Contributor: Paul Asay

The denizens of this crazy precinct are charged with cleaning up New York’s streets. Too bad they didn’t do the same for the show.

UPDATED REVIEW: Ever wondered how Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw became the sex-manic fashionista she was for all those years on HBO? No, we hadn’t either. But the CW has.

This sitcom’s writers pack more sex jokes into a half-hour comedy than some airlines pack in seats on their planes.

UPDATED REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes will never actually die, it seems—a mystery he might set his keen mind to solving one of these years.

UPDATED REVIEW: Kiefer Sutherland’s back on Fox. But instead of torturing terrorists, he’s caring for a special-needs son with a very special (and spiritual) gift.

UPDATED REVIEW: Austin & Ally is a standard-issue Disney sitcom … with a Nickelodeon twist.

While Olivia’s team likes to think they’re the ones wearing the white hats, it’s a very black business they’ve gotten into.

As if ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The Hills’ weren’t enough, Bravo comes up with a reality show that’s little more than a sickening parade of wealth, privilege and exploitation.

UPDATED REVIEW: Dexter seems nice enough. He’s got a nice job, a nice pad, a nice life. But it’s all a convenient cover for his not-so-nice hobby—killing people.

If there’s one thing TV teaches us, it’s to never trust your neighbors. But The Americans tells us that trusting our TVs can be just as dangerous.

Stephen Colbert isn’t a conservative blowhard. He just plays one on TV.

Originality was one of the hallmarks of Lost, 24 and The X-Files. So in its quest for originality, this surreal NBC serial strives mightily to copy them all.

UPDATED REVIEW: It’s tough to be a parent—and sometimes parents themselves make the work even tougher. This NBC dramedy, based on the 1989 movie, unearths a whole lot of those sometimes.

Ironically, this smart show can feel pretty dumb.

Seven twentysomethings return to high school, pretend to be students and report their findings in this A&E reality series.