Critic's corner

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2008 | by Robert Bianco

*There are a few performers worth following on this latest go-round of Dancing With the Stars (ABC, tonight, 8 ET/PT), so perhaps it's time to try an experiment. Bypass the rehearsals and testimonials and leave the judges on "mute," and see if that doesn't remove 90% of what is most unbearably fatuous about the show. (The contestants, 6D)

*Let's hope you didn't grow too attached to a marginally stable Elizabeth Canterbury. Her life really starts to unravel in this week's Canterbury's Law (Fox, 8 ET/PT), as a case provokes an admission about her son's abduction. Julianna Margulies is terrific as Elizabeth, but they've laden her character with too much baggage.

*Speaking of busy characters, last week we found out that the four-centuries-old cop on New Amsterdam...