Turner Entertainment is offering a new system intended to pair commercials with relevant moments in the shows they interrupt.

Fox will introduce a science-fiction-oriented drama from J. J. Abrams of “Lost” and a comedy about life at a luxury hotel starring Jerry O’Connell.

Ms. McKinsey, a well-known soap opera actress of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, played memorably strong women on “Another World” and “Guiding Light.”

There is much to make the jaw drop in “Inside a Cult.” But by its end you may feel that the most stunning thing is that this film exists at all.

“The Adirondacks,” a two-hour special on most PBS stations on Wednesday night, offers a little history, a little culture and a whole lot of gorgeous, gauzy travelogue.

Some prominent former advisers to Al Gore say that a coming HBO film dramatizing the ballot battle after the 2000 election unfairly blames them for the Democrats’ failure to secure the White House.

CBS will try to expand its growing success with comedy in the new lineup of programs that it will introduce on Wednesday to advertisers in New York.

Having lost four months of its development season to the writers’ strike, the network will, at least initially, rely heavily on fan favorites.

Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, acknowledged that the changing late-night landscape at the network would probably mean that Jay Leno would leave it.

The missing six million viewers who were watching prime television last May and have disappeared this year are still watching, but on their own terms.

The bête noire of Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses do not always know what to make of it.

The writers’ strike this TV season was only the catalyst of the change to upfront week, when networks offer springtime previews of prime-time programs for the coming fall.

Presidential candidates long ago learned the power of pop culture, but this year they seem to be leaning particularly hard on it.

The 2009 version of “The Electric Company” is a weekly, more danceable version of its former daily self.

Jimmy Fallon, the former cast member of “Saturday Night Live,” is to be named the host of NBC’s “Late Night” talk show.

A son of the suburbs, inspired by his parents’ adventures, takes TV back to the ’70s with “Swingtown.”

For the third consecutive week the Thursday night lineup on CBS had more viewers at every time slot than any of its network competitors.

Alexander Payne, the director and Oscar-winning co-writer of “Sideways,” will direct and serve as an executive producer of “Hung,” a new dark comedy series on HBO.

Only after “Battle of Kruger” — an eight-minute African safari video — became one of the most popular videos in YouTube’s history did the television buyers come calling.

Based on the true story of Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl in Indianapolis in 1965 who found herself subjected to horrific cruelties, “An American Crime” almost begs us to look anywhere else.