Robert Lloyd

Every week on "Holey Moley," the first-of-its-kind mini-golf competition series with Rob Riggle, Joe Tessitore, Jeannie Mai and resident golf pro Stephen Curry, 12 mini-golfers face off in a series of head-to-head, sudden-death matchups.

Steph Curry, game-show host? For the broadcast networks, summer TV is all in good fun

June 21, 2019 at 7:25 p.m.

Once upon a time, before cable and satellite and streaming platforms, there were three (then four, then five, then six, then five) major broadcast networks, and television ran by their...

Review: ‘The Name of the Rose’

May 23, 2019 at 2:45 p.m.

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco's 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel "The Name of the Rose" begins the same week that HBO's "Game...

"I Love Lucy" brought the three-camera sitcom to TV, and with it a more stage-like set.

‘The Big Bang Theory’ is ending, but we shouldn’t let multi-cam sitcoms die. Here’s why

May 7, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

In the beginning was the word and the word was "Lucy." In 1951, at the dawn of television, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz brought forth a new form of comedy:...

Cast members including Dale Darr as a Klingon, were performing during a scene from the Star Trek fan film Hidden Frontier at the UCI Arboretum in Irvine.

10 essential ‘Game of Thrones’ fan films reviewed, the most professional to most lovable

May 10, 2019 at 6:29 a.m.

I am a fan of fandom. The creative passion an audience brings to its relationship with culture — a series of books, a pop group, a film franchise or a...

Dax Shepard as Mike, left, and Lake Bell as Rio in ABC's "Bless This Mess."

In ABC’s ‘Bless This Mess,’ the clueless hipster as comedy target

April 16, 2019 at 2:43 p.m.

"Bless This Mess," which begins its six-episode run Tuesday on ABC, finds Lake Bell and Dax Shepard as Rio and Mike, leaving New York City for the complicated simplicity of...

In ABC's "The Fix," co-created by Marcia Clark, Robin Tunney plays an ex-deputy D.A. called back to prosecute a case against a man she had formerly failed to convict.

Is Marcia Clark’s legal drama ‘The Fix’ revenge fantasy for O.J. Simpson case?

August 8, 2019 at 9:03 a.m.

Marcia Clark — whom you may recall as the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, or more recently as a character played by Emmy-winning Sarah Paulson in FX's...

Review: Amazon’s thrillers ‘The Widow’ and ‘White Dragon’ are potato-chip bingeable

March 1, 2019 at 3:07 p.m.

When you strip away the distinguishing details, there are only so many stories to tell. But the similarities between two new Amazon Prime series — “The Widow,” which premieres Friday,...

‘Miracle Workers’ review: Steve Buscemi is a slacker God and Daniel Radcliffe is the angel Craig

February 12, 2019 at 3:24 p.m.

The limited series "Miracle Workers," which begins Tuesday on TBS, adapts creator Simon Rich's 2012 comic novel of Heaven and Earth (but mostly Heaven), "What in God's Name?" Rich, whose...

Review: Never mind the joke title, ‘PEN15’ may be the year’s best new show

February 8, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

The juvenile joke of the title and the oddness of its casting notwithstanding, Hulu's ”PEN15,” in which grown-up actresses Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star as 13-year-old middle-schoolers amid an...

Review: ‘Russian Doll,’ a beautiful puzzle of a series so good you’ll watch it twice

February 6, 2019 at 12:50 p.m.

“Russian Doll,” which begins streaming in its eight-episode entirety Friday on Netflix, is a beautiful puzzle piece, a circular, multiplane, existential mystery-comedy set in the villages of Lower Manhattan. Peopled...

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