Lost

By Tim Surette You're back! Great. Now circle February 2 in bright red ink and paste a picture of Matthew Fox in there. That's when Lost, network television's gift to quality entertainment lovers, returns for its final season.

By Tim Surette The final season of Lost is coming up soon ("early 2010" is what we know so far), and so far, there's been a grand total of zero new footage released. Though we saw some cheeky clips at Comic-Con promoting the sixth and final season of television's most mysterious program, not one new frame of...

By Tim Surette Joshua Jackson: The next sequence of episodes reveals big things about the characters they focus on. There [was last week's] Broyles episode, there's a Walter episode, and there's an observer episode. And they serve to give you insight into the backstory of each of of these characters.

By Richard Lawson So that was the first sign that this might not be Robin's episode to shine. Though, truthfully, no episode has been Robin's to shine. If Robin were paint she wouldn't be glossy. She'd just be flat and matte. Dull. Unshining. Sigh. After she went, some other people made some other stuff. Jennifer, ak...

By Tim Surette 2. The story started out too slow: Joss, at the behest of Fox, waited too long to get down to the nitty gritty. By that time (five episodes into the first season) most had already—and justifiably so—given up on the program. A simple tease of the apocalypse from "Epitaph One" early in the show's r...

By Tim Surette But ABC is all hexes. The network has ordered five more episodes of new forensics drama The Forgotten, starring Christian Slater. In other ABC news, the network has passed on reality show Let's Dance, which was to air later this month. Thank God. Did we really need to see C-list celebrities ree...

By Tim Surette Sons of Anarchy is doing everything right this year, but what it's doing best is being consistent. These days, even the best shows on television are lucky to achieve an 80-percent hit-to-miss rate. There have been plenty of episodes of Lost that were just "okay," a Breaking Bad episode here...

By Richard Lawson Richard Lawson and Stefanie Lee put their heads together one last time for the Mad Men Season 3 finale. The episode marked a turning point in the lives of the ladies and gents of Sterling Cooper, who have reached new professional highs while sinking to personal lows. What a way to end the seaso...

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By Richard Lawson Not only are we getting a new J.J. Abrams series, but now he's going to direct the pilot, just like he brilliantly did for Lost. Abrams has expressed interest in helming the first installment of NBC's Undercovers, a spy series cooked up in the nerd Valhalla that is Abrams' brain box. [THR]

By Tim Surette I am a huge, huge Lost fan. I was doing this movie Piranha 3D, which is going to be insane, and the casting director is really good friends with Damon and Carlton. And Damon had an idea to do this thing at Comic-Con, and he asked [the casting director], "Do you know Paul Scheer?" I had met Damon bef...

By Tim Surette If she stays away, she'll join Harold Perrineau, who played Michael "Waaaaalt!" Dawson, as the only (known) former character not returning (we'll see who makes the final cut). Perrineau apparently has not been asked to return... yet?

By David Knox Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars is one of the tempting shows to be screened by the ABC over the summer break. Other series will include Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights, new episodes of Gavin & Stacey, Wild at Heart, Shrink Rap, concerts from U2 and Seal, and a Christmas spec...

By Tim Surette But as I was watching last night's episode of The BBT, "The Cornhusker Vortex," an unusual thought crept into my brain: "This episode isn't as good as the rest of this season's episodes." What followed was disappointment, as I hoped—nay, yearned—for something better. Something as good as...

By Richard Lawson Richard, if I could re-title this episode, I think I’d call it “Babysitting.” And I’m not talking about hangin’ out with Sally or Bobby or even Roger Sterling’s now-wedded offspring and watching Disney movies and braiding their hair. Nope. I’m talking about the adults. This episode opened u...

By Richard Lawson So evs, eybody was cooking TV dinners and then Padma and the big fat Italian guy came around to taste the food. The big fat Italian guy just like ate everything there was and was like "Gobble gobble gobble." He actually said "gobble gobble gobble" and then ate the plate and Padma, grooving on th...

By Stefanie Lee What’s it like to work with all these veterans? You're acting alongside Courteney Cox, Busy Phillipps, Christa-Miller Lawrence, and Ian Gomez, to name a few. What’s it like to have a hot TV mom? What’s your favorite TV show? Cougar Town airs on Wednesdays at 9:30pm on ABC.

By Molly McAleer It's called "Black Swan," and I co-wrote it with Lisa Zwerling, who's the co-executive producer of FlashForward. Writing and shooting the episode [which aired on October 15] was the most fun and the most hard work I've ever had on an episode of live-action television Also: while we were sh...

By Stefanie Lee 9 p.m., ABC Modern FamilyManny's (Rico Rodriguez) outfit incites a debate, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) fight over caring for Lily, and Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) have the house to themselves.

By Richard Lawson I certainly hope Roger and Joan get back together. I’ve been rooting for them the whole time, and I do think that Roger was telling the truth when he told Annabelle Mathis that she wasn’t The One. Joan is, and always will be, The One — though she and Roger are about as start-crossed as lovers can g...

By Richard Lawson Without a doubt the most frightening, most disturbing episode in the entirety of The X-Files' many-season run, "Home" is terrifying because it doesn't really traffic in the supernatural--it could be real. Well, sure, it's highly unlikely that there would actually be a murderous famil...

By David Knox s pick of the best TV shows on Aussie screens this week. Jamie's American Road Trip Airs: 7:30pm Monday on TEN Criminal Minds Airs: 9:30pm Monday on Seven Nurse Jackie Airs: 10:35pm Monday on TEN Survivor Airs: 8:30pm Tuesday on GO! All Saints

By Stefanie Lee Who is guest-starring on the show? Tony Hale [and] Michael Higgins. Also, I believe Fisher Stevens is back. We had Adam Goldberg come on the show. So, some fun, exciting actors that are popping into our world, which is nice. Have you ever considered writing or directing for TV?

By Stefanie Lee Also on the airwaves ... Dancing with the Stars, 8 p.m., ABC So You Think You Can Dance, 8 p.m., FOX Lincoln Heights, 8 p.m., ABC Family Lie To Me, 9 p.m., FOX Trauma, 9 p.m., NBC Gossip Girl, 9 p.m., CW Greek, 9 p.m., ABC Family What are you watching tonight?

By Tim Surette ABC's FlashForward entered the fall season as one of television's most anticipated series, largely because there were so many comparisons to the excellent Lost. Featuring common cast members, mind-bending mysteries, and some nifty Lost cross-promotion, the comparisons were justi...

By Tim Surette So what's the dealio? The obvious answer is yet more supporting evidence that the plan set into action by Lost's Jack worked; that is, the detonation of Jughead the H-Bomb did "reset" events and the crash of Oceanic 815 never existed. Lost producers haven't exactly been keeping this under...