Mary McNamara, Television Critic

Agatha Christie's beloved spinster is back on PBS. Her first case: 'A Pocket...




She embodied many fairly significant shifts in how women were viewed, on...




Whoopi Goldberg and Gary Cole costar in second season premiere of the recovery...




Blessedly, there's no singing in the ABC Family show, just lots of gymnastics...




Unlike other couples-based reality shows, 'Wedding' takes holy matrimony...




Jada Pinkett Smith's nurse is a tough rule-breaker, but the TNT show is no groundbreaker.




Edie Falco is a highly competent but drug-using ER nurse on a new Showtime...




Theater fans, take note. Andrew Lloyd Webber put out a call for a Maria in...




But in reality, this Sci Fi movie is bad, bad, bad, from the script to the...




The brutes and their guns who helped build a new style of TV show have been...




The lesson that the movie, with its G rating and Disney imprimatur, imparts is...




An apparently cataclysmic financial disaster begins our tale -- an experiment in...




One gut-wrenching episode from 1995 still packs a powerful punch, and a...




Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic play a mystery writer and a cop working...




Tom Selleck's good-guy appeal and a strong supporting cast make for an...




Note to Hugh Jackman: What was that all about?



Kevin Bacon gives a riveting performance as a Marine who escorts the casket of a...




Four women's romantic lives are jammed with issues you've seen before. But the...




Coming together to put on a show is just plain fun.




Miniseries with Dougray Scott has intrigue and accents.




'The Last Templar' is the latest in the hot quest-for-holy-relic trend. It knows...








The Sherlock Holmes template has worked so well on “House" that really it was only a matter of time...




The show never fully recovered after an opening clunker thanks to the five...



It's youth versus maturity. Change versus experience. A lot like our presidential race. The results could...




No one's saying it's easy to give those big, broody performances.




Long-lost relatives and loved ones are reunited, and well, tears flow.




The National Geographic Channel show returns with a compelling report on dogs...




In an Olympics in which the host country almost seems to be trying too hard to...




Rory Kennedy's documentary is a too-short encounter with the dogged, last-of-...




Campbell, the former member of 2 Live Crew, juggles a porn career, two sons...




Year after year, Wilkinson gives some of the finest performances seen in...




Bravo's new reality series is more about self-promotion than romance.




The suburbs are left behind, but the show remains a delectable trifle.




Showtime's series about the life of a prostitute is surprisingly boring.




Mom turns her children on to her music. Then it's a night out at a show for...




'The Deadliest Catch' and 'Ax Men' show gritty work. Fictional TV is stuck in...




The leads are out and the quirky best friends are in: See the successes of 'Baby...




Child carriers, strollers and other equipment that help the trip roll more smoothly.




New comedy tries to be like 'Fresh Prince,' but this show oozes offensive...




A quick primer will get you up to light speed on one the best shows on...




It's got a talented cast, but 'Miss Guided' rehashes a well-worn premise:...