap up what will be 22 years of headlining the iconic late-night show in Spring 2014.  NBC also announced today that Jimmy Fallon, now host of NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” will transition into new hosting duties on “The Tonight Show” franchise after Leno concludes his successful run.   Read More

Ever since The West Wing ended, I’ve longed for a show that goes inside The White House.  Sure, I chuckled my way through That’s My Bush a decade ago, and I kind of liked Geena Davis’ Commander in Chief in 2005.  Now, we’ve got 1600 Penn.  I’m still waiting. Read More

After the success of ABC’s Revenge last season, I’m a little surprised there aren’t more shows such as Infamous this year.  I’m also more than a little surprised that NBC is saving this one of mid-season. Read More

NBC is describing this series as a new twist on a Jeckyl and Hyde story, but to me, Do No Harm is more reminiscent of the old Incredible Hulk TV series (and not in a good way, as I will explain). Read More

If there is one sitcom premise that has grown tiresome for me in the past few years, it’s the relationship comedy.  We have seen many couples comedies come and go as networks try hard to find the right combinations of men and women to come off as believable couples.  Personally, I’m surprised to see the Christina Applegate/Wil Arnett show, Up All Night, survive into a second season, but NBC seems desperate for this kind of a show. Read More

I almost feel as though I should write two reviews for this show.  One review for people who watched Denis Leary’s fire squad series Rescue Me and one for those who didn’t. Read More

Think about it for a minute.  Everything around you that requires a power source stops working.  Forever.  Your phone, your computer, your car, good grief, your coffee maker!!!  That’s the fear being played upon in Revolution.  Cars stop dead in their tracks on the highway and have to be abandoned.  Airplanes fall out of the sky.  You can no longer contact anyone outside of your own vicinity.  Society–as we know it–is over.

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Full disclosure:  I am not an animal lover.  I don’t dislike them, I just don’t particularly…like them.  Nevertheless, I would get a pet just to become a regular visitor to Animal Practice, a very funny and original sitcom about an animal hospital where the pets come first (sometimes to the consternation of their owners).   Read More