The game itself gets bogged down with a succession of gratingly easy questions that turn Round 1 into a rather boring marathon.

Method to the Madness is adroitly packaged and probably not all that less less flattering than a PBS American Masters portrait might have been.

It's a genuinely chilling four-hour adaptation of the tireless horror-meister's 1998 bestseller.

The bedeviled moms can be bawdy fun on occasion in this broad Fox sitcom. But their unctuous, obnoxious 14-year-olds basically ruin every scene they're in.

Its hip replacement is a cast that's been around the block and knows how to act accordingly.

Vietnam In HD is vivid and compelling without being intrinsically political.

Hell on Wheels is a big and ambitious stab at the genre, with a lot going on and much to recommend.

Maybe the content also will rise to the level of the art deco-ish visuals. But the opening episode has an overall creepy feel to it, paced of course by a seven-year-old's carnal longings for his gruff sexagenerian principal.

Grimm is buoyed by some decent special effects and snarky wolfman Monroe, who will be a series regular. But it's not nearly as imaginative, involving or picturesque as ABC's fairy tale offering, Once Upon A Time.

Fans of the fantastical can do far worse than Once Upon A Time, which manages to both stir the pulse and please the senses with its beautifully imagined medieval times.

Grammer's performance is thoroughly engaging and convincing. And the events swirling around him never fail to snap, crackle and pop.

The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.

Sing Your Song ends up being more than a little too self-indulgent and one-noted. Abundant archival footage is in part a saving grace, though.

Season 2 so far is still a watchable feast of decayed human flesh and frayed nerve endings.

Allen's mere presence may keep it in business for a while. But it already seems as though it belongs on TV Land, where Home Improvement repeats already reside.

It's HBO's most mature half-hour series ever, rising above the material worlds of Sex and the City and Entourage to offer a road worth taking in pursuit of a "higher self."

Living in the Material World falls short of Scorsese's terrific two-part PBS film, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.

It's a lot to process, and at times too much to take. Still, Horror Story often is a wonder.

In the end, it may be the most fun you'll ever have with a Ken Burns film.

Dexter likewise remains in solid shape, with new characters generating some additional heat while its namesake keeps plying his trade.

It's compelling, enthralling and steeped in current realities.

This is a comedy with a solid core group of characters and a chance to go the distance.

For now, Levy is an OK mix of insolence and vulnerability, Hines is her usual hoot and Sisto shows signs of being nimble on his feet in an arena where he's still learning the ropes.

It goes down pretty easy if you'd like to set down for a spell with a disarmingly pleasant little down-home melodrama.

Terra Nova certainly doesn't lack ambition and scope, which is a plus. But its first two hours fall short in the storytelling department.

Beyond selling the glamour of it all, Pan Am may be very hard-pressed to come up with weekly storylines that impel viewers to climb aboard.

A Gifted Man won't kill any brain cells if you want to give it a try. But it's not all there yet with an unwieldy mix that also includes two life-threatening cases, a few scenes with Michael's frazzled sister, Christina (Julie Benz) and her problematic teen son and an attempted exorcism of sorts by a mystic named Anton (Pablo Schreiber).

It leads off the network's Thursday prime-time schedule, with the action originating in Miami and the scripts apparently bought from Godawful, Inc.