I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.