TV Watch

Considering all the extraordinary work Alton Brown did on Good Eats, he remains a real star in my book. Still, can he really be happy having sunk to the level of Cutthroat Kitchen?by KenYou want to know how far I go back with Food Network? When I first got cable (finally!

On last week's White Collar episode, "Out of the Frying Pan," Mozzie (Willie Garson) and Neal (Matt Bomer) planned a caper.

Bright lights in the void: I haven't watched this official trailer for Season 3 of Homeland, but you may want to. If the season turned out to be good, I didn't want it spoiled by the preview, and if it didn't, well, I didn't want to waste my time. So far, I'm happier than I could have imagined.

[Click to enlarge -- it gets really big!]by KenI resorted to my Plan C last night and watched the Breaking Bad finale in real time, and then the finale of the final-half-season after-show, Talking Bad. They were fine. No complaints about them. They did what the situation called on them to do.But I might explain that my Plan A was to schlepp to Astoria to watch the episode live on the movie screen of the Museum of the Moving Image.

OMG, another season of Eastbound and Down? Can there be any more vivid or irrefutable proof that there is no god?by KenI know there's a ritual to expressing scorn and sorrow at the new TV season, but really, I don't recall anything like this.

by KenI hadn't planned to write about Breaking Bad again until the whole series was under our collective belts, but in a post prompted by last week's episode The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum, "That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night's Breaking Bad," has raised two large issues about the relationship between TV programs and TV audiences which I think deser

This week we said good-bye to Burn Notice. by Ken* This week we said good-bye to USA's Burn Notice, after however-many seasons and however-many episodes. (If you care, you can look it up as well as I can.

Can't wait for Season 3 of Girls? Here's a tease. This post pretty much wraps up TV Watch's coverage of the show.by KenAs I believe I reported at the time, I checked out of HBO's Girls -- created by, largely written and directed by, and starring Lena Dunham -- at the outset of the last season.

At the center of it all: Eric and Tami Taylor(Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton)by KenWith the cancellation of today's Municipal Art Society walking tour to Willet's Point, Queens (I sure hope that leg comes around soon, Jack Eichenbaum!), I found myself with an unexpected day of leisure.