While I struggle to come to grips with the fact that there’ll be no more “Mad Men” until next summer, TV goes on. This week offers a particularly oddball assortment of new shows, from a sweeps-month “CSI” stunt to a couple of…

Fishburne (right, with George Eads): bad dresser?

Laurence Fishburne will get “a little bit of a wardrobe makeover” for his second season on “CSI,” CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler said Monday. He’ll also get some tweaks to his role, including “a…

Thursday night means tough choices. What to watch, what to record and watch later, what to skip altogether?

I started with “Survivor,” although I’m not sure why I’m watching this season, because it bores me silly. Then “CSI” — really funny…

Grissom checks the ratings.

Here, courtesy of ABC, is the full list of TV ratings for the season to date, Sept. 22 through Oct. 26. This list should make CBS (with six shows in the Top 10, including three editions of…

CBS made it official today that Laurence Fishburne will join “CSI” in the new season’s ninth episode. He will replace, more or less, William Petersen, who is moving on to explore other opportunities for personal reasons — all that stuff they…

Friday, July 18

Weather: Gray and overcast. Temperature in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton: absolutely freezing. Unless somebody can get the AC dialed back, I am hiking to Macy’s over lunch to buy a parka.

Network du jour: CBS, the only network…