"Brotherhood" ... may not be one of the all-time great crime shows, but it's certainly a very good one that improves with each episode.

''Sit Down Comedy" is really about the amiable chatter, with only a passing nod at insight.

Written by Gwyneth Hughes, the script perhaps reaches too far and falls short. The whole is somehow less than the sum of its parts. And yet Five Days rewards with enough gripping moments to make it worth investigating.

It's a light half-hour of adults acting like teens, and teens acting like teens, that won't trick you into thinking or rethinking much of anything important.

I admire this show--it's so original, and sequences such as the "Sound of Music" goof are right on. But I admire it more than I enjoy it.

Canterbury has promise but her law needs a lot of work.

Coster-Waldau makes John so alien and distant as to be annoyingly inscrutable. But in Thursday's episode, we begin to learn more particulars about John's history, and how he maintains his secret. And that's when Coster-Waldau becomes more vivid and the show begins to rise above its silly murder-of-the-week plots

"Flight of the Conchords" is one of the few TV comedies that truly can be called unique.

It's good, not great, and tonight's strong pilot gives way next week to a noticeably less stellar hour.

Aliens in America is decent, and quiet, and genuinely sweet.

Your feelings about Gossip Girl will depend on just how guilty you are willing to feel about your guilty pleasures. It can be entertaining to watch adults throw around money, attitude, and alcohol on soap operas; it can be grotesque to see teenagers doing the same things.

You feel as if you're right there in the room with the characters for a time, during which their true selves emerge slowly but surely.

A sleekly engaging pilot that, with the right character development, could turn into a sleekly engaging series.

It's a welcome addition to nonfiction television and a loyal friend to the radio show.

On The Singing Bee, it's impossible to rally for or against the many folks who hurry on and off stage, and rallying is a critical part of the fun of these mindless game shows.

Coughlan smartly underplays Jenny's reaction to the thought of losing her friend. But Nagle and her writers plug a farcical charge into the show that is quickly annoying.

I'm on board with Tara, but so far mostly for the supporting characters, whose number expands in the coming weeks to include a self-empowered "Vita-self" saleswoman who is overly curious about Tara's disorder.

It's a likable one, marred only by some awkward abridgement.

The CBS show has very little dramatic heft or distinction, but it's wily and brisk enough to engage you for an hour.

The show has the makings of a more sincere, "Gilmore Girls"-like take on female bonding.

I can't say you'll want to follow The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency religiously, like so many other HBO efforts, but it is an easy-to-like distraction.

Kings does dip in and out of predictability, when familiar Spelling soap operatics and political machinations break through the show's unique surface. But it still is a fascinating effort.

No, it's not "quality cable TV" or Top 10 list material, and it's marred by lapses into character cutesiness. But still, I liked it. It's likable.

It’s a coming of age comedy that’s raunchy and sophomoric, but, as is typical with Apatow products, it’s also character-based and at times kind of touching.

This promising series is really about a failed optimist, driven by the recession and his own midlife depression to sell his body to rich ladies.

Little Dorrit has so many virtues--indelible performances, stirring pathos, and an emotional and psychological heft unusual for Dickens--that you can forgive its one significant flaw.

The pieces don't tend to add up to much; the suspects and victims often slip out of custody too easily; and each episode's crimes dovetail with some predictability. These aren't brain teasers. Still, the series has great hypnotic allure, as the murders and deaths drive Wallander further into himself.

It's a generally pleasing but flawed production.