A look at the new spiritual TV shows of the fall/winter season--including "Eastwick," "The Vampire Diaries," "FlashForward," "Human Target," and more. Plus the returning favorites "Lost," "Heroes," "Medium," and more.

I was trolling around People.com yesterday looking for the poll asking readers to weigh in on what “J” name Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” should bestow on their recently announced nineteenth addition, when I noticed a most ironic bit of contextual advertising. Using metadata and/or content to target the…

It’s not news that Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. He’s admitted as much on his Comedy Channel show, “The Colbert Report.” (Besides, even with the best hairstylists in television at your disposal, you can’t fake that precisely parted, altar-boy-grown-up hair-do.) But in an interview in the current Rolling Stone, Colbert gives us a rare glimpse…

I learned something new today. Apparently, at least in Dubai, Ramadan is a time for more than daily prayer and fasting, it’s a holy time for television, too: “it is also the Middle Eastern equivalent of sweeps month,” according to Brian Stelter’s New York Times article, “Dubai Superheroes: Little Old Grannies Who Wear Veils,” which…

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