Ellen Gray

Daily News TV critic Ellen Gray has been paid to watch television since 1994. And yes, it's very nice work if you can get it.

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Latest post: 'House' takes fans for a ride one last time - 05/22/2012

'Breaking Bad' to return for its final season
Networks announce fall schedules — defensively
'Celebrity Apprentice' declares a winner
'House' takes fans for a ride one last time

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'House' takes fans for a ride one last time

‘2 Broke Girls’ trumps ‘Two and a Half Men’ - 05/16/2012: Ellen Gray

And when it was done calculating, it decided to move “2 Broke Girls,” the season’s No. 1 new show among the 18- to 49-year-olds advertisers target, into the 9 p.m. slot long held by the network’s longest-running sitcom, “Two and a Half Men.”
Nashville lights for Connie Britton this fall - 05/15/2012: Ellen Gray

ABC’s going a little bit country this fall.
Fox gets better with Kevin Bacon - 05/14/2012: Ellen Gray

Ellen Gray: The Philly-raised Kevin Bacon, who’s famously worked with at least half the actors in Hollywood, will be tracking a vast network of serial killers in “The Following,” a new drama that Fox’s entertainment chief calls “our next ‘24.’ ”
Heavy matters in new HBO documentary ‘The Weight of the Nation’ - 05/13/2012: Ellen Gray

THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION. 8 and 9:10 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, HBO.
NBC announces fall line-up - 05/13/2012: Ellen Gray

SO MAYBE NEXT season won’t be the last for NBC’s “30 Rock,” after all? Following days of online reports that the network had given the sitcom created by and starring Upper Darby’s Tina Fey 13 episodes to wrap things up, NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said Sunday that “we haven’t definitively said that” to the people at “30 Rock” or to those at “The Office” or “Community,” both of which will also return.
No longer ‘Desperate,’ ‘Housewives’ fades away - 05/10/2012: Ellen Gray

Ellen Gray: However briefly, there was a time when people talked about what happened onscreen, not just behind the scenes, on the primetime soap about the secrets of suburbia.
The cool boy on ‘New Girl’ - 05/07/2012: Ellen Gray

Ellen Gray: If you watched the first episode of Fox’s “New Girl” last fall and thought, as I did, that Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) might have a future as more than roommates, you saw more than Johnson.
Holmes is where the brain is - 05/03/2012: Ellen Gray

Ellen Gray: He’s traded in his Blackberry for an Apple product, but his smartphone’s still smarter than yours. He is Sherlock Holmes and as “Sherlock” returns to PBS’ “Masterpiece Mystery!” on Sunday,
TV people to follow on Twitter - 05/01/2012: Ellen Gray

EVERYONE brings something different to Twitter, and TV writers are no exception. Here are 10 I follow, and why you might want to:
A TV watcher's guide to Twitter - 05/01/2012: Ellen Gray

Ellen Gray: Some of the world’s better-paid writers are giving some of their material away, one tweet at a time.