Tom Shales

We expect television programs to be derivative, but Moonlighting doesn't even do its borrowing with finesse.

What a swell place to hang your hat Cheers is.

It becomes more than a good, substantial comedy show; Taxi is also an unusually moving vehicle.

We can only hope that the target teenage audience isn't the collection of sappy sitting ducks that Williamson thinks it is.

Hennessy is a cheering sight merely by virtue of her telegenic beauty, but in short order she's showing us beauty of that proverbial deeper kind.

A softer and sweeter show, and though it may sometimes seem obvious and even corny, it too has an emotional pull that is lacking in much of what might be called video noir.

What a tacky way to begin the show. But things get better as the premiere goes on, and as the series goes on, who knows? They might even get good.

A pointless and preposterous new CBS series about a mysterious village north of Seattle where people wolf down their food and, it appears, are sometimes wolfed down themselves.

Few new shows, at least on CBS, arrive in such polished and sparkling condition. If it gets better, it may turn out to be terrific.

Though fashioned by Richard Levinson and William Link, the "Columbo" team, this agreeably old-fashioned crime show, while happily free of squealy car chases, is unfortunately cuted up mercilessly. Lansbury must have taken night courses in adorability; instead of being saucy and sassy, she's a polyester Pollyanna.