Yvonne Strahovski went from fighting crime to committing it. On Chuck Strahovski played tough-as-nails agent Sarah Walker, who was tasked with protecting Zachary Levi's Chuck but ended up falling for him. Last season on Dexer, Strahovski hopped over to the other side of the law when she inhabited the role...

The Tudors. The Borgias. Vikings. If you've watched a television period drama in the last few years, there's a good chance it was scored by composer Trevor Morris. Morris has become a veritable time-traveler, musically taking us back to the distant past with a modern twist.

His score for...

Showtime's papal drama The Borgias, set to return for season three on April 14, really couldn't have picked a better time to return. Since the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the papacy has suddenly become a hot topic. The world recently watched a chimney for days as a new...

Trevor Morris knows a thing or two about scoring big, historic moments. From Anne Boleyn's execution on The Tudors to the battling Vikings on History Channel's new series of the same name, Morris has become a go-to for the modern historical tale. Now Morris is moving from composing for Mount...

Ella Rae Peck knows a thing or two about portraying the lives of New York's scandalous elite. Peck joined the CW's Gossip Girl in its fifth season as Serena's (real) cousin Lola Rhodes. Now she's returned to the city of scandalous Upper East Siders as the youngest daughter of the...

In the landscape of television sitcoms, it appears that sweetness is winning out over cynicism. Where the jokey format was once overrun with cynical takes about everything from work to the human condition, now audiences are cheering on a more cheerful batch of comedies.

This was certainly the case in...

It's easy to see the world of FX's western drama Justified as particularly male. After all, the show primarily follows U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and his dark mirror, criminal Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins). It's a show where it's easy to ignore the contributions and importance of the female...

A werewolf, a vampire and a ghost don't sound like they would make beautiful music together, but for two season on SyFy's Being Human composer FM Le Sieur has scored the ups and downs of these supernatural roommates.

Now Le Sieur is putting out a collection of the music...

The holiday season is upon us once again, which can only mean one thing: it's time to get mad at another best-of list! Year-end lists are a holiday tradition along the lines of mistletoe and eggnog. Some people love it and some people hate it, but like clockwork, every year...

Mad Men has always been interested in the objectification of women, in how women are treated like ownable property and their bodies like sellable commodities. It's an important topic and one that is no less relevant today.

A recent study in Psychological Science underlines this point, showing that...

"We are family. We shall achieve the greatness that is your birthright. Together," says Jeremy Iron's Borgia pope in the season opener of Showtime's addictive historical drama The Borgias. These Borgias might be family, but it seems doubtful that the titular clan will ever be as united as their pontiff...

"Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret" goes the tag line to ABC Family's breakaway hit Pretty Little Liars. It sets up viewers to expect a certain kind of now-familiar teen trope: pretty people doing terrible things in nice clothes. What it doesn't prime viewers for is the...

As viewers, we've all had the experience of watching a show and just not connecting with a character. There are always going to be characters populating the dial that just annoy us. What can shows do to make these characters more palatable? How about embracing the very things people don't...

Gossip Girl, you know I love you but we have to talk. I've been a longtime fan of yours but the current fifth season really isn't your gossipy best. I say this with all my XOXO but it's hard to change without talking about the problems.

So let's talk...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost walk into an apartment. The premise of Syfy's BBC remake Being Human, back for a second season January 16th, might sound like the beginning of a joke but the show takes itself deadly seriously.

Strap on your Stetsons because FX's Emmy-winning hit Justified is returning on Jan. 17 for a third season. It's been far too long since we've checked in with sarcastic law man Raylan Givens and watching the first four episodes I realized how good it felt to be back in the...

Every USA Network ad boasts about its characters. Apparently, at USA Network they are welcome. This has lead USA to develop a crop of shows in the Monk mold: big stand-out characters doing wacky things. This isn't to disparage the formula because it produces some very entertaining programming. Just this...

I recently stumbled upon the Canadian sitcom Men With Brooms, which aired last year on the CBC channel in Canada. Men With Brooms wasn't picked up for a second season, making the 12 episodes of the first season the entire run of the series. That's a real shame in my...

In part one of our interview with The Borgias' David Oakes we talked about what audiences could expect for Juan in the show's upcoming second season. In part two of our interview we discuss with Oakes the other Borgia show, what it's like working with Jeremy Irons, cast...

Showtime's drama The Borgias is based on the infamous pope of that name and his even more infamous children. Like all good soapy historical dramas, The Borgias is full of sex, murder, inappropriate sibling relationships and very pretty costumes. Ahead of the release of the first season on...