Sex and the City (tv program)

Monica Potter's close call with her 'Parenthood' cancer story

2013-06-13 08:30:00

Monica Potter, who plays Kristina Braverman on NBC's sleeper hit "Parenthood" (just renewed for a fifth season), had an emotional story about breast cancer this past season that had multitudes of fans clinging to boxes of Kleenex. And while it's not new...

'The Sopranos' tops WGA's top 101 TV shows of all time

2013-06-03 05:00:00

They say that television is a writer's medium, so it makes sense that the Writers Guild of America would have its own list of the 101 greatest TV shows of all time. At the top of the list is "The Sopranos," HBO's multiple award-winning hit series that...

CW ventures further into sci-fi / fantasy with new fall shows

2013-05-17 05:00:00

NEW YORK — The CW is increasing its stock in fantastical television. The network, often overlooked when measured against its larger broadcast competitors, is building on its efforts to broaden its target 18- to 34-year-old audience. It's adding...

CW renews 'Carrie Diaries,' 'Nikita,' adds four new dramas

2013-05-09 16:26:00

The '80s live on at The CW: modest-performing "The Carrie Diaries" will return next season, along with spy drama "Nikita." And the network is adding four dramas to its 2013-14 schedule, most rapt in the sci-fi world. That takes "Nikita," which...

NBC's 'Chicago Fire' has kindled a following

2013-04-22 05:00:00

NBC's "Chicago Fire" did not exactly generate a lot of heat when it launched last fall. The drama about the truck and rescue squads of a fictional Chicago firehouse lacked the moody darkness, charismatic antiheroes and explosive violence of critical...

TV networks look to pilots to help them ascend in ratings

2013-04-24 07:00:00

There are monsters and vampires, science fiction, trips back and forward through time, supernatural themes and other out-of-this-world scenarios in the television pilots vying for space on the networks' fall schedules. The five major networks,...

It's all smiles at Cafe Grumpy

2013-03-23 08:00:00

NEW YORK — Until last year, Caf� Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was mostly known as a destination for the serious coffee drinker, the type of place where each modestly sized cup is individually brewed and goes for $4 a pop. Now, thanks to "Girls,...

Monday's TV Highlights: 'Independent Lens: Soul Food Junkies'

2013-01-13 20:05:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 13 - 19, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- �� SERIES The Carrie Diaries: In this new prequel series, AnnaSophia Robb makes a delightfully believable teenage Carrie...

Skyline not quite right in CW's 1984 New York-set 'Carrie Diaries'

2013-01-15 09:09:00

The new CW drama "The Carrie Diaries" -- a prequel to the HBO hit "Sex and the City" about a teenage Carrie Bradshaw -- goes out of its way to try to get 1980s New York City right. When Carrie hits the Big Apple, we see a graffiti-covered subway train...

'Carrie Diaries' fills in the Blahniks on 'Sex and the City' lead

2013-01-06 09:00:00

NEW YORK — For all her designer clothes and lavish amounts of closet space, Carrie Bradshaw always sorely lacked one thing: a back story. Over the course of "Sex and the City's" six seasons, it often seemed as if Carrie had been hatched in a lab...

'Girls' is back, with flak jackets at the ready

2013-01-06 12:00:00

Aspiring cultural critics of the world, get those pitches ready: "Girls," the show that inspired a thousand think pieces, is back. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, a Manhattan native who shot her first feature film, "Tiny Furniture," fresh out of...

Daum: Obama and the single girl

2012-11-08 00:00:00

As if it weren't enough that Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old writing/directing/acting phenom who started a revolution this year with her HBO series "Girls," scored a $3.5-million book deal and has been granted the unofficial but unimpeachable title of "voice...

Why to watch: "Sex and the City" it is not, but "The Carrie Diaries" is daring and exciting in its own way.

2013-06-17 00:00:00

When perusing the coming new fall television offerings, you're faced with a grim reality: Most of them look awful. Shocker, we know.

2012-09-11 14:40:00

Drama Premise: The lives and work of a squad of Chicago firefighters, who are dealing with the loss of one of their own.

2012-05-11 00:00:00