If ever a television series captured the gritty essence of police work, it wasn’t “Dragnet,” with its just-the-facts dispassion, or “Hill Street Blues,” with its urban blight, or any version of “Law & ...

Do you still laugh whenever you remember Paul Giamatti in Sideways, taking Thomas Haden Church aside to hiss the warning, “I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot”? If Giamatti’s particular brand of ...

Barney the Purple Dinosaur is routinely held up as the epitome of sappy children’s entertainment. Thousands of anti-Barney websites haunt the Internet. But the children’s TV and music icon must be ...