Ally McBeal redefined a lot of things (besides fashion, as short skirts were described as being “Ally McBeal short”). It fit neither the mold of the hour-long drama nor of the half-hour sitcom, thus paving the way for shows like Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty.

The storylines and surgeries only continue to get stranger as the characters have all but been exhausted. But despite the show’s multitude of flaws, it has just enough left in its tank to limp to its finish line.

“What’s Christmas without angels?” grinned Ms. Downey when I asked about the newly collections. The season when we celebrate the meeting of humanity and divinity is perfect timing for this reminder of God’s love appearing in our individual journeys.

Sometimes, during the toughest moments of our lives, we feel like we are alone. But are we entertaining angels unaware? Be inspired with new collections of one of television’s landmark shows, Touched By An Angel.

The villains remain the same, but now the X-Men find themselves battling across the globe AND through time itself. (I’m a little fuzzy on how Professoer X got into the future, but it is via a coma. Is that a spoiler?!?!?)

Courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, you can be one of three lucky Hollywood Jesus readers to win a pair of Inspiration Collection DVDs of the wildly popular television series Touched by an Angel. Click through for details on how to enter…

Trial and Retribution seeks justice, in the face of terrible crimes and the reality that our job doesn’t stop influencing us even when we clock out. Dealing with who we are in our entirety allows us to be true to ourselves—even when it doesn’t look pretty.

Zorro left his mark on TV history just as much as he did on his enemies, and now you can own this wonderful collection of his first full-season of fun and adventure. It’s just as good as you remember it, and maybe more so.

Full of Glee? It’s hard to have missed NBC’s ads for the school club show about singers, but if you have, their first volume of covers is worth a shot.

In many ways, the television series was better than the last movie in the series, with an unusual blend of spirituality and science fiction and a story line that had one coming back for more, from week to week. Too bad that many missed out on this wonderful television experience.

Courtesy of Disney Home Entertainment, you can be one of three lucky Hollywood Jesus readers to win a copy of the DVD release of Mickey’s Magical Christmas, a feature-length film due out on November 3. Click through for details on how to enter…

Courtesy of Mpower Pictures, you can be one of three lucky Hollywood Jesus readers to win a copy of the Mia Farrow-narrated PBS documentary As We Forgive, out this month on DVD. Click through for details on how to enter…

Murphy is a broken, conflicted man, but thankfully, he uses his own hurt, and his significant skills, to bring the bad guys down one at a time. But his own personal issues aren’t going away anytime soon…

Sunday’s episode of Masterpiece Mystery on PBS included references to the Inklings, the Oxford writers group that included JRR Tolkien and C S Lewis. Click through for a link to the online video available for a limited time.

I thought Life on Mars was great. That is, I thought the ABC version was good, until I saw the first half of the BBC one. But seriously, this could be enjoyable, too. Just turn it off before the last five minutes play.

Strange happenings and brutal murders abound in the quiet Midsomer County, making for exciting drama even in the midst of the quiet country. The real world would be better off with a few more detectives like Barnaby.

Courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment, you can be the one lucky Hollywood Jesus reader to win a copy of the complete 5th season of the TV comedy classic Mary Tyler Moore Show, due out on DVD on October 6. Click through for details…

Alvin and the Chipmunks get done up right as they celebrate fifty years in the making. They entertained my six-year-old mind twenty-five years ago, but it’s hard to know if they will appeal to people who grew up with Star Wars.

The cases comment on the characters, and the characters often comment on the show (like when the chief says, “We’ve been resting on our laurels. … It stops, and it stops now”, an acknowledgment that the show rights itself).

Less ridiculous and more natural feeling storylines, less celebrity cameos, and a less one-note quality to many of the characters makes Ugly Betty fantastically lovable. Living in “BettySuarezland” isn’t such a bad place to be.