O’Neill to play Friday in ‘Dragnet’ revival
Ed O'Neill ("Married . . . With Children") has been cast as Joe Friday in Dick Wolf's "Dragnet" revival for ABC.
View ArticleReview: ‘L.A. Dragnet’
Being a cop has seldom looked quite as good as the rechristened "L.A. Dragnet," which has been given a makeover, jettisoning the "just the facts" approach and enlisted a "just the babes" cast plucked...
View ArticleReview: ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’
Ensnares a first-rate cast in a dramatic dragnet for a moral lesson about street-weary policemen.
View ArticleSound man Frank Warner dies
Sound designer and sound effects editor Frank Edward Warner, who won an Oscar for his sound editing work on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," died of natural causes in Sedona, Ariz., on Aug. 31. He...
View ArticleReview: ‘Caught in the Web’
An engrossing, if lengthy social drama in which a woman's minor public misconduct plunges her into a dragnet of cyber witch-hunting that unseats relationships, careers and a business empire, the...
View ArticleTV Review: A (Final?) Salute to ‘Southland’
TNT hasn’t said definitively whether Wednesday’s season finale would officially be the last episode of “Southland,” but all indications and body language — including the fact several of its stars have...
View ArticleMedia Fascination Provides Outlaws a Mass Forum
An unhealthy side effect of covering TV too long is beginning to think like executives and producers. So as reports began dribbling out about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, it was hard...
View ArticleMartin Milner, Star of ‘Adam-12,’‘Route 66,’ Dies at 83
Martin Milner, who starred on TV on “Adam-12” with Kent McCord and, earlier, on “Route 66” with George Maharis, died Sunday night, Diana Downing, a representative for his fan page, confirmed. He was...
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