Contributor: Paul Asay

What does it look like when a show within a show gets too big for its home? Well, exactly like what happened when Disney Channel’s So Random! blasted free from Sonny With a Chance.

Yes, the series is unfortunate. But in its own gloomy, tongue-in-cheek way, it’s also rather fun.

According to Suburgatory, the suburbs are soulless, zombie-like places devoid of creativity, warmth and life. Hmmm. Kinda like this show.

Because we all love going to the dentist so much, Nickelodeon has formulated an entire Claymation show based on a traveling doctor of dentistry. The result is a ‘root canal’ of epic proportions. Without Novocain.

In an era of antiheroes and salacious excess, Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot strives for something brave: being a family show.

While the Meyerists pride themselves on their self-control, this Hulu series shows very little.

Frankly, if I knew that I had six months left before an asteroid hit, I wouldn’t spend my time watching this show.

Four CIA agents take on turbaned terrorists, international spies and their own agency’s red tape in this mash-up of The A-Team and The Office.

What do you get when you combine Downton Abbey with The X-Files? Agent Scully in a petticoat? Not even close.

UPDATED REVIEW: ABC suggests we not trust the young woman who lives in Apartment 23. We’d say the same thing about this show.

This crime procedural may traipse around the globe looking for all manner of unsavory crimes to solve, but it sure looks a whole lot like its TV home.

Christian Slater heads up a security agency staffed by thieves, hackers and would-be crooks. What could possibly go (comically) wrong?

UPDATED REVIEW: Stricken with lung cancer, Walt wants to make sure his wife and disabled son have enough money to live on when he’s dead and gone. So he starts cooking meth for a fast payday … which may well put him six feet under a whole lot faster than the cancer.

This CBS sitcom isn’t perfect when it comes to depicting people of faith. But it is trying.

Hot in Cleveland airs on TV Land, a channel best known for recycling classic sitcoms. It’s a perfect home, really—not because the show feels like a classic, but because it feels recycled.