Jeez, The X Factor did some serious damage.

Tags: alias, american idol, awake, buffy the vampire slayer, drop dead diva, glee, grimm cougar town, the big bang theory, white collar

Coming soon: Prison Break: 71 B.C.?

Tags: 24, Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Damges, Keifer Sutherland, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Locke & Key, Nick Stahl, Prison Break, Rockford Files, Spartacus, Survivor

"It's a trick -- get an Axe!"

Tags: 21 Jump Street, Bruce Campbell, Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Channing Tatum, Dancing With theStars, Desperate Housewives, Elliot Spitzer, Joss whedon, reboot, Todd PAlin

While many shows try to do very special Thanksgiving episodes, most of them degenerate into a muddle of typical family feuding and melodrama. And if we wanted to see disastrous family meals, we would just tune in to Brothers & Sisters on any given week. But every few seasons, at least one great show gives a holiday episode we can be truly thankful for. Here our favorites from the recent and far past:

Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cheers, Dexter, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Saturday Night Live, South Park, thanksgiving, thanksgiving episodes, The West Wing

Werewolves and rednecks and misfits, oh my! Also: space thieves, performance art, Big Bads, Mark Wahlberg and other scary things.

Tags: Barack Obama, Bitches, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chuck, Heroes, Howl, Jaime Pressly, James Franco, Lost, Misfits, Rules of Engagement, Slingers, Stone Cold Steve Austin

We're not sure that the world really needs a spinoff to Criminal Minds, but then again, we didn't think sub-divisions of Law & Order were necessary and SVU and Criminal Intent proved us wrong by being far more enjoyable than their mothership. And while spinoffs may not always grab us right off the bat (like NCIS: Los Angeles), sometimes a new series just needs a little time before it starts improving upon its predecessor. Case in point: The City returned this week with new characters and a compelling new focus that made it far more watchable than the now totally contrived LC-less The Hills. But these aren't the only shows that have been better than their originals. Here's our look back at the best spinoffs from the past two decades:

Tags: 90210, angel, Beavis and Butt-head, buffy the vampire slayer, Cheers, Daria, Deep Space Nine, Doctor who, Frasier, Greys anatomy, Hercules, melrose place, Private Practice, Star Trek, the simpsons, torchwood, tracey ullman, Xena

After countless agonizing months of waiting, the first new episode of Glee since its May premiere is finally close at hand, and since next week's kickoff is likely to take television musical conventions into outer space, it made us nostalgic for some of our favorite past musical moments on other shows. After all, it's not like Glee invented music. The concept of "auditioning for the role of kicker," sure, but music's been around at least since these other shows aired. Here are our all-time favorite people-bustin'-out-singin'-on-TV moments.

Tags: 30 Rock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Eli Stone, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mad Men, Scrubs, Veronica Mars

You know who's free at last? T.R. Knight. For real this time! And that paragon of investigative journalism Perez Hilton is claiming there's going to be a Buffy animated series, which means it must be Thursday.

Tags: Brian Austin Greene, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, David Archuleta, Grey's Anatomy, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Joss Whedon, Lost, Smallville