Watch them or avoid them? For better or worse, here are seven shows that should be on your TV radar in the next seven days (March 30-April 5). Also be aware that NBC has dropped “The Chopping Block” (7 p.m.…

Rose Byrne as Ellen.

Lots of things about “Damages” annoy me. I think Glenn Close overacts as if she were in a huge theater playing to the back balcony. I find the changing time frames (I know, they’re intended to increase the…

Glenn Close in

FX has finally answered the popular question, “When will ‘Damages’ be back?” The second-season premiere is set for Jan. 7, the network said Wednesday. Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and Zeljko Ivanek all return, along with Ted Danson…

New to the second season of FX’s “Damages” (now in production for January) is Timothy Olyphant, who starred as marshal Seth Bullock in HBO’s “Deadwood” and is almost unrecognizable here in short hair and modern clothes. (He’s pictured here with…