Director Spike Lee reportedly plans to return to town to develop a television series set in post-Katrina New Orleans. I have a suggested pilot for him: an updated version of the 1960s hit, Gilligan's ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a show that became such a big pop cultural hit, "Gilligan's Island" had a somewhat fraught history. For one thing, the pilot episode ...

Throughout its history, there has been a push-and-pull between the critical consensus on "Gilligan's Island" and its overwhelming popularity among audiences. Few step forward to defend the show's ...

It helped that "Gilligan's Island" featured a theme song that surely remains one of the most strikingly efficient in TV history, with Schwartz and George Wyle's "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle" ...

In the mid-1960s, television viewers looking for intellectual, dramatic fare knew they wouldn't find it on Gilligan's Island, and that suited creator Sherwood Schwartz just fine. He didn't intend for ...

My wife has given up on getting me to take her on a cruise. I offer the usual excuses about work duties, shark sightings and an aversion to sea shanties. And let's not forget those things called ...