Just as your disappointment fades over last fall’s new shows (Standoff), here come the midseason premieres to re-stoke your excitement.

This thoughtful, earnest, and perhaps a shade too on-the-one-hand, on-the-other mini-series, escorting us with many a wise talking head emphasizes one irony while ignoring another.

It’s a new day for 24, but the show seems to suffer from even more credibility issues. And is Jack Bauer feeling guilty or what?

There is little new to stare at in Courteney Cox’s smooth Dirt—save for the show’s troubled paparazzo.

The mini-series Tsunami reveals what was lost, and what remained.

3 Lbs. joins Grey’s Anatomy in the sexed-up hospital genre: plenty of sin, skin, and scalpels.

With the final installment of Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren says good-bye to her greatest role.

Here come the TV screamies: quickie horror flicks that put the “low” in “Halloween.”

A documentary about Daniel Pearl and his murderer charts a tragic collision between two surprising men.

When you’ve got Peter O’Toole in a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series, who cares how many liberties teleplaywright Russell T. Davies took with the confabulations of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova?