TNT releases new extended “Dallas” trailer

Heather Locklear and Franklin & Bash are a perfect fit on TNT,  but that shouldn’t surprise anybody who saw her resurrect a struggling Melrose Place in the ’90s. Franklin & Bash (9pm ET Wednesdays) is one of those cable dramas that can drive a viewer crazy. I initially despised the series when it premiered two years ago, and then it kind of grew on me. Unfortunately, there was still something missing, and it turned out that something was Locklear. The main problem with the premise of Franklin & Bash is that you really have to suspend belief to accept that any firm […]

If the only information you had about Falling Skies was the cast list, you might be surprised to find out who is playing the doctor and who is the gun-wielding freedom fighter. Noah Wyle? Gotta be the doctor, right? He logged a decade or so on ER, plus he’s generally not seen as an action hero. Moon Bloodgood? Well, she’s often played “tough chick” roles in movies like Terminator Salvation that match her ridiculously badass name. But the makers of Falling Skies, TNT’s epic new alien-invasion saga that debuts Sunday, went a different way, casting Wyle as Tom Mason, a […]

It is late in the afternoon on the final day of the two-week schmooze-a-palooza that is the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. Half of the assembled critics are nursing a nagging cold that has spread through the frigid, windowless conference rooms; no one has had enough sleep. And everyone — even those of us who would watch way too much TV even if we weren’t paid to do so — has had just about enough of talking about television. Then onto the stage walks Larry Hagman in a dashing white cowboy hat, followed by Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and […]