Dolly Parton is now TV's Christmas queen. Her official crowning comes Wednesday night (Nov. 30) with her second annual TV movie on NBC.

The new Syfy drama series "Incorporated," premiering Wednesday, Nov. 30, is straight out of the "it's only going to get worse" school of futuristic science fiction.

The news networks lived well and prospered off of Trump's wild presidential campaign. Still, their slavish attendance at this command performance "summit" meeting felt uncomfortably like kowtowing.

Imagine a world where all of television is commercial-free. According to one panelist at a session during the January NATPE conference, that reality is already here for an entire generation of younger viewers.

I love television so much that it's inevitable that I would place high standards on it. Although the majority of TV shows do not live up to those standards, the fact that some do makes for a situation in which the majority of TV reviews are going to be negative or, at the very least, somewhere south of positive.

The questions a TV columnist is asked most frequently include: What is your favorite show? Do you like [insert show title]? And sometimes: Who have you met?

What were we thinking?This question occurred to me recently when I came across an old episode of "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" on one of those TV oldies channels.

In 1977, according to the AP style guide I still occasionally refer to, using the acronym "TV" as a noun when writing about television was not advised.

I finally realized recently that he wasn't worth anything, although this 17-inch talking Steve Urkel doll once held at least a smidgen of sentimental value for me.

What will the future of TV be like? You may wonder if commercials are doomed. At the very least, they are under assault in a rapidly changing TV world.