The Departed (R) See the review on page 4. Century Cinemas at Del Monte in Monterey, Northridge and Maya Cinemas in Salinas, Green Valley in Watsonville.
By Chris Lawrence The Boob Tube. The Idiot Box. The Thing in the Corner You're Afraid to Turn Away From Because It Requires the Same Devotion You'd Otherwise Give a Loved One. Not quite as catchy, is it? TV was never designed to be complicated.
By Diane Werts, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Sep. 17--SUNDAY Tia Mowry becomes a pro football player's significant other in this "Girlfriends" spinoff. We become further persuaded the comic cleverness of "Everybody Hates Chris" is some fifth-network fluke.
With new networks launching and several programming trends occurring simultaneously, the Fall 2006 TV season beckons with promise. Generally speaking, the quality of new series is better than usual with minimal stinkers and even fewer middle-of-the-road shows.
I know, I know it's easy, popular and fun to complain that there's nothing good on TV anymore. And some of us get paid to complain about what's on television.
By Alan Pergament It is deja vu all over again. Many of the pilots for the new television season -- especially on NBC and ABC -- are so good, that I'm having a "Lost"-like flashback to my first year as a television critic.
