Criminal Minds (tv program)

2013 TV upfronts: CBS announces fall prime-time schedule

2013-05-15 06:41:00

NEW YORK -- CBS unveiled its complete fall schedule Wednesday, and the network's prime-time lineup for 2013-14 includes fewer repeats, a trend also seen at Fox and NBC. Known for its stable of high-performing multi-camera sitcoms, CBS is also slowly...

2013 TV Upfronts: 'Criminal Minds' renewed for 9th season by CBS

2013-05-09 15:28:00

"Criminal Minds," one of CBS' most solid procedurals, has been renewed for its ninth season. The drama about a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit will return with its cast intact, including leads Joe Mantegna and Thomas Gibson....

Television review: 'Hannibal' drains the mirth out of Lecter

2013-04-04 07:00:00

NBC sent out five episodes of its "Silence of the Lambs" prequel "Hannibal," and although the reasons to stop watching (when in doubt, impale a woman!) too often outweighed the reasons to continue (Hugh Dancy, tracked by a dangerous dream deer), I...

'Blue Bloods': Tom Selleck and the cop family drama rule Fridays

2013-04-06 07:30:00

NEW YORK — On a soundstage in an industrial Brooklyn neighborhood, Tom Selleck sits at the head of a prop-heavy dinner table filled with three generations of actors. As a crew goes about its preparations, there's little wisdom that Selleck won't...

NBC hopes crime thriller fans will eat 'Hannibal' up

2013-04-02 06:00:00

You just can't keep a good cannibal down. More than three decades after he first murdered and chomped his way to pop culture infamy, sophisticated serial murderer Hannibal Lecter is back, alive and well-fed. And although he has gone from the big...

‘Buffy’: James Marsters on Spike, Spock and romantic vampires

2013-02-28 15:53:17

Acceptable level of TV violence is ever shifting for viewers, execs

2013-02-15 12:15:00

To any viewer who thinks "Sons of Anarchy" is too violent, consider the bright side: At least the castration scene got … um … deleted. Kurt Sutter, creator of the drama about a California motorcycle gang, presented the idea of showing a...

John Corbett to star in CBS' potential 'NCIS: LA' spinoff

2013-02-06 13:33:00

John Corbett is getting into the CBS procedural game. The actor will star in the network's potential "NCIS: LA" spinoff. In "NCIS: Red," a mobile teams of agents are forced to live and work together as they solve crimes around the country. The back-door...

'Warm Bodies' warms box office. Joe Flacco drops bomb. Capus kaput.

2013-02-04 08:25:00

After the coffee. Before making sure my electric bill is paid up. The Skinny: I wonder if that blackout during the Super Bowl would have been as much fun without Twitter around for people to crack jokes and stay interested in the game. I just hope...

Union Rescue Mission gets a helping hand from Hollywood

2013-01-16 05:00:00

One of the newest hot spots for filming in the San Fernando Valley is a 71-acre former retirement community featuring lodge-style residences and medical buildings, surrounded by oaks, redwoods and pines, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest —...

Winter TCA: CBS' Nina Tassler on violence, 'Two and a Half Men'

2013-01-12 12:58:00

With its top-rated slate of gritty law enforcement dramas, CBS entertainment President Nina Tassler took her turn defending the network’s schedule against rising concerns about the entertainment industry’s role in societal violence. Like her...

Griffith Park was the most popular film location again in 2012

2013-01-01 18:00:00

Griffith Park, Point Dume, the 6th Street Bridge near downtown L.A. and a former community hospital in Boyle Heights reputed to be haunted ranked among the most popular film locations in 2012, according to a new survey. Eight of the top 10 sites for...

Joe Mantegna and Jeanne Tripplehorn in an episode this season of CBS' 'Criminal Minds.'

2013-03-11 00:00:00

Airs at 8 p.m. CT Wednesdays on CBS CBS' long-running series has presented many a serial killer, dubbed "Unsubs," or unknown subjects, by the FBI's Behavior Analysis Unit. Pictured, left to right: Thomas Gibson as Hotch, Shemar Moore as Morgan, and Joe Mantegna as Rossi.

2013-01-21 13:03:00

Killer: The "Unsub," or unknown subject, is tracked down by the FBI's specialized team called the Behavior Analysis Unit, which uses behavioral science and technology to find the killer. Each episode of the CBS show is devoted to a different unsub.

2013-01-18 12:33:00