Friends

 United States People bash "Friends" spinoff "Joey" as the worst example of NBC's tendency to extend its franchises well beyond what is desirable or logical. Yet "Parks and Recreation" is a more dispiriting example of the same trend because far more talent is going ...

Nobody was really rooting for "Joey," the ill-advised post-"Friends" spinoff starring Matt leblanc. But it would be hard to find a critic who wasn't hoping that "Parks and Recreation" would succeed. For years, Amy Poehler was one of the best things ...

By Tempo A decade ago, NBC was king. “Friends” and “ER” ruled the ratings, and back then, Zucker could have attempted to build new hits. Now, with “Friends” long gone and “ER” ending its run in May, the cupboard at NBC is bare. It has a few quality programs, but they’re the exception, not the rule. Every id...

By Tempo Monday's episode of "How I Met Your Mother" is called "The Naked Man," and CBS describes the episode thusly: '"After Ted walks into the apartment to find Robin's date sitting on the couch in the buff, the gang realizes this method might be the easiest way to get their dates into bed with them....

By Tempo By the way, one of the plotlines in Thursday’s episode has the comatose Earl concocting a fantasy about being happily married to Alyssa Milano’s character in a traditional ’60s/’70s sitcom. That story continues into next week’s episode, and it’s all very “Life on Mars”: According to the...