NEW TIME: This time shift is only a half hour from Kimmel’s former midnight slot, but for him, and for ABC, it’s a step in the right direction. It replaces Nightline, which hasn’t been as valuable since Ted Koppel left, and pits Kimmel directly against NBC’s Jay Leno and CBS’s David Letterman. Another round of the late-night talk-show war begins – but notice, this time, how much less notice it’s getting.

2013

Jan

'FRONTLINE': SCHOOLING THE SYSTEM By Eric Gould

Frontline's new documentary on former Washington D.C. public school Chancellor Michelle Rhee teaches some valuable lessons about how we're able — or unable — to change American education...

2013

Jan

NBC'S NEW 'DECEPTION' NOT A NOTABLE EXCEPTION By Ed Bark

Deception is fairly far from being a terrible series. But it's not nearly compelling enough to merit a prolonged string-along...

2013

Jan

1982: 'GLEE' PRECURSOR 'FAME' MAKES ITS DEBUT By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1982, NBC introduced the drama, Fame, a series spun from the same-name 1980 film...

2013

Jan

FRANTIC By David Bianculli

This 1988 Roman Polanski movie uses the city of Paris as a primary character, as the backdrop for a Hitchcockian thriller about an ordinary man caught by an underworld of deadly intrigue. Harrison Ford – an excellent equivalent of Hitchcock’s favorite leading man, Jimmy Stewart – plays a doctor attending an overseas medical convention with his wife. After the wife vanishes, the good doctor searches Paris to find her, teaming up with the most unlikely of Paris guides: a young he

2013

Jan

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS By David Bianculli

This 1965 film was directed and co-written by Federico Fellini, and is one of the wildly imaginative visual narratives that solidified his reputation as a world-class pioneering film director. It stars Giulietta Masina as a woman haunted by, among other things, the infidelity of her husband, a problem that is solved with insights from, for starters, a friendly prostitute. Masina was Fellini’s wife, making her nakedness here – emotionally, that is – all the more intimate.

2013

Jan

BCS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: NOTRE DAME VS. ALABAMA By David Bianculli

If you’ve watched any or all of the dozens of college bowls this year, they’ve all been leading up to, and you’ve all been waiting for, this one. Notre Dame, ranked No. 1, plays Alabama, ranked No. 2, for bragging rights to the national championship title.

2013

Jan

P.O.V.: "REPORTERO" By David Bianculli

In Mexico, more than 50 journalists have been killed, or have vanished without a trace, in the past six years, while reporting on the Mexican drug trade. This new edition of P.O.V. follows some of the stubbornly brave and inquisitive reporters at Zeta, an independent newsweekly based in Tijuana. In the United States, it’s the newspapers that are dying. In Mexico, shockingly, it’s the reporters. Check local listings.

2013

Jan

THE STAIRCASE By David Bianculli

Part 1 of 8. This 2004 documentary series has been updated, with two new installments to finish it off and update the story of Michael Peterson, who in 2001 called authorities to report that his wife had fallen down the stairs, to her death, in their lavish North Carolina home. It’s a call, and a case, that quickly uncovered, and unraveled, an entire different set of mysteries, accusations and surprises – all of which led to Peterson being charged with murder. Even without the

2013

Jan

MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD By David Bianculli

PBS and local member stations no longer provide enough regular time slots for the late Fred Rogers’ brilliantly sincere TV series, so parents have to pick up the slack for themselves...there are still some DVD stand-alone episodes worth collecting on DVD that are a great starting place for introducing a new generation of the soothing, inspirational shows of Fred Rogers...

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