Some characters are loved, others are hated. Villainous bosses, exes and rivals make the cinematic world go round, providing beloved main characters with challenges they must face before riding off ...

With his rumpled trench coat and half-chewed cigars, not to mention his constantly breaking, decrepit car, Detective Columbo certainly looks like an underdog. But after just a few episodes it becomes ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Former Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton tweeted recently about watching episode after episode of the classic detective series from the 1970s, Columbo. She pointed out, as many a fan of the ...

It was almost a year ago that the internet got into a bit of an argument: Who should star in a theoretical reboot of Peter Falk’s detective classic Columbo? Is it Mark Ruffalo, who has a kind of ...

A collage featuring Charlie Cale as Peter Falk in Columbo, James Garner as Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files, Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum for Magnum P.I. and Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale in Poker ...

From anthology to stage-play, movie to pilot, Columbo took the long road to becoming an icon. “We’re showing this installment of the ‘Chevy Mystery Show,’ not for what it is, but (as) … the ...

"Murder by the Book" launched a series that made the rumpled detective Columbo into a cultural icon. It also provided career foundations for Steven Bochco and Steven Spielberg, a pair of youngsters ...

There’s something I’ve never loved about the way shows like Columbo, Elsbeth, and Poker Face are structured. We know who did it before the detective even walks into the room. The body’s still warm, ...

The "women in refrigerators" trope as coined by Gail Simone, with "fridging" now a ubiquitous term, sees the partner or loved one of a protagonist murdered or maimed, often in a cruel and unusual ...