Review: NBC's Crusoe Is Lightweight Fun

Phillip Winchester as Robinson Crusoe in the NBC series 'Crusoe'
NBC

Friday night needs a little fantasy, and Crusoe fits the bill for putting your mind in neutral and just coasting along for the ride.

Just don't look too hard at the construction of this leaky vessel.

NBC tosses its hat into the island castaway arena, far behind CBS's Survivor and ABC's Lost, in… Continued

Top 10 New TV Sidekicks

Michael Weston in 'House'
FOX

Sidekicks are all the rage this TV season.

House has hired a new one, while over at Bones they're test-driving a new accessory every week.

Wilson… Continued

Review: Life On Mars Is A Good Trip

Harvey Keitel on ABC's 'Life on Mars'
ABC

Life just got infinitely more complex for Detective Sam Tyler.

Sam's been searching for a serial killer while working out a relationship with fellow cop Maya (Lisa Bonet). In short, nothing out of the ordinary for a New York City police detective. Then he gets run down by a speeding car.

All in… Continued

Review: Eleventh Hour Strikes Out

Rufus Sewell in CBS' 'The Eleventh Hour'
CBS

Rufus Sewell, who may be best known for period pieces like Middlemarch, A Knight's Tale and Helen of Troy, says he was tired of being offered parts that always involved horses.

"People generally come to me with edgy characters they throw on horses," Sewell says. "So the idea of being a non-titled,… Continued

Fall TV: The Ex List Break-Up Spells Trouble

Elizabeth Reaser of 'The Ex List'
CBS

It's never a good thing when the showrunner ditches a series before it even hits the air.

That's exactly what happened on Sept. 12 when Diane Ruggiero (Veronica Mars) took a flyer on The Ex List, a series she adapted from the Israeli TV show Mythological X.

Both shows center on a woman in her early… Continued