Television Review: Gladiators of the Dance in the Arena of Reality TV

Bravo has now come up with “Step It Up & Dance,” a competition that makes literal the cuts and bruises of the career-building genre.

Advertising: NBC to Revive a Mainstay of Early TV

Sponsors will get a say in content and its name on the show.

Television Review: Drug War in Detroit, Macho Style

Poor Detroit. First the scandal and resulting criminal charges involving the city’s mayor, and now “DEA,” the new Spike TV series that begins on Wednesday.

Television Review: Daughters, and Other Secrets of Nursing the Elderly

“Caring for Your Parents” examines a handful of families in and around Providence, R.I., who have turned their lives over to the physical and emotional needs of elderly parents.

Like the Candidates, TV’s Political Pundits Show Signs of Diversity

Both MSNBC and CNN this election season have given new prominence to a handful of contributing commentators from varied backgrounds and perspectives: blacks, Hispanics and women.

Television Review | 'Bad Voodoo's War': Getting a Platoon’s-Eye View of the War on the Ground

Deborah Scranton had a good idea with “The War Tapes,” the 2006 documentary about the Iraq war that she made from video shot by soldiers themselves, and she shows that it’s still an illuminating gimmick in “Bad Voodoo’s War.”

The TV Watch: Obama Communicates, Even Without Words

If the fluttery response of the five hosts of “The View” is any harbinger, Senator Barack Obama will not have trouble assuaging female voters.

Television: One New American, Imitating Many

In her new series on Showtime, Tracey Ullman continues to skewer the personal foibles of Americans large and small.

Television Review | 'Sense and Sensibility': The Dashwood Quest for Civil Unions

The screenwriter Andrew Davies's latest adaptation of Jane Austen proves again that we should all suffer the misfortunes of real estate endured by the downgraded heroines of Austen’s tributes to love and property.

Stars and Slime at Kids’ Awards Show

On Saturday night more than six million children and their parents are expected to tune in to the 21st annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” on Nickelodeon.

A Night Out With | Tom Wopat and John Schneider: The Dukes of Broadway

Hanging out with Tom Wopat and John Schneider, better known as good ol’ boys Luke and Bo Duke of the 1980s-era television show “The Dukes of Hazzard”.

Fallen Lawman With a Wagonload of Women

“Prairie Fever,” an original western on the ION network on Saturday night, opens with a gunfight that is almost comic in its intensity

Tackling Directing and George Clooney

John Krasinski speaks about his fitness routine, the origins of his passion project and the simple pleasures of punching George Clooney in the face in “Leatherheads.”

TV Review | 'The Tudors': Nasty, but Not So Brutish and Short

No matter how much sex “The Tudors” has given us, it is a show that never gets quite dirty enough.

TV Review: Multiple Personalities, All of Them Disordered

“Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union,” a new series that arrives Sunday on Showtime, is a one-woman travelogue of American fame, folly and misfortune.

Television Review: Take a Room. Fix It Up. Showpiece!

The democratization of taste continues with “Myles of Style,” a decorating show that began this month on HGTV.

Behind in the Ratings, CBS News Hopes for Help From a Debate

CBS News, which lags well behind its competitors in most areas of television news, wants a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the worst way.

The TV Watch: Spears’s Bit Part: Not a Comeback

Britney Spears's small guest appearance on the CBS show “How I Met Your Mother” was a boon for the network, but that doesn’t mean that Ms. Spears is well again and on her way back to former glory.

A Season of Song, Dance and Autism

“Autism: The Musical” tracks a rambunctious cast of children with autism — and their parents — as they prepare to put on a show.

Television Review | 'The Hills': Career Climbing, With Claws Bared

The pseudo-improvised reality series “The Hills,” as it plays out beyond MTV, on tabloid covers and in nearly every other byway of the modern media, is above all a vicious decimator of hope.