If you’ll watch only one television program on the catastrophe in Iraq, make it this one.

Paul Giamatti’s John Adams is no swashbuckler, but the HBO show rises like a hot-air balloon.

The kooky, mystical Eli Stone asks, “What Would George Michael Do?”

The broke chemistry teacher in Breaking Bad turns out to be pretty handy in a meth lab.

The Terminator franchise lands on television with atavistic androids and a sizzling Sarah Connor.

The Wire draws to a close, but not before zeroing in on one more failed institution.

A four-part finale cracks the riddle of Saving Grace’s engrossing, self-destructive lead.

Will this be the season Project Runway falls out of fashion?

Big-shot crime novelists talk about true cases they didn’t fictionalize—but maybe should have.

Not only is this “American Masters” valentine to the great comedienne well deserved and overdue, but it’s surprisingly adequate to its surpassing task.