Galavant, an eight-episode musical comedy with back-to-back half hours on Sundays through January, may have problems gaining ratings traction. But that won’t be for lack of trying -- or entertainment value...

2015

Jan

NFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF: ARIZONA CARDINALS VS. CAROLINA PANTHERS By David Bianculli

Postseason in the NFL, and the road to Super Bowl XLIX, begins today with two back-to-back do-or-die games. First up is an NFC contest of two teams that hardly come to the postseason with bragging rights. The Arizona Cardinals lost four of their final six games and limped into the playoffs, while the Carolina Panthers, surging with four victories to end the regular season, comes to the postseason with a losing record: 7-8-1. Yet that was enough, in the NFC South, to take the division, and keep g

2015

Jan

BUS STOP By David Bianculli

Marilyn Monroe was on a quest to get more respect for her acting ability when she agreed to star in this 1956 film version of the William Inge play – and she got it, with a raw, riveting performance in which she plays a sort of American Sally Bowles from Cabaret.

2015

Jan

AFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF: BALTIMORE RAVENS VS. PITTSBURGH STEELERS By David Bianculli

This AFC wild card game pits the Pittsburgh Steelers, who won the AFC North, against the Baltimore Ravens, who squeaked in by securing the last available wild-card slot. Now it’s all or nothing – and in the regular season, each team claimed a victory against the other, so expect a tough fight.

2015

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests: Eddie Redmayne, who stars as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything; Liam Neeson; Anna Kendrick; Olympic gold medal cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins; and musical guest Conchita.

2015

Jan

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE By David Bianculli

A 1955 classic, tapping into the angst of a younger generation and helping to make James Dean an instant, and seemingly indelible, icon of youthful restlessness and sensitivity.

2015

Jan

THE WALKING DEAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

The series-to-date marathon continues – and today, all day, we get the most recent episodes, with our favorite survivors separated into smaller groups, and facing various, usually very serious, dangers.

2015

Jan

THE ODD COUPLE By David Bianculli

Fridays in January this new year, it’s Neil Simon night – and this first Friday of 2015 begins with the comic playwright’s classic 1968 movie version of his hit Broadway play. Walter Matthau plays slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison, and Jack Lemmon is recently divorced fussbudget Felix Ungar. Watch because, in a few months, Matthew Perry will be starring in a new sitcom spinoff – playing, somewhat surprisingly, the Oscar role. But also watch because this movie is flat-ou

2015

Jan

BILLY JOEL: “THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE” By David Bianculli

This songwriting salute to Billy Joel includes him in the action as an observer, a participant (he gets on stage at the end), and in full-length vintage performance clips. The best clip – Joel and his band in their prime – is from their groundbreaking 1987 concert trip to Russia, and has them burning through “Only the Good Die Young,” bowling over the excited Russian youngsters with undiluted American rock ’n’ roll. And when Joel takes the stage to cap this tr

2015

Jan

WIVES WITH KNIVES By David Bianculli

It’s been a few years since Investigation Discovery launched this docudrama series recreating cases about women either defending themselves, or on the attack, with sharp blades. It’s one of the few first-run series on TV tonight – and though I’m by no means recommending it, I am listing it here to point out one thing that occurred to me, given the show’s title. Were this program on the Food Network, it’d be a completely different type of TV series.

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