Television

Spotted: Blair Waldorf and her entourage lounging on the steps of the Met, snacking on yogurt and plotting Jenny Humphrey’s downfall. Betty Suarez enjoying a block party in her Queens neighborhood. Liz Lemon clutching a bag of Sabor de Soledad and running frantically through Rockefeller Center.

Passover seders are usually a great chance to catch up with your family. As soon as those pesky relatives leave, though, you can catch up with the Walkers. Yes, after a two-month, strike-induced hiatus, we finally have a chance to hang out with the eclectic, eccentric, but mostly lovable clan featured on Brothers & Sisters.

In the beginning, there was the Real World. Then there were Survivor and The Apprentice. Of course, you can’t discount Fear Factor or The Bachelor. And finally... Strictly Come Dancing?

Oprah’s Big Give, promoted as the show that “defies television with the bold idea of people competing to give rather than get,” premieres Sunday on ABC. The show is trying to revolutionize reality TV, especially in the wake of a slew of reality shows that have inundated the air recently due to the recent writers’ strike.

If you think that Sean John, the current name of Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs, does nothing but advertise for his self-produced and inspired show Making the Band 4, think again. Combs also produces and stars in a TV-movie version of A Raisin in the Sun, premiering on ABC tonight.

At some point in the premiere of the new cycle of America’s Next Top Model, it becomes glaringly obvious that the producers have no doubt about the success of their show.

“The sitcom is dead!”

That has been the rallying cry of industry types and the public alike ever since the end of Friends.

In my favorite episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a cornerstone of Cartoon Network’s college kid-oriented Adult Swim program, a preteen rapper named MC Pee Pants turns out to be a giant, diaper-and-shower-cap-wearing spider who wants to use human blood sugar to power a drill that will bore into Hell and release demons who will oversee a global diet pill pyramid scheme.

Welcome to the Captain, the new series debuting tonight on CBS, is a sitcom about the Columbia student’s worst fear: peaking too soon. As a young New Yorker, the bright Josh Flum (Fran Kranz) was destined for success.

Everyone wants to stick it to the man. Everyone wants the chance to one-up the government and get away with it. The new NBC series Life capitalizes on just that feeling.