“Smallville” Friday 8pm, CW After 10 seasons, this sci-fi drama about the teen who would become Superman wraps up with a double-sized series finale. “Smallville” started out with a novel concept, promising a “no tights, no flights” examination of the Superman myth filtered through the prism of mopey teen isolation. Over the years it got […]

“The Looney Tunes Show” Tuesday 8pm, Cartoon Network The old “Looney Tunes” cartoon shorts remain brilliant even decades after their original airings. Don’t believe me? Try watching any of those Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote clips. They just don’t make them like that anymore. Except they do! Cartoon Network is bringing back Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, […]

“The Voice” Tuesday 9pm, NBC “Voice” is an import of a Dutch singing show that operates much in the vein of “The X-Factor,” but with a twist. Four celebrity judges—Cee-Lo Green, country star Blake Shelton, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, and rapidly foundering pop diva Christina Aguilera—will each draft a “team” of performers, who they will […]

“Girl’s Night Out: Superstar Women of Country” Friday 9pm, CBS While male country artists are generally too earnest for my taste, I love me some lady country musicians. My iPod is loaded with Dolly, Reba, Shania, Carrie, Faith, LeAnn, Dixie Chicks, SheDaisy and the like. So naturally I’m excited for this new Academy of Country […]

“Happy Endings” Wednesday 9:30pm, ABC The airwaves are flooded with sitcoms right now, and I have a feeling that this one might get dismissed by critics or lost in the shuffle. It certainly isn’t original; a group of friends (three guys, three gals) suffer the trials and tribulations of modern romance, set in motion after […]

“Extreme Couponing” Wednesday 9 & 9:30pm, TLC My couponing skills extend to getting 50 cents off the fancier box of macaroni and cheese. But there are people who take couponing seriously, spending hours every week tracking down thousands of the circulars most of us recycle from the Sunday paper so that they can get a […]

“Body of Proof” Tuesday 10pm, ABC Dana Delaney is much missed on “Desperate Housewives,” but you can’t blame the magnetic ginger for wanting a show of her own. In this new procedural (I know, I know…) she plays Megan Hunt, a hotshot neurosurgeon who becomes a medical examiner after a car accident pushes her out […]

“Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen” Tuesday 10pm, SyFy Marcel Vigneron was the breakout star of the controversial second season of Bravo’s cooking competition, “Top Chef.” The cocky, crazily-coiffed “molecular gastronomist” (a fancy term for a chef who uses high-tech preparation techniques) was originally portrayed as the series villain, but became the underdog victim after being repeatedly bullied […]

“Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump” Tuesday 10:30pm, Comedy Central The worst-coiffed man in America is still somehow culturally relevant—and a hell of a lot wealthier than you or me—so he must be doing something right. Among the people roasting the perhaps future Virginia vintner will be comedians Whitney Cummings, Jeffrey Ross and Lisa Lampanelli, […]

“The Bachelor” Monday­ 8pm, ABC Back in 2007 Brad Womack—the bar-owning slab of beefcake selected as the lead in the 11th season of the long-lived “Bachelor” franchise—pissed off lonely women across the nation when he decided not to enter into a doomed public relationship with either of his final two gal pals. This season Womack […]