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Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt in Season 2 of "Interview with the Vampire." (Larry Horricks/AMC)

Best TV of 2024: A modestly better lineup than usual, but why didn’t it feel that way?

December 25, 2024 at 11:55 a.m.

Looking back, 2024 offered some fun shows, but too often, the good stuff was drowned out by endlessly rebooted IP.

Actors Jeremy Brett (L) and David Burke as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," circa 1984. (TV Times via Getty Images)

Column: 40 years after it premiered, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ remains one of the best Doyle adaptations

December 5, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

The beloved British TV series adapted Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories with fidelity to their Victorian setting.

Michael McDonald in a 1982 “Soul Train” appearance. (Soul Train/Getty/Courtesy HBO)

‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’ review: More than an ironic musical pleasure

December 5, 2024 at 12:25 p.m.

The HBO doc “Yacht Rock” examines the genre of soft rock that topped the charts between 1976 and 1984.

Michael Fassbender stars as a CIA operative under pressure in "The Agency." (Luke Varley/Paramount+)

‘The Agency’: Spy vs. spy with Michael Fassbender at the center

November 28, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

The espionage thriller “The Agency” on Paramount+ is gorgeously shot meditation on the toll of obscuring your identity for the CIA.

Tamara Lawrance stars as the title character in "Get Millie Black," about a police detective in Jamaica working a missing person's case while juggling old trauma in her personal life. (HBO)

‘Get Millie Black’ review: In Jamaica, a police detective is haunted by threats old and new

November 27, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

Millie Black is a cop in Jamaica whose missing person case proves to be far more complicated and dangerous than anyone anticipates.

From left: Lilah Richcreek Estrada, Kerry O'Malley and Ted Danson in "A Man on the Inside." (Netflix)

‘A Man on the Inside’ review: A retiree becomes a retirement home spy

November 21, 2024 at 10:52 a.m.

Ted Danson plays a widower who is lonely and adrift who starts working for a private eye undercover at a retirement community in this Netflix comedy from Mike Schur.

From left: Jimmy O. Yang and Ronny Chieng in "Interior Chinatown." (Mike Taing/Hulu)

‘Interior Chinatown’ review: Trapped in a police procedural, a background character breaks out

November 20, 2024 at 6:05 a.m.

Charles Yu's adapts his surreal-comedic novel for Hulu, about a guy working his uncle's Chinatown restaurant who is actually a TV character trapped in the background of a police procedural.

Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross in "Cross." (Amazon)

‘Cross’ review: Forget coolly methodical, this version of Alex Cross is more intense

November 20, 2024 at 9:22 a.m.

The Amazon series adapts James Patterson's Alex Cross novels, about a detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. Unlike previous screen incarnations, here he's a macho action man with a hero...

Lena Dunham, right, is attached to write a movie about convicted FTX cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, left. (John Minchillo/AP and OK McCausland/The New York Times)

Column: Hollywood loves a scammer. But is there an appetite for a movie about a convicted cryptocurrency fraudster?

November 13, 2024 at 9:13 a.m.

Lena Dunham is set to adapt Michael Lewis's book "Going Infinite" about Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud. Yet another scammer story.

From left: Josh Lawson and David Alan Grier in "St. Denis Medical." (Ron Batzdorff/NBC)

‘St. Denis Medical’ review: New NBC sitcom is ‘The Office,’ but in a hospital

November 12, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

"St. Denis Medical" follows the overworked, sometimes incompetent staff of a small regional hospital in Oregon. It might take some time for the sitcom mockumentary to find its own voice...

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