Six Feet Under (tv program)

I think you all know I can be somewhat singularly focused. So I've spent a lot of time this fall trying to drum up support for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (I know, I know, many of you think it's too pretentious, but I love it anyway) and far too...

May sweeps will soon be upon us, and this year ABC will feature one of the ratings-grabbing month's most time-honored traditions: a ripped-from-the-headlines disaster thriller. The network has scheduled a movie called "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America"...

OK, stop me if you've heard this one before: A comedy writer walks into Victors Liquor & Delicatessen in Hollywood at 12:30 Sunday afternoon, says hello to owner Bill Gotti and sits down at a table for 10. Pretty soon, a musician joins him. Then a...

The Emmys are Sunday night on NBC. Did you know? Do you care? Organizers are furrowing their brows over whether millions more viewers than usual will blow off TV's self-congratulatory spectacular, perhaps driving the ceremony to record-low ratings....

"Kidnapped" has the unfortunate problem of being the second serialized thriller about an abduction to hit the airwaves this season, five weeks behind FOX's "Vanished." But you know that adage about good things coming to those who wait? Well, here you go....

Before the sun rises in Los Angeles Thursday, Lauren Graham will know whether the new voting system for the Primetime Emmy Awards really made a difference. Graham, the star of "Gilmore Girls," is one of the poster children for the changes the Academy...

The American Film Institute has honored Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" as two of the 10 best movies of 2002. The list included a number of movies that have yet to be widely released,...

Overpowering a night that was intended as a showcase for young, hip and edgy comedy, an old-fashioned network sitcom, CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond," a much-honored network drama, NBC's "The West Wing," and a heartwarming made-for-TV movie, TNT's "Door to...

A premium cable show about a family mortuary business in Los Angeles garnered the most nominations for prime-time Emmy Awards during brief ceremonies held by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the break of dawn Thursday. "Six Feet Under" earned...

A changing of the guard took place in nominations for the 54th annual nighttime Emmy Awards announced Thursday, as an influx of new series joined the party, elbowing out an older generation of stalwarts, including "ER" and "Frasier." The most prominent...

After an uncomfortable, twice-postponed 2001 show, Emmy settled back into a big, fat, TV-loving groove Sunday, with a program that offered oodles of winning in-jokes, pleasant surprises in the awards and an ultimately strong performance from host Conan O'...

While working as a writer-producer on "Six Feet Under," Christian Taylor decided to pursue a childhood dream while chronicling it on film. The result is the slyly amusing yet poignant "Showboy," which Taylor describes as "faction." This means he knew...