Television

By RONNA RUBIN
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Country singer Craig Morgan is a busy man. The father of five co-produced his new "Little Bit of Life" disc, continues to tour extensively and is quick to answer the call to visit troops abroad as part of his on-going support of the USO.

Morgan recently found the time to stop by the set of GAC's "On The Streets" to talk with host Suzanne Alexander about his soon-to-be-released fourth album.

By TIM GOODMAN
Friday, October 27, 2006
An interesting thing happens to network programmers from May to September. That's the period when they announce their new shows and schedules in New York (May) and then roll them out to viewers at home (September).

By RICK KUSHMAN
Thursday, October 26, 2006
We are in one of those stretches when it's excruciating to watch TV. I'm talking head-splitting, eye-poking, drop-a-brick-on-your-hand painful. And it won't stop until Election Day on Nov.

By TERRY MORROW
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Andre Benjamin, half of the hip-hop duo Outkast, is turning his talents to the small screen with the animated musical "Class of 3000" (8 p.m. ET/PT, Friday, Nov.

By ROB OWEN
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The TV business is anything but predictable. Who would have thought that NBC's "ER," now in its 13th season, would have a sudden resurgence in popularity? Or that Fox's "The O.C." would begin to bottom out in year three (some would argue it began a free fall in year two)?

It's true that teen dramas, in particular, seem to have a shorter life cycle than other primetime shows, but the life expectancy of "The O.C." (9 p.m., ET/PT, Thursday, Nov.

By TERRY MORROW
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
"Masters of Horror," the Showtime anthology, began around a dinner table with ghoulish types trading stories.

They were directors of the genre, who jokingly referred to themselves as the Masters of Horror.

By SAM MCMANIS
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
If you watch a lot of TV _ oh, stop that intellectual posturing, you know you do _ you probably experience certain moments of discovery. They are not so much revelatory or epiphanic _ nothing so highfalutin _ but important insights nonetheless.

Say you're watching Jim Belushi, that quintessential thespian, on "According to Jim," and the thought suddenly hits: "Hey, why is it that hot sitcom wives pick such fat, dumpy husbands?"

Or you'll be engrossed in "7th Heaven" when you notice that no one in the Camden family says "goodbye" on the phone.

By ROB OWEN
Friday, October 20, 2006
Cliffhangers, cagey characters and super abilities all power the plot of NBC's "Heroes," which airs a marathon of reruns Sunday (8 to 11 p.m. EDT,) before a new episode debuts Monday at 9 p.m.

In a recent teleconference with reporters, executive producer Tim Kring said there's a simple reason every episode ends with a cliffhanger.

"The pilot sort of dictated it because we were introducing so many characters," he said.

That also resulted in a smattering of seemingly disparate stories.

By ROB OWEN
Friday, October 20, 2006
Who's who among the "Heroes":

_ Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a Japanese office drone, can teleport through space and time. He enthusiastically travels to America to fulfill his destiny, taking along buddy Ando (James Kyson Lee), who has the hots for Las Vegas Internet stripper...

_ Niki Sanders (Ali Larter), who displays a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality that she hides from her son, Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey).

By ROB OWEN
Friday, October 20, 2006
For the broadcast networks, the 2006-07 TV season, which began last month with the promise of an unusually high number of positive reviews for new series, has dissolved into a bad case of dashed expectations.