This 1934 Frank Capra comedy was the first movie to sweep all the major Oscars – film, director, actor (Clark Gable) and actress (Claudette Colbert), and earned them all. It’s a delightfully funny, unexpectedly modern road picture, about a cynical reporter who blackmails his way into accompanying a runaway heiress on her flight to… somewhere.

2014

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Please watch this hour, if you’ve never seen talk show host Graham Norton. This hour is a compilation of some of his best moments from the current season – and if the producers are smart enough to include such Season 14 highlights as Paul McCartney verbally sparring with Katy Perry, and Elton John responding to one of Norton’s questions by playfully telling him to “f--- off,” this show should turn any first-time viewer into an instant convert.

2014

Jan

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE By David Bianculli

This 1944 movie, another Frank Capra-directed comedy classic, captures the lunacy of the original Joseph Kesserling stage play, thanks to a screenplay by Julius and Philip Epstein and a fearlessly funny lead performance by Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster. Raymond Massey is just fine as Jonathan Brewster, the villainous brother whose botched plastic surgeries have him looking like Frankenstein’s monster – but those references must have elicited even bigger laughs in the 1

2014

Jan

SARAH PALIN: RED, WHITE AND SHOES By Bill Brioux

Did TVWW contributor Bill Brioux attend Friday's Television Critics Association breakfast with Sarah Palin? You betcha...

2014

Jan

CNN'S NEW PLANS: SERIES YES, LENO NO By Donna J. Plesh

Is CNN interested in joining the late-night talk show wars by importing Jay Leno? According to former NBC executive and current CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker, not at this time...

2014

Jan

HBO’S RENEWS 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' FOR FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON By Donna J. Plesh

Prohibition is almost over again. Really. HBO’s Prohibition-era set drama, Boardwalk Empire, will be back this fall for a fifth and final season...

2014

Jan

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

Bill Moyers had announced his intention to stop his public TV series by now, until being persuaded otherwise by fans who begged him to remain a presence and provide his voice to the media mix. (Count me as one of those beggars.) Well, the new version of Moyers & Company begins tonight – trimmed from 60 to 30 minutes, but still determined to examine important issues in a way, and at a depth, that few other TV programs even attempt. Tonight’s inaugural edition of this series reboot

2014

Jan

CHEECH & CHONG'S ANIMATED MOVIE By David Bianculli

The twisted, more than half-baked comedy minds of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong entertained millions of moviegoing and record-buying stoners (and a few others) in the 1970s – and here are their routines all over again, reimagined through animation. See “Dave’s not here!” and other bits, strewn together in this new 2012 production. Then stay tuned at 9:45 p.m. for Up in Smoke, the duo’s 1978 live-action comedy. Compare and contrast.

2014

Jan

"SCIENCE IN THE MOVIES" MARATHON By David Bianculli

For January 2014, one of the month’s themes at TCM is “Science in the Movies,” a compilation, every Friday, of movies concerned with themes of scientific inquiry, and, usually, science gone awry. Tonight, the action begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein (pictured), followed at 9:30 p.m. ET by 1941’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, at 11:30 p.m. ET by 1951’s The Thing from Another World, and at 1:15 a.m. ET by 1956’s genre reworking of Shakespear

2014

Jan

BANSHEE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 1 of this Cinemax action series ended with a brutal beating, torturing and climax that demanded notice, and put more than one of its main characters through the wringer. Season 2 begins with them healing, slowly, as outside threats and dangers continue. One new one, this year, is an incoming investigative avenger played by Zeljko Ivanek – but, as before, this series belongs chiefly to the women, starting with Ivana Milicevek as Carrie, who, like most characters on t

Posts 131-140 of 199

13 14 15 16 17

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption