It is overlong, contrived and utterly out of place on UPN. It plays like something left over that the network needs to discard before going out of business.

Not that it's not a nice show, but it is precisely the kind of production for which the word "corny" was probably coined.

"My Boys" is no improv comedy, but it also relies on unnecessary narration.

There's a nice idea in there somewhere. Now, if CBS and the show's producers can get together on changing most of it, they might have something.

Too many serial killers threaten to overwhelm The Mentalist, whose charismatic lead character can stand on his own, if the show's producers would only realize that murders committed singly can be just as interesting as serial murders, and just as difficult to solve, too

The executive producers of this series are David Mamet and Shawn Ryan, but it has none of the panache of Mamet's plays and movies such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" or "The Spanish Prisoner," and none of the blunt force of Ryan's best-known work, "The Shield" on FX.

Like this movie, most of the passengers in "Mayday" are dead on arrival.

This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward.

The end result of all that effort, however, is a miniseries that's as dull and throbbing as a severe headache.

In the CW's world, happiness is rubbing elbows with the rich and fabulous, and drawing the attention of various rich boys, while a soundtrack of chick-friendly pop tunes plays constantly in the background. If this sounds like happiness to you, then by all means feel free to join this "Privileged" class. You have nothing to waste but your time.

I doubt I will ever watch a single episode of "Courting Alex" beyond this first one.

The improvisations are sometimes so forced that I swear you can actually see the actors thinking about what to say next.

As a talk-show host... he's a rank amateur who exhibits no discernible skills.

Back to You is no brains.

It became clear to me that Cavemen is extinct on arrival.

Hr stupidity's a put-on (for her sake, I hope so), as is this entire show, whose concept is so convoluted that Fox had to devise a clumsy new term--"a comedy/reality hybrid"--to describe it.

You've heard of artificial intelligence? How about no intelligence, which is the sum total of what went into transforming a 1980s TV show nobody cares about into a new, updated version nobody will watch.

The only fear engendered by this series is the fear that the NBC programming department has been possessed by Satan.

For me, the problem really is casting. Next time one of these shows gets developed, I hope producers will resist the temptation to cast one of these skinny little pouty actresses in these commando-type roles.

This show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense.

[The] characters are so charmless, it's as if they were created on purpose to actually repel viewership - a TV first.

Yes, if you want to hear these bucketheads argue over who engages in this or that degrading sex act, then by all means watch "Sons of Hollywood." For me, however, watching this show was the equivalent of having my faced shoved into a toilet.

This show is so atrocious it should earn everyone involved in it a lifetime ban from the TV industry. [8 Oct 2000, p.107]

About as charming as a headache and just as dull. [29 Sept 2000, p.113]

The characters are all so nutty it's like being trapped in a roomful of Kramers for a half-hour. [6 Oct 2000, p.117]