Contributor: Paul Asay

MTV hopes Lakewood has an inexhaustible supply of telegenic teens. Otherwise, the series might murder itself right out of existence.

This nonstop game show offers contestants a hot seat worth some cool cash—the biggest jackpot in television history, NBC says. Is it a TV winner too?

From France and Australia (with love and loopiness) comes the summer’s strangest, zaniest show.

Is it the end of the world? No, just Fox’s new Saturday block of foul animated comedies. But for families who might want to stay up late and watch a bit of TV on occasion, it could be close enough.

Given all the blood and brutality we witness, Hard Sun can be hard to watch.

If it weren’t for the Freeform logo permanently stitched to the bottom corner of your screen, Stitchers would make you think you’re watching the CW.

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.

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

It doesn’t take much time for the lovely Dulcinea to realize that Puss in Boots has his share of flaws. But she insists that our titular tabby has a good heart. And the same could be said for his new Netflix show.

Every cop-and-crime-based buddy show seems to have two mismatched detectives working together. But how many of them actually have to go to couples’ counseling?

Scott Bakula takes a quantum leap over to CBS to head up the cast for the second NCIS spinoff that moves from L.A. to La.

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.