Contributor: Paul Asay

This new Debra Messing series is part crime procedural, part zany family sitcom. (And it’s a mystery as to why it’s still on the air.)

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.)

This “unscripted” USA Network sitcom about the Radke family explores the tension between being real and being a role model.

Like Cheers, only with more calories and fewer laughs.

If a fraternity brother is so drunk that he falls down in an empty quad, does he make a sound?

USA’s Monk has stuck around a whole lot longer than most folks thought it would. Can part of its success be credited to its relative restraint amidst unrestrained cable cohorts?

Captain America’s girlfriend gets her own show on ABC … where she proves she’s got moxie and (world-saving) moves all her own.

A title this long can only mean one thing for poor Polly: She’s stuck in her parents’ house until either ABC cancels the sitcom or renames it.

This first original scripted show to arrive on UP may not be gunning for Emmy nods this year. But that’s a good thing.

CBS’ venerable CSI franchise goes digital with help from Oscar winner Patricia Arquette. So do all its ones and zeros add up to more than its analog siblings?

Sorry, Hannah Montana. Too bad, Lizzie McGuire. In terms of Disney longevity, Raven’s at the top of the heap.

Cancer is a terrible, horrible, never-good disease. Will this ABC Family show somehow make it seem romantic?

No one ever claimed military life was easy. But who knew it could be so sudsy?

Raylan Givens is like Vic Mackey with a southern drawl, Jack Bauer without the time constraints. He may be a good guy, but he sure seems to do some mighty bad things.

Henry and Trish wanted their wedding to be picture perfect. A killer turns it into a TV show.