Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s American Idol without the singing, Wipeout without the gleefully mean-spirited narration. This is American Ninja Warrior, the latest entertainment import from Japan—and it might be one of the cleaner shows on television.

Guardian angel Amy flaps into Allison’s life uninvited and unwanted. Sort of like this CBS TV show.

After taking the video game world by crowd, Rabbids have invaded Nickelodeon. Do they have a nefarious endgame in mind? Or do they just want to holler “Bwah!”?

It’s good to be a Jonas Brother. Not only do you have fame, fortune and a fabulous face, but now you have your own sitcom—on Disney Channel!

Long-time and memorable television personalities gather on TV Land for a crass show best quickly forgotten.

When it comes to family viewing, Trial & Error feels like one long trial and a whole lot of error.

UPDATED REVIEW: The Foster family is a throwback to shows from the 1950s and ’60s, where families were largely aspirational. This, its makers suggest, is how a healthy family looks—sort of like The Waltons with a rainbow-friendly vibe instead of black-and-white traditionalism.

MTV knows a thing or two about transmogrifications. Handy information, that, when nurturing a coming-of-age show about a werewolf.

Think being leader of the free world would be tough? Try being a father to a cadre of free-spirited kids. Or maybe a midseason replacement sitcom on NBC.

Big Little Lies offers some little lessons along with some big problems.

This Canadian show’s gray-obsessed content just keeps getting darker.

Will the Alphas fight each other … or us regular humans? Or maybe they’ll just change their name to X-Men and call it a day.

Grimm is yanking fables out of their magical garden by the roots and slapping them down in the middle of a cookie-cutter cop procedural.

Vince Faraday is no superhero. He’s just a guy with a cape, trying to catch bad guys, rescue his reputation and get back to his wife and son. Oh, and maybe help his new pals rob a couple of banks along the way.

It’ll be a brave new world around here in the year 2046. Should we be fighting for it or against it?