Don’t cry for broadcast television. The business may be rough these days, but the executives often fritter away their most promising programs. NBC’s bewildering treatment of Lateline, a clever spoof ...

Lateline returns to NBC tonight with a shot at a unique distinction. It could be the year’s best midseason replacement show for two years running — a first. As distinctions go, this one is dubious.

And now, a significant farewell. Yes, time is up for Lateline after almost three decades on air. It's been home to some of the ABC's hottest talent, most notably, Kerry O'Brien: KERRY O'BRIEN: Welcome ...

If there is anything wackier, more bizarre and more grossly over-the-top than “Lateline,” comedian/auteur Al Franken’s satirical sitcom take on Washington and its worthies, it would have to be ...

There are only a few time periods in which a smartly written show like Lateline could make it. Fortunately, NBC has one of them, right behind Frasier, and this is where the new sitcom about a ...

I really, really, really want to like “Lateline,” but it won’t let me. This comic parody of a late-night news program (loosely patterned after ABC’s “Nightline”) premiered on NBC last spring, the ...

AL FRANKEN is adamant: “Lateline,” his new NBC comedy about a Washington, D. C.-based late-night news show, can play outside the Beltway. “We do reward people for knowing things, but we don’t punish ...