LOS ANGELES -- On Sept. 10, 2011 -- one day before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- Showtime will premiere "The Love We Make", an Albert Maysles documentary about Paul McCartney's organization and presentation of a post-9/11 show-of-support-for-New-York concert 10 years ago...

2011

Aug

PRESS TOUR: LATEST NEWS INVOLVES LADY GAGA AND A '24' MOVIE - BUT NOT TOGETHER By David Bianculli

LOS ANGELES -- There's a burst of interesting news coming out of the Television Critics Press tour all of a sudden, along with some equally intriguing lighter moments. News today; features tomorrow. And the latest news includes several series renewals on Showtime, a Lady Gaga TV special imported by the CW, and an update about the still-in-the-works movie version of 24...

2011

Aug

FX'S 'AMERICAN HORROR STORY': GET READY FOR FALL TV'S BEST, SCARIEST NEW SERIES By David Bianculli

LOS ANGELES -- Last year, an utterly underwhelming fall TV season from the broadcast networks was saved by a new cable-TV series, HBO's Boardwalk Empire, that blew the competition away. This year, another sub-par fall season again will be redeemed by an innovative, exciting cable newcomer...

2011

Aug

MSNBC HOSTS PREDICT NEXT PRESIDENT, IDENTIFY PAST TV PUNDIT INFLUENCES By David Bianculli

LOS ANGELES -- At a Television Critics Association press conference Tuesday, three high-profile MSNBC hosts were asked to predict who would win the next presidential election, and to identify the TV commentators who most inspired them before they themselves became TV commentators. Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and Lawrence O'Donnell, as usual, had no shortage of opinions...

2011

Aug

PRESS TOUR: PBS 'PROHIBITION' ANOTHER POTENT CONCOCTION FROM THE KEN BURNS TEAM By David Bianculli

The next documentary from Ken Burns and company, a six-hour look at Prohibition, will run Oct. 2-4 on PBS. It's another strong entry in the Burns canon, directed by Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and featuring, among many others, Last Call author Daniel Okrent. Except for Ward, all of them attended a Television Critics Association press conference Sunday night to discuss the new series -- and, afterward, to raise a glass or two...

2011

Jul

PRESS TOUR: HUGH LAURIE SUPPORTS THE BLUES, BUT NOT IPODS By David Bianculli

LOS ANGELES -- Hugh Laurie, the British star of Fox's House, occasionally has displayed his piano-playing prowess on that drama series -- but for a PBS Great Performances special Sept. 30, keyed to his new album of New Orleans blues, he brings his piano, his guitar and his voice center stage. And in explaining Saturday how he came to discover and love the music of Muddy Waters and others, Laurie made a larger point that isolated and attacked -- precisely and perfectly -- one of the biggest problems with our current multimedia culture...

2011

Jul

PRESS TOUR: VARIED PBS MENU INCLUDES GILBERT & SULLIVAN, PEARL JAM AND 'GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE' By David Bianculli

The PBS portion of the 2011 Television Critics Association summer press tour began Saturday, with news about an ambitious new arts series showcasing local and regional fare. It's called the PBS Arts Fall Festival, and it's a big enough umbrella to include Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park, a production of HMS Pinafore from Minnesota's Guthrie Theatre, and, as a Cameron Crowe study of the rise of Seattle grunge...

2011

Jul

SPOILER ALERT: ONCE AGAIN, I'M ATTACKING ABSURDLY TARDY SPOILER-ALERT SENSITIVITY By David Bianculli

I recently received a Twitter message (a Tweet, for you Savvier, Younger Communicators) from improv actor and teacher Kevin Mullaney, of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre fame, who takes me to task for revealing what he considers too much information..."Please stop revealing spoilers on your Fresh Air reviews..."

2011

Jul

'CURB,' 'ENTOURAGE': TWO HBO EIGHTH-SEASON SHOWS -- ONE IMPROVING, ONE OUTRAGEOUS By David Bianculli

Two of HBO's comedy series are now in their eighth seasons: Entourage, which returns Sunday night at 10:30 ET, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, which presents its third episode of its latest go-round Sunday night at 10 ET. Entourage uses the occasion to reshuffle the deck and put all its characters in flux -- but Curb, with Sunday's "Palestinian Chicken" episode, pushes its comedy provocation style to envelope-pushing, jaw-dropping levels...

2011

Jul

TWO, TWO, TWO BLOGS IN ONE: IT'S A LOVE STORY AND A TV REVIEW... By David Bianculli

Yesterday I raved about, and pointed you to, one of our veteran contributors, Ed Bark, whose pair of stories on media coverage of the Murdoch scandal I'm immensely proud to present on this site. Today, another point of pride, from another of our writers. Tom Brinkmoeller provides an intensely personal, yet touchingly funny, account of how and why his home TV viewing habits have changed...

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