Jay O. Sanders

Because next Thursday is the final Thursday of the 2012-13 TV season, some series are calling it quits a week early. "Person of Interest" wraps up a highly successful season at 9 p.m. on CBS. Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson) gain news...

Thursday television offers a TV legend (or two), a reality show ejection and a season finale (or two). The most-watched show is likely to be "The Big Bang Theory," which enlists Bob Newhart to play Professor Proton, a TV host who dazzled Leonard and...

Bob Newhart is back in prime time, and TV's most popular sitcom has him. On "The Big Bang Theory," Newhart will play Professor Proton, a TV host who dazzled Leonard and Sheldon as children. Newhart stars in the episode at 8 p.m. Thursday on CBS. TV...

It was a big summer for superheroes, and even though this DC Comics adaptation wasn't the best-reviewed of those movies, director Martin Campbell ("Casino Royale") provides genre fans a lot of fantastic sights to look at. Ryan Reynolds trades on his...

"Green Lantern" struck me as a particularly useless blockbuster. It's ugly, it's uncreative and it's opening in a season with no shortage of better comic book movies.  I want everyone to have a fun time at the movies, so try salvaging the...

A year ago, one of the longest-running drama series in television history came to a close. A year later, one of its spinoffs is ending, with the luxury of knowing in advance. And that may have helped get its original stars back. After premiering on...

When movie actors consider stepping into television, the name Hallmark doesn't hurt. Two such performers didn't waste time in agreeing to make the celebrated Hallmark Hall of Fame's 229th entry. Chris Klein ("American Pie") and Gretchen Mol ("The...

Friday April 10, 1998      It's as funny as a banana peel. Or, a guy on laughing gas getting a root canal from a buxom blond. Or, take my wife . . . please!      It's vaudeville with a touch of burlesque, a reunion of Mutt and Jeff. It's "The Sunshine...

Friday October 3, 1997      Longtime Hollywood producer David Brown says in the production notes for "Kiss the Girls" that he had been so frightened by John Patterson's source novel that he had to close the blinds in his house while reading it. That's...

Friday October 3, 1997      When the Irish finally take over the world, it'll be the likes of "The Matchmaker" that people look back on and say, "Ahhhh, that's how they caught us with our pants down. . . . "      You know the movie drill: singing,...

Margot Kidder is back, looking far too young and beautiful to be the mother of a 30-year-old son, and giving a beguiling performance as an easygoing parent in Stephen Kijak's skittish "Never Met Picasso." It's a wry comedy, decidedly on the callow side,...

Friday December 12, 1997      The chemistry between Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley is so good it's too bad that "For Richer or Poorer" isn't as much fun as they are.      They're cast as a Donald and Ivana Trump-like couple who've soured on each other...