Kurtwood Smith

ABC announced its 2013-2014 prime time schedule on Tuesday, adding fourteen new shows and a Disney/Pixar special to its programming roster. “We are taking some big swings with groundbreaking shows this season, and staying close to our roots with...

With a 2013-14 TV schedule that mixes "stability and out-and-out ambition," ABC will air limited-run series and drop one night of "Dancing with the Stars," ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee said during a Tuesday morning conference call. ABC is...

In a pivotal moment of the Friday, April 1, premiere of CBS' "Chaos," CIA agent Rick Martinez eats a live scorpion. Surrounded by a band of machete- and gun-wielding rebels, in the middle of a desert, he's putting them on notice that he's crazy tough....

You don’t have to chop down a cherry orchard to feel the sting of lost time. Just sit and share a brandy with the people of “The Autumn Garden,” Lillian Hellman’s 1951 ensemble drama now receiving an elegant staging by......

Dancing With the Stars" and "American Idol" supplied major surprises last week. What can they do for encores this week? Quite a lot, it seems. The "Dancing" season premiere last week revealed that, yes, Kirstie Alley can move and that "Karate Kid" star...

March Madness, Elton John and four big dramas top this weekend's offerings. The best news in the drama department is "The Killing," the new series from AMC. That channel has a habit of delivering risk-taking series that become events: "Mad Men" (hooray on...

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Most-watched CBS will shift "Blue Bloods," "Rules of Engagement" and "The Defenders" to new time slots early next year. The moves focus on weak spots in the CBS lineup: 10 p.m. Wednesdays, 8:30 Thursdays and 8 Fridays....

There aren't many things in this world as funny as simple, clueless sincerity. The TV series “The Office” gets this.  “Cedar Rapids,” the new insurance salesman convention comedy starring Ed Helms, may be “The Office”....

After a stint on premium cable, Kirstie Alley is looking to get back onto network TV with a FOX comedy pilot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alley has booked the lead in "The Minister of Divine," about a former wild child who returns to her small...

Raindrops on "Lost" and whiskers on kittens Television characters in whom I am smitten Brand new episodes tied up in string These are a few of my favorite things When the TiVo breaks, when a plot development stings, when I'm feeling sad I simply remember...

Grammy winner Dave Matthews will make his TV-acting debut later this season, playing a piano prodigy on FOX's "House." The leader of the Dave Matthews Band will play a character named Patrick, who suffered an accident as a child that left him with a...