Contributor: Paul Asay

While this show is obviously written about middle school, it’s intended for adults—and it gets very adult indeed.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry isn’t the only place a magically inclined kid can get a solid education.

Like the title says, there are little ponies, there is friendship and there is magic. And that charmed combination has helped make this Hub Network series one of pop culture’s most unexpected success stories.

Kevin Can Wait may be the kind of show some of us have been waiting for.

Be wary of Fido. Step lightly around Snowball. You can’t even trust your goldfish these days. For the animals, it’s payback time.

Fox has turned a pretty unique movie into a pretty predictable TV show.

The moms don’t dance here. No, they’re too busy fighting with dance instructor Abby Lee and squabbling with one another over whose kid is the best.

This ABC Family dramedy is part Hannah Montana, part 90210. And that turns it into, as you might guess, a decidedly mixed-bag series.

Yes indeed, the mist enveloping Bridgton is plenty dangerous. The Mist enveloping your television may be less so. But it’s still not a place I’d like to go.

Katherine Heigl plays a plucky, flawed CIA’er tasked with briefing the POTUS on the state of world affairs. And speaking of affairs, you might say she also carries on a few of her own.

While it’s certainly not the worst thing on television, it is a show that shamelessly shoots low.

NatGeo tries to keep Mars within a pretty family-friendly solar system, if not exactly in Plugged In’s orbit.

UPDATED REVIEW: Cory met world, married Topanga, had two kids and became a teacher. Now it’s time to repeat the comedic routine—this time with a girl.

Think of Jim Caviezel’s supercomputer sidekick as Santa Claus. It sees all, hears all and calculates all. But is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Will Arnett’s aging parents get divorced. Funny, right? (CBS wants to know if it helps at all that Beau Bridges plays the dad.)