The Mentalist floats (or sinks) on the charms of its star, Simon Baker.

Copycatted from an Australian TV template, Kath & Kim wants to be a combo platter of Absolutely Fabulous and Gilmore Girls.

Even after the novelty wore off the BBC original of this time-traveling cop show, there was a remarkably squalid Manchester to contemplate

Flesh eaters from J.J. Abrams and bloodsuckers from Alan Ball. Oh my.

Steven Bochco’s Raising the Bar lowers it further.

And shadowy detectives run amok across the cable dial.

You don’t have to be the least bit interested in which clandestine government agency decided that Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) wasn’t worth his spy-craft cover story.

Kyra Sedgwick’s Brenda Johnson is back for another summer season at the Los Angeles Police Department.

If you were paying attention to the bonus episodes of Holly Hunter’s police-detective series in December, you now know that the biggest issue in Grace Hanadarko’s disorderly life was her childhood molestation by a Roman Catholic priest.

From the folks who brought you The Wire, a Baghdad dystopia that’s bleaker than Baltimore.