An unlikely movie star in the 1990s, she has weathered ups and downs to find herself, at 55, as busy as ever. Next is a role in “Emily in Paris.”

Our critics picked their favorite moments, not necessarily from their favorite shows of the year — a certain “South Park” episode, for example.

Jimmy Kimmel called the president’s last-minute speech “a surprise prime-time episode of ‘The Worst Wing’ tonight on every channel.”

He was best known for playing the title character in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.Gil Gerard in the mid-1980s in Los Angeles.

Just ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet talked about the challenge of finding fun in a nuclear apocalypse.“To me, the thing that makes the Fallout games unique is the tone,” Geneva Robertson-Dworet said, noting their balance of “moral dilemmas” and the “sense of wit and irony.”