The miniseries asks a lot of patience on the part of viewers and gives too little in return.

It is indeed sinfully bad.... The plot is predictable and the acting generally hammy.

Backpakers benefits from filming on location in Europe but that can’t make up for the lowest common denominator escapades, which play like an unfunny, made-for-TV “Road Trip.”

Fox executives could have saved substantial production costs and achieved basically the same boring result by filming 14 randy monkeys in a cage containing only 10 bananas.

A soapy, shallow look at how gossip is currency in Hollywood.

"Desire" features better production values than a daytime soap, but just as wooden acting by its no-name cast and terrible dialogue.

Hank is the kind of show Dr. Frasier Crane would sneer at, which makes it particularly sad to see Kelsey Grammer reduced to starring in this ABC sitcom as a Dumb Daddy.

Uninspired, obvious and just not that humorous, there’s little reason to make a plan to watch CBS’s latest in a string of disappointing new sitcoms.

Where the travails, conquests and bad behavior in "Entourage" come off as dramatic, clever and imaginative, "Sons of Hollywood" is just like any other celebreality show: More boorish behavior by rich people.

Everything on the show feels outlined, if not scripted.

The show is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor dramatic enough to be an engaging drama.

Viewers who like their comedy broad, loud and silly might take a liking to this "Odd Couple"-like sitcom.

What is it about this television season that made TV executives say, "I think what Americans want to watch in a sitcom is people taunting, disrespecting and insulting one another"?...Insult humor courses through the veins of Fox's Luis, an alleged comedy that provides few laughs.

Rather than three shows, one show would be best: Make The Rock the host, use the settings of "72 Hours" and the casting of Race to the Scene and viewers would be much better off than watching any of these individual new programs.

Maybe in an airy Broadway theater the issues the show attempts to explore would play better, but on TV The Slap suffocates, packed with too many awful characters I don't want to spend another moment watching.

The first hour is a deadly dull slog. Viewers get plopped into the action without much effort to provide context and then there are flashbacks to confuse matters further.

A mere wisp of a show, so lighter than air that it threatens to float away at any moment.

The show has a strong, likable cast--Mr. Chestnut, in particular, seems to be having fun--but when cliches pile up faster than clues, it’s time to change the channel.

Fox's preposterous organized crime/medical show combo platter The Mob Doctor manages to be silly and sappy.

Bag of Bones rarely scares but frequently induces unintentional giggles.

An awful show about awful people.

One of the worst murder-mysteries to come along in a while, ABC’s Secrets & Lies is completely undone by its casting and writing.

The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.

The CW's Beauty is laughably bad in myriad ways. There's no sense of star-crossed lovers, just a plasticized romance between a Cover Girl and a glum, anger-prone male model.

Miscast and only intermittently funny, Jezebel James misfires on all cylinders.

There's a lot that's terrible about Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp.... But this show adds additional layers of hypocrisy and silliness.

Utterly unpleasant and unfunny, Fox's dispiriting Sons of Tucson may be the worst comedy series of a generally winning 2009-10 TV season.

Undateable probably isn’t a show many sitcom fans will want to make a standing date to watch.

Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs.

Seriously lacking in laughs.

"The Game" lacks the relationships that made "Girlfriends" a qualified UPN hit and the comedy to make it much of anything for The CW.

It had a weak pilot to begin with, but the second episode is even more of a tedious bore.

Obvious, dumb and mostly unfunny, One Big Happy is an embarrassment for all involved.

No question, Hindenburg is a disaster--from start to finish.

A watered-down “Person of Interest” crossed with Fox’s failed “APB,” this time-waster stars Jeremy Piven as a Silicon Valley mogul touched by tragedy when his daughter is murdered, leading him to quit his company and create a crowd-sourced, crime-solving app. ... And to think CBS’s Sunday night was once home to a prestige drama like “The Good Wife” and now it’s a parking spot for this disappointment.

Filled with terrible dialogue.

The pilot episode jumps all over the place without establishing characters or their relationships.... [A] failure to connect the dots is a common problem for Hemlock Grove.

An often lighthearted medical show set in a Los Angeles fertility clinic, NBC's "Inconceivable" lacks the grit of "ER," the heart of "Scrubs" and the soapy shenanigans of "Grey's Anatomy," leaving an empty husk of a series.

Problem is, the characters are neither likeable enough to cheer for nor despicable enough to loathe. They're just sort of unformed lumps of gray clay with a few stereotypical streaks of color.

"October Road" is perhaps one of the most clumsily plotted, illogical drama pilots to be produced in years.

[The pilot episode] winds up having a decent if unlikely resolution to its primary mystery. Even if it’s possible to get past the ugliness of the violence against women in the pilot, it’s hard to imagine that a procedural with such a tight focus won’t get old fast.

Dreary and dull. ... Betrayal may depict the most boring, sullen, sad-faced affair in TV history and that in itself is a betrayal of what the show promises.

The biggest problem with "so noTORIous" is that the laughs, when they come, are few and far between.

The landscape is beautiful, the stars are beautiful, but watching Hawaii is like staring at a department store window: Everyone wears cool clothes, the scene is hip and tries to look fun, but there's not much substance to any of it.

Dull and plodding, "Hunters" is no reality TV treasure.

Because the movie tries to cover too much ground, it will be incoherent for those who don't already know the story, and disappointing for those who do. Worse, it is off-key in its presentation of both minor and major passages of his life.

Flash Gordon is a victim of pedestrian scripting. Worse yet, the characters are forced to spout too much exposition that betrays what should be the characters' natural reactions.

Overcooked and preposterous to the point of being laughable.

Watching this one gave me a headache in about 17 minutes. You've been warned.

Crammed with incessant exposition and shoddy special effects akin to those in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” “Inhumans” disappoints from start to finish.

There's exactly one funny moment in the dreadful Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Never thought a TV comedy would leave me wistful for Silverman's NBC bomb "The Single Guy," but "In Case of Emergency" manages to do just that.

How to be a Gentleman is exactly the kind of TV comedy Johnny Drama would be thrilled to star in.

If you are a Timecop, eons can flash past in the blink of an eye. If you're watching Timecop, a mere hour can seem like an eternity. [22 Sept 1997, p.B-8]

Irritating and irredeemable, Danny is a first-class dud. [28 Sept 2001, p.36]

This comedy is just not funny.

I'll give "Unan1mous" this: At least it's more efficient than some reality shows, wasting only a half-hour of a viewer's time. But that's still 30 minutes you don't have to spend wallowing in this muck.

One of the schlockiest, most amateur series to come along in the #PeakTV era, Syfy’s Hunters delivers a mashup of a terrorist-tracking drama and alien invasion story.

The first season of Hilton's 2003 Fox series "The Simple Life" was an amusing sideshow. The World According to Paris is not nearly as entertaining. The bloom is off the Paris Hilton rose. This new show just proves she's a person no one in their right mind would spend time with in real life.

Just as awful as "Locusts" was.

Knight Rider is nothing more than car porn.

It's pretty awful.

The whole lot are a terrible example of, well, humanity, and the only reason to spend time with them is to feel superior, which most viewers probably are.

Never mind the unbelievable premise -- the way the audience is introduced to it is so strained it's painful to watch.

As for My Generation, the less said about it, the better. It's an insufferable show that could well be the season's first cancellation. And it can't come a moment too soon.

The pilot plot... follows a well-worn path of sitcoms traceable back to when cavemen acted them out with large dinosaur bones as props.

There's no need to go any further. Testees makes "Kath & Kim" look smart and savvy, a nearly impossible feat.

Besides being uninspired, "Rules" isn't all that funny.

One of the more awful projects to hit CBS prime time in years.

American television networks have aired many ridiculous reality shows, but The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife is a master class in televised inanity.

At least "'Til Death" has some known stars. The cast of "Happy Hour" will likely remain unknown, starring, as they do, in this dud.

At home, Dr. Ken is just another sitcom-patented dumb daddy, although with an added shading of self-absorption. Mr. Jeong’s performance can best be described as over-the-top back around the other side and over-the-top a second time.

Truly, all the actors on Guys with Kids--even the unknown children used as props--deserve better writing than what they get in this crummy, unimaginative sitcom.

Whatever her faults, Ms. Lohan is not the film's biggest problem. That would be the script, which fails to introduce characters or even explain plot developments.

A&E's The Hasselhoffs is not as morally objectionable as other shows have been (think: "Hot or Not," "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?"), but it is hands down the cheesiest, least realistic celeb-reality show ever. And mostly that's due to star David Hasselhoff's narration, which sounds like someone with no acting training trying to read dialogue.

A crummy comedy.

Go to bed early tonight. Your eyes will thank you for avoiding Lifetime's preposterous "Eyes."

Poorly acted, terribly written and plotted with audacious ridiculousness, "10.5: Apocalypse" is TV junk food that's neither tasty nor filling. It's just junk.

A sadistic series that, underneath its ghastly veneer, is just a dull, unoriginal crime drama.

Executive produced by Ryan Seacrest, this sucking wound of a show introduces three guys and their moms who move into a house filled with women.

Cavemen is itself an embarrassment because it's not funny. At all.

A disapointing and largely laughless comedy set in an upscale New York City hotel.... Do Not Disturb? Try, Do Not Watch.

There's nothing clever or original in American Body Shop, a disappointing waste of time and squandering of Comedy Central's resources.