The Serial Killed the Latest TV Stars
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 18--Soon, as in next season, it will be OK to miss your new favorite show for a week or two.   Critics watch a lot of television. Not a complaint, just a fact.
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By Lynn Elber  The show was smart and intriguingly spiked with supernatural and sci-fi twists. It featured hot new stars who graced glossy magazine covers  --  until the ratings tumbled.
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Mexicoâs country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate â 13 in the past year and a half.
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First video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder's days could be numbered too, after Britain's biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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The slayings were shocking enough by themselves: In February, an out-of-work mechanic allegedly abducted, raped and killed an 11-year-old girl. In August, six people were bludgeoned to death in what was believed to be a dispute over a video game. The news that followed arrests in both cases was even more alarming: The accused murderers had recently violated probation and probably shouldn't have been on the street.
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By Danny Hooley, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Network television has tried just about everything under the sun to hang on to the mass audience it enjoyed in the pre-cable glory days. Franchising its hits to death. An overdose of reality shows. Voodoo.
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An episode of Eastenders has caused controversy after it showed a teenager being stabbed.  Do you think it should have been aired?
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Actress Ruth Warrick, best known for her role on the daytime soap All My Children, dies in New York.
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The pains and perils of romance with TV characters.
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It took an off-the-cuff reference to a serial murderer/cannibal to punctuate the Robby Gordon storyline. Gordon has been vilified by his peers and put on probation
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Emmy night tasted bitter and sweet for stars of shows that either ended or were canceled last season.
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The real-life of a murdered aspiring actress has fascinated the public for decades. Sadly, the new movie version is not nearly as compelling
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Arts & entertainment: Andrew Rawnsley argues that the self-pitying Alastair Campbell has unwittingly cast the New Labour years as an endless soap opera.
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Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.
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The flood of serialized dramas hitting television has created a quandary for viewers when shows fail in the ratings and are canceled, leaving key plot points eternally unresolved.
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After proving a longtime ratings machine for BBC television since its launch in 1985, the flagship soap opera &quot;EastEnders&quot; has in recent months faced almost as many troubles as the drama's famously luckless characters.
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They were orphans. Some of them killed. Now the entertainment industry is all over them