Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.