Ratings: Fox's 'Backstrom' Off to Decent Start Thursday

When Backstrom premieres on Jan. 22, it will have been nearly two years since most people involved in the Fox drama boarded the project. First a pilot for CBS to air during the 2013-14 season, it never got enough traction at 

Paging Dr. House . Backstrom (Thursday, 9 ET/PT, * * out of four) is not the first — and won't be the last — TV series to embrace the template that gave Fox a breakthrough hit in House: The arrogant, irascible, self-and-other-loathing, personally

“He is a total dick,” Rainn Wilson said of his lead character in Fox's new series Backstrom, in response to some TV critics' apparent beliefs that there was nothing wrong with irascible Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom that couldn't be 

Rainn Wilson has a new job as the lead in the new Fox drama "Backstrom." The 13-episode drama is based on the Swedish book series by criminologist/novelist Leif G.W. Persson. The hourlong crime drama centers on an 

When Backstrom premieres on Jan. 22, it will have been nearly two years since most people involved in the Fox drama boarded the project. First a pilot for CBS to air during the 2013-14 season, it never got enough traction at