With television drama, it’s not often that we get to say OMG, look what just splashed down. With Louie C.K.’s new Horace and Pete, we do. It's a 67-minute drama that C.K. posted on his website Saturday, without advance notice...

2016

Jan

IT'S O.J. ALL OVER AGAIN: THE NEW AND SPELLBINDING FIRST EDITION OF FX'S 'AMERICAN CRIME STORY' By Ed Bark

What’s a hotter TV commodity than even the presidential candidate debates? That would be true crime, whether scripted or otherwise. Not that it ever really went away...

2016

Jan

GREASE: LIVE! By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: NBC is the network that revived the concept of live TV musical specials, with The Sound of Music and others, but it’s the Fox network that may solidify the trend. At the end of the year, it’s presenting a live telecast of The Rocky Horror Show, starring transgender Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox. And tonight, Fox presents a revised stage version of one of the most durable musicals of the past two generations: Grease, starring Julianne Hough as Sandy (pictured),

2016

Jan

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

This documentary series launched itself at the perfect time, as each week leading up to tomorrow’s Iowa caucus seems to have been more momentous, and more unpredictable. And now, we’re on the brink of the first votes cast in the race for the 2016 presidential nominees – with The Circus covering, among other things, the Donald Trump-less Republican debate.

2016

Jan

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

All season, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has run afoul of one particular judge – and tonight, she does it again.

2016

Jan

MASTERPIECE: "DOWNTON ABBEY" By David Bianculli

“Racing cars and pigs – who could better that?” Only Downton Abbey, which also presents a visit to Downton by Neville Chamberlain, where politics are thick and tempers are simmering – until an unexpected outburst, at that very tony dinner, that shakes the household to its core. For a rundown and reaction of each week’s Downton Abbey episode, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.

2016

Jan

BILLIONS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “Yum Time.” Given the sexual predilections of this show’s primary characters, that might be construed as some sort of happy-ending sexual act – but it’s actually the name of a candy Axelrod (Damien Lewis) used to love as a kid, and whose current incarnation distresses him enough to do something about it. I can relate. If I had Axelrod’s money, I might buy up Chips Ahoy! – just to make them go back to the cookie’s o

2016

Jan

REMEMBERING ABE VIGODA: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ MARATHON By David Bianculli

In tribute to the late Abe Vigoda, who died Tuesday at age 94, Antenna TV is presenting a six-hour marathon of Barney Miller episodes showcasing Vigoda as his most beloved character, the world-weary, and everything-else-weary, Fish. The tribute begins at 4 p.m. ET, but the key hour is the last, at 9 p.m. ET, when the nostalgic TV network repeats the one-hour “Goodbye, Mr. Fish,” the “retirement” episode in which Fish left the precinct. Actually, he was heading off to a sp

2016

Jan

THE ARTFUL DETECTIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode in this period series is called “Marked Twain” – and yes, indeed, it features a plot in which the esteemed author, in the latter years of his life, visited Canada to give a lecture, and was shot at by someone upset with his writing and views. Murdoch and company set out to protect this visiting American writer – and while the plot is intriguing on its own merits, what makes this episode worth a visit is the actor playing Mark Twain: It’s Will

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