Do people really change? According to television, usually not. When the title character of a popular series puts himself into a sanitarium for chronic drug addiction and the psychological problems underlying it, we may actually be rooting for him to change, but we wonder what it will do to his “entertainment value.” That’s the big risk the producers of House, M.D. took last year.

To illustrate possible reactions to the serio-comic Men of a Certian Age about three friends each facing his own mid-life crisis, I’ve enlisted the help of my wife, Judith, who will provide a dueling perspective to mine.

It's a great time to be a cute blood sucking teenage boy, or a girl who loves one. What’s with this trend and why do vampires keep rising again in popular culture?

They come from above, as saviors of fact and fiction often do. They come at a time when, as one character says, the world is broken and needs fixing. They come in their beauty and power to make the earth a paradise. They are the Visitors. They are our friends. We take a look at the new sci-fi/action/drama V.

AMC’s The Prisoner promised rich production values and an interesting themes. Instead we got only confusion.

With the long running Law & Order franchise, three CSIs, Criminal Minds, Bones and the top-rated NCIS, it seems that audiences love TV criminal investigations. And seeing as how most of these series start as spin-offs of another series, CBS was eager to exploit its biggest rating success by cloning it.