Jay Leno returns to “The Tonight Show” berth Monday night, but the late-night television landscape has changed dramatically since the last time he ascended to this coveted seat back in 1992, when Johnny Carson departed.
Cable, Internet, and the DVR have fragmented audiences. A whole new generation of media consumers has grown up with little, if [...]

Who would have guessed the man who created Vic Mackey began his career on My Two Dads? Shawn Ryan went on to create CBS’ The Unit, and is now the executive producer of Fox’sLie to Me. But his biggest gift to television has been The Shield, which set the standard for basic cable drama and proved cable dramas could [...]

No one can stretch a day out like ‘24′, where no one ever has to eat or use a bathroom. But it seems some things are worth halting for: Fox has temporarily suspended production of the hit show because star Kiefer Sutherland has to have surgery.
Details of the nature of the surgery were not instantly available, but Fox [...]

Storyboard TV, an online community of scriptwriters, television producers, and TV enthusiasts, launches its website today with a script contest awarding a $5,000 prize to the writer with the best pilot for a television drama. At storyboardtv.com, writers can share TV scripts for original shows with their potential audience members, while soliciting feedback and gauging [...]

Steve Sabol, the easygoing president of NFL Films and one of football’s great storytellers, has a handwritten sign on his desk that reads, “The buck doesn’t even pause here.”
Like his father Ed before him, Sabol wants his company’s filmmakers to spread their creative wings, take risks, find new ways to tell stories.
It’s that creativity that [...]

This last decade of TV has added more excitement to our lives than most other decades of TV ever has.
It has been a decade that included saying goodbye to “Friends” and hello to the 22nd season of “The Real World” and 19th season of “Survivor.” A period of time in which “The Shield,” “Monk,” “The [...]

It was a banner decade for TV, especially the rocket boom of cable TV. With more promising writing and characters on TV than the movies, the TV landscape has attracted some big name talents to shine as regulars from the silver screen.
From 2000-’09, we spent quality time with cops and robbers, singers and Sopranos — [...]

As a “lifelong practitioner of the martial arts,” Steven Seagal says he is trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
“When the world is speeding by for others, I see things for what they are,” the aging action hero intones in an episode of his new A&E show, “Steven Seagal: Lawman,” which premieres tonight. [...]

AMC doesn’t do a tremendous amount of original programming, but when it does, it does it well. After two critically acclaimed series, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, the network is broacasting its second miniseries, a six-episode remake of the 1960s 17-part series The Prisoner, originally broadcast on ITV in the UK.
In the update, James Caviezel [...]

Fans of Dr. James Wilson, Robert Sean Leonard’s character on “House,” have a lot to look forward to in the Nov. 30 episode – titled “Wilson.”  Leonard’s screen time has increased this season, since Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House moved in with Wilson, but that’s nothing compared to the upcoming episode.
“He’s examined more,” Leonard said, in [...]