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In Fox’s series “The Following” Kevin Bacon plays a burned-out former F.B.I agent brought out of retirement to hunt followers of a serial killer.

By now Connie Britton must be a little tired of playing variations on the tough, beleaguered wife, as she did for five seasons on “Friday Night Lights” and one on “American Horror Story,” picking up three Emmy nominations along the way. But she’s back at it, this time as a country music queen in ABC’s new drama “Nashville,” and she’s still outstanding: “Nashville” is the best of the fall pilots, if only because of her presence.

The former TV critic for Salon writes in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine that the new series — it isn’t a “remake,” because it’s a “continuation” – is too slick, too insincere, too Hollywood, with its bland young stars who remind her of Abercrombie & Fitch models, or actors in “a swashbuckling high-capitalist adventure directed by Michael Bay,” or the cast of any prime-time soap: “just another gaggle of energetic, beautiful people with international ambitions and very little body hair, bedding and double-crossing one another…”

On the first episode of “Rock Center,” a newsmagazine hosted by Brian Williams, serious issues were mixed with a lighthearted tone.

“The Hour,” a BBC America series starting on Wednesday, is a thriller that blends the Suez crisis in Britain with a more intimate look at sex, ambition and espionage in the workplace, around 1956.

Sci-fi thriller remains silly and frustratingly slow.

The eight-part TLC series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” largely shows the former governor and vice-presidential candidate exploring the outdoors in her home state.

HitFix reviews the Season Four premiere of HBO's Big Love.

Ken Tucker loves the host, but her new late-night show's debut was trying too hard for too few laughs

A group of people who have had their memories erased, led by Eliza Dushku's Echo, can be hired to do just about any task. But there's no emotional connection.

To say there has been anticipatory buzz surrounding Joss Whedon's return to television with Fox’s “Dollhouse” is like saying octo-mom has gotten some media attention. The moment Whedon announced the project, fans of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" began their internal countdown.