There is considerable love lost in Charleston for the composer and impresario Gian Carlo Menotti.

A message from Spoleto: Uninitiated older listeners have at least as much to gain from a familiarity with classical music as the coveted younger ones do.

The composer Gian Carlo Menotti and his legacy hold sway over the festival in Charleston.

Questions for Audra McDonald.

A look at some real TV people who can sell soap.

It’s time to remake “Nashville” as fluff.

This year at the upfronts has been a reverse arms race.

Amy Sherman-Palladino, who made the late “Gilmore Girls” for the late WB, now springs “The Return of Jezebel James” on us.

“Back2You,” the new show with Kelsey Grammer, looks, for the life of me, to be good.

Christiane Amanpour, left, in the finale of “Gilmore Girls,” with Lauren Graham, center, and Alexis Bledel. (Bruce Birmelin/The CW)
We’re now talking about the “Gilmore Girls” finale. Ms. Ostroff mentions “Lauren and Alexis,” and how great they are, and I always feel like whatever you think of the war — the direction of the show and [...]

Press conference. “Nerds are really in right now,” Dawn Ostroff is saying, by way of explaining why “Big Bang Theory” on CBS, which is about two geeks and a girl, won’t “dilute the power” of Ashton Kutcher’s reality show, “Beauty and the Geek,” on the CW.
Love at first … episode 308. (Michael Desmond/The CW)
When the [...]

Mr. Kalyan, show-stealer. (Trae Patton/The CW)
“Aliens in America” looked lousy until Adhir Kalyan appeared, and stole a scene — and seemingly the whole pilot (remember, we only see a clip here). As a Pakistani exchange student, he brooks the responses of random American kids to his ethnicity and religion when a wonderfully unctuous middle-school teacher [...]

I’m excited about “Life Is Wild,” because I loved “The Wilderness Family” and the grim “Mosquito Coast,” and I basically just love freaky dads who take their families off the grid.
Not sure the CW is really up to South Africa, though; the townships, in the preview, get less air time than the big game. How [...]

Ms. Ostroff (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
Dawn Ostroff, who’s running a brisk show, gets into digital. It’s all O.K.: content wraps, avatars, shows to which viewers contribute video. (”Content wraps”? Whatever.)
The major, major, insurmountable problem is this: the CW execs start in their own heads when they’re deciding what to dump into all these little digital cupcake tins. [...]

The “O.C.” of N.Y.C., “Gossip Girl,” is on the big screen. The kids are rich and mean, and they party and steal each other’s boyfriends.
Sounds cool, but can teen life seem sexy without beaches and bodies of water? There’s a lot of dopey “Apprentice”-style tall building porn here. It doesn’t bring to mind adolescent desire, [...]