Does NCIS: LA Have One of TV’s Best, Deepest Benches of Recurring Players?
This week on NCIS: Los Angeles, as Callen and Sam raced to Egypt to get a bead on kidnapped colleague Fatima Namazi, they required an assist […]
‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ 13×08 Review: “A Land of Wolves”
NCIS: Los Angeles 13×08 “A Land of Wolves” is, in many ways, an episode about Densi. Or about Deeks and Kensi separately. But it’s also an […]
‘Chicago Fire’: Jesse Spencer to Return in Season 11 Amid Taylor Kinney’s Absence
Casey is back in Chicago, once again. Jesse Spencer, who left NBC’s “Chicago Fire” in 2021 after 200 episodes, will return for the 18th episode […]
Chicago Fire Lays the Groundwork For a P.D. Crossover Romance *No One* Saw Coming
Chicago Fire is NBC’s drama series following the personal and professional lives of firefighters and paramedics at the Chicago Fire Department’s fictional Firehouse 51 in […]
‘All in the Family’: Carroll O’Connor Went from Newspaper Editor and Playwright to Archie Bunker
Carroll O’Connor. Archie Bunker. As far as the television audience is concerned, they’re one and the same — at least visually, though obviously not in […]
Carroll O’Connor Thought ‘All in the Family’ Critics Were ‘Hacks and Semi-Literates’
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach, according to the the old aphorism. Woody Allen’s jokey addendum goes, Those who can’t teach, teach gym. […]
Why Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ Also Resonated with Mexican Americans Like My Mom
I don’t recall my mother watching much prime-time TV in the early 1970s. If anything, she would have been watching Spanish-language soap operas as a […]
Carroll O’Connor had a candid critique of TV critics
If you’re CBS in 1978, surely the most disastrous thing you can do is invite Carroll O’Connor to a dinner with some of the biggest […]
From Propane Gas to Flicker Effects, How ‘Chicago Fire’ Pulls Off Its Blazing Sequences
Ever since its 2012 start, no matter how attractive its actors, there is only one person who truly puts the heat, smoke and flames to […]
Did you spot these ‘Andy Griffith Show’ Easter eggs on ‘Matlock?’
Did you spot these ‘Andy Griffith Show’ Easter eggs on ‘Matlock?’ Andy Griffith was one of the most beloved actors of his era. He created […]
