Contributor: Adam R. Holz

Like its singing sibling American Idol, Fox’s reality dancing competition is full of inspiring moments, talented competitors … and just enough salacious content to seriously spoil all that inspiration and talent.

In its 20th season, Law & Order continues to turn real-life headlines into TV dramas. Its latest fictionalization revolves around the issue of abortion—and the pro-life side gets a pretty fair hearing.

Using Seinfeld’s old set, a chemistry-free Friends-ian robot of a show tries its hand at reviving the sitcom on ABC. We’ll let you guess as to whether it succeeds.

The Amazing Race has already circumnavigated the globe more times than most of us have traveled outside our home states. We’re tagging along this season.

What happens when Jerry Seinfeld rounds up celebrities to help married couples struggling through matrimonial crises? OK, let’s ask that question another way: Do you really want marriage advice from Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey or Madonna?

The campy, controversial series about rich New York teens behaving badly continues to push the envelope with edgy subject matter. (That’s not gossip. That’s a flat fact.)

If the Coen brothers, the members of Monty Python, the cast of Jacka–, the screenwriters for Seinfeld and The Three Stooges teamed up to make a sitcom, it would look something like this FX show.

For decades, people have been spinning tales of alien abductions. Such interstellar kidnappings serve as the starting point for this USA Network series.

Don’t mistake Holly Hunter’s new supernatural drama (on TNT) for ‘Touched by an Angel’ or even ‘Joan of Arcadia.’

Merging the CSI and Ghost Whisperer playbooks, this pseudo-paranormal crime procedural revolves around a psychologist and a detective solving crimes by helping reincarnated victims puzzle out the pieces of their Past Life.

Fifty percent American Idol. Fifty percent The Gong Show. One hundred percent spectacle.

AMC’s stylishly noir murder mystery is now on Netflix. It still features a compelling cast of police and suspects and red herring twists. But it paints an even more brutal and heartrending picture of pain and tragedy.

Reality TV producer extraordinaire Mark Burnett insists his new show about teams racing through the wilderness isn’t like The Amazing Race at all.

Anne Heche plays Beth Harper, a drunken floozie whose near-death experience unexpectedly gives her the ability to hear the voice of God. (And what she hears is supposed to be, according to NBC, funny.)

On Fox: The latest project from ‘Gilmore Girls’ creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Instead of a mother-daughter duo, ‘Jezebel’ features sisters.