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David Byrne had just flooded his hotel bathroom and needed some help. It was late 1980, and the idiosyncratic guitarist and front man of the rock band Talking Heads was staying at San Francisco's Miyako Hotel while his band toured in support of their new album, "Remain in Light."

Ken Burns' six-part series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," will make you want to swoop like an egret in the Everglades, romp like a young gray wolf over lichen-covered rocks in Yellowstone.

This gorgeous 12-hour series -- a project that took six years to film -- will air on PBS at 8 p.m. EDT on six consecutive nights beginning Sunday.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns turns his documentarian eye to the national park system in the 12-hour story "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," debuting 8 p.m. EDT Sunday on PBS.

PASADENA, Calif. - Filmmaker Ken Burns should be the best ambassador for his new film, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." But Shelton Johnson, one of Burns' interview subjects, may have him beat.

You can rip the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a lot of things: thin archives, a staid treatment of a wild art form, the fact that it's in Cleveland. But you can't trash the foundation's taste in popular music: Peruse its honor roll, and while you might find a few omissions, you won't find any folks who don't belong.

Early next year, however, that might change.

Fox premieres the new comedy "Brothers" on Friday with two back-to-back episodes, which does the show no favors. The first episode (8 p.m. EDT) is not great but there are a couple of funny moments and it's fun to see CCH Pounder, so tough on "The Shield," back in a comedic role.

Learning to read should be fun. All too often, however, the books available for beginning readers are simple-minded and boring.

In the first season of "Dexter" (9 p.m. EDT Sunday, Showtime), it made sense to put the smiling serial killer who dispatches other murderers in jeopardy. The tension of "Will Dexter Get Caught?" created a rich atmosphere that helped make Dexter sympathetic despite his status as TV's blood-spattered anti-hero.

Long gestating as a spinoff of "Family Guy," Fox's "The Cleveland Show" arrives Sunday (8:30 p.m. EDT) and proves to be just as rude-crude as its progenitor. But there is a key difference: "The Cleveland Show" has more warmth that flows from its gentle title character, Cleveland Brown (voice of Mike Henry, also the show's co-creator).

Rabbi David Kahn was a well-respected spiritual and community leader when he died. That's when his wife, three children and synagogue found out he wasn't a rabbi. And he wasn't Jewish. Heck, he wasn't even David Kahn.

He was a con man named Donnie Dobbs, a cheap grifter who fell in love with a Jewish girl and transformed into the good man she thought he was.