"J'ai Obtenu Cette," last night’s propulsive season finale of "Sons of Anarchy," was a good indicator of why the fifth year of the FX motorcycle gang drama has been the show’s best since its first.
Read More »Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "The Walking Dead," "Boardwalk Empire," "The Good Wife," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy...
Read More »Well folks, in today’s edition of TV Dial we have news concerning guests stars in two very different shows and two new pilots for next year.
Read More »The great irony in Kurt Sutter's biker saga being called "Sons of Anarchy" is that so much of the show's storyline these first four seasons (and vividly here in the first two episodes of the fifth) has been about control -- control over the criminal underworld of the fictional nort...
Read More »Sure, Sunday seems to always be overcrowded with high-end TV, but what to watch the rest of the week? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days.
Read More »Kurt Sutter, the creator of "Sons of Anarchy," is more likely to be associated with tales of gun-running and biker gang violence than, say, comedy, but it's laughs he's going in search of in the new series he's developing for FX.
Read More »Sitcoms are a notoriously tricky beast to handle in terms of success, simply because if a show grows enormously in popularity and critical regard, so will the cast members who feature prominently in it, therefore leading to tempting offers for them from higher-profile projects. “How I Met Your...
Read More »When Charles Dickens was at the peak of his popularity, Americans used to wait on East Coast docks for the latest chapters of his serialized novels to arrive. TV dramas are our version of that. The best have that mix of shamelessness and sophistication that Dickens refined into art — or at the very ...
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