If you’re going to copy, at least copy something good, as “Oliver Beene” does in borrowing heavily from Fox’s creative “Malcolm in the Middle” and ABC’s late, great “The Wonder Years.” The problem is ...

At the intersection of "Wonder Years" and "Malcolm in the Middle, "Oliver Beene" stands and waits, wondering which direction to take as its first three episodes display professionalism but no edge. It ...

Fox’s retro laffer “Oliver Beene” is off to a very strong start, retaining all of its young-adult lead-in from “The Simpsons” and dominating its timeslot, according to preliminary nationals from ...

Deep into a midseason that's shuffled scripted shows to the back burner, the family sitcom's prevalence is easily forgotten. They're all over the schedule, though it's easy not to notice. All run on ...

A critic has to be rooting for Fox to come up with a new hit comedy or drama series. If not, we're going to be subjected to more inane reality shows like Fox's "Married by America." I realized this ...

Grant Rosenmeyer, who played one of Ben Stiller's sons in the 2001 film "The Royal Tenenbaums," is now starring in his own TV series. Rosenmeyer plays the title character in the new Fox comedy "Oliver ...

The late actor Carroll O’Connor spent 30 years denying that Archie Bunker’s reactionary politics on All in the Family were his own. O’Connor, who like Archie came from Queens, N.Y., once said that his ...