Is it too early to call the new fall TV season a wash-out? Having watched the pilots for most of the network shows, I've come away with that sick fee...

Denial, Aidan Quinn says, is a persistent force that's hard to fight. That's true whether it's one man looking at his own life - or the government of...

Monk: The Complete Series ($249.98; Universal) is out on DVD and it's a compulsively thorough job that's worthy of the OCD man himself. I've been ...

No question about it, Detective Jane Tennison is one of the great TV characters of all time. And if you say "one of the great female TV characters," then you're little better than the casually sexist men she has to deal with.

In the US we create unidimensional detectives because we're focused on one-upping each other on plot devices that show the weirdest ways to die or the coolest tricks in the lab.