Robert Lloyd

Comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim at AOL Studios in New York on July 7, 2015 in New York City.

Review: Absurd and awful, Adult Swim is no escape. But it makes surreal times less strange

March 28, 2020 at 11:56 a.m.

Adult Swim, the programming bloc that shares space with Cartoon Network — coming in after dark like a disreputable cousin with a flask in its back pocket — is a...

This combination of photos show, from left, host Jimmy Fallon on the set of "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," on Feb. 3, 2020, from left, host Trevor Noah on the set of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and host Stephen Colbert on the set of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Jan. 30, 2020.

Want solidarity in the time of coronavirus? Look no further than late-night TV

March 23, 2020 at 1:24 p.m.

Back in the old days — a couple of weeks ago — live late-night television, where comedy and current events meet and mingle, was a regular event. Things are different...

Commentary: We already watch too much TV. Coronavirus may push us over the edge

March 19, 2020 at 9:32 p.m.

Congratulations! You've decided to act like a responsible adult and stay home as much as possible in the coming days/weeks/months/years/decades/centuries/millenniums to help "flatten the curve" of the novel coronavirus COVID-19....

Review: ‘The Tonight Show’ hosts K-pop sensation BTS for a perfectly fine late-night stunt

February 25, 2020 at 4:08 p.m.

Dear diary — Monday, 11;15 p.m. ET. BTS are about to take over NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!" So exciting! I have yet to knowingly hear their music,...

Annie Murphy (from left), Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Dan Levy from the series "Schitt's Creek."

For the cast of ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ the end is near. That means one thing: heartache

January 7, 2020 at 1:45 p.m.

To get to the Rosebud Motel, proprietors Johnny Rose and Stevie Budd, you drive northwest from Toronto for an hour, through fields of suburban McMansions, flat farmland giving way to...

Allison Tolman is a Long Island police chief taking care of a mysterious child in ABC's "Emergence."

Commentary: In defense of network television

November 1, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

The fall came, and as in decades of falls before it, the broadcast networks rolled out a passel of new TV shows. For many years, this audiovisual harvest festival arrived...

Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen) shares a moment with her daemon, Pan (Kit Connor), in HBO's adaptation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials."

HBO’s excellent ‘His Dark Materials’ finally gets ‘The Golden Compass’ right

October 25, 2019 at 7:50 p.m.

In 2007, "The Golden Compass," the first volume of "His Dark Materials," Philip Pullman's alternate-world, cosmological science fantasy for young people, became a movie. It had a starry cast that...

Review: Which episodes of Amazon’s ‘Modern Love’ are worth your time? Use our handy guide

October 20, 2019 at 1:29 p.m.

"Modern Love," a new series from Amazon, takes its name, theme and most of its main characters and story lines, such as they are, from a weekly column in the...

Christopher Evan Welch, Dallas Roberts, Natalie Gold in "Rubicon".

The 10 best streaming TV shows you probably aren’t watching

October 18, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

In Dr. Seuss' seminal work "On Beyond Zebra," we are led beyond the customary 26 letters of the alphabet to discover obscure new characters with particular uses. So it is...

On the return of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ and the art of talking about craft

October 15, 2019 at 8:12 p.m.

"Inside the Actors Studio," a show in which famous actors talk about their craft, returned to television Sunday on a new network, Ovation, and with rotating hosts in place of...

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