Late on Sunday nights when I was a kid I used to sneak downstairs to our family TV room, where more often than not my father was asleep in his chair, the news or sitcom reruns droning on. I would do my best to slip the remote control from off his chair, turn down the volume and switch the channel. I

Showtime's 'Homeland' asks, when the world turns to tempest, who is crazy and who is sane?

Last year a number of critics complained that there are actually now so many good shows on television (mostly on cable) that they could no longer keep up with them all.And yet they keep on coming. Over the next few weeks in Hollywood’s small screen version of Christmas dozens of new and return

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Salvation and surprise in HBO's 'Game of Thrones'

Odds are, if you have checked out the entertainment section of a newspaper recently, you have heard something about House of Cards, Netflix’s first major original series. Perhaps you have heard the fact that in February Netflix released all 13 episodes of the program’s first season at on