Everybody loves a cozy mystery. There's nothing quite like curling up with a warm blanket and a mystery show that wraps things up each episode, following a quirky mystery-solver of one kind or another ...

There's a lot to love about the classic detective series "Columbo," and over the years, people have tried to figure out exactly what has made it so darn watchable. Seriously, it's incredibly easy to ...

From the moment he shuffled onto television screens in a rumpled raincoat, cigar dangling from his fingers, Columbo—in the form of actor Peter Falk—announced that he was going to play by different ...

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, ...

This month, Peacock is running the second season of Poker Face, a mystery show that owes a lot to Columbo, the hit series that ran from 1971 to 1978. Columbo has had a big resurgence of popularity in ...

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 ...

Columbo Season 1 is an American crime drama series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. The opening chapter of the show puts Lieutenant Columbo, a cunning and unorthodox detective, in the ...

Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.

My favourite TV detective has always been Columbo (played by Peter Falk) and it was 50 years ago today that the very first episode aired in the U.S. This column is called 'In Excess' and I have ...

Certain directors deliver stylistic flourishes that instantly separate their efforts from other TV shows airing alongside their episodes. In Peter Falk's time on "Columbo," he crossed paths with some ...