SERIES PREMIERE: Not many people get to launch seasons of two different shows in as many days. Yesterday, Jennifer Lopez helped preside over the final season of Fox’s American Idol, and tonight she stars in a new police drama series, Shades of Blue, playing a cop whose conflicted career and home life unfurls in flashback over the course of a season. For Lopez fans, it’s a three-hour J-Lo fest: two hours of American Idol, followed by this. But for general police drama fans, it’s

2016

Jan

COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s newly streamed episode features Steve Martin, and he and Jerry Seinfeld poke fun at each other like they’re already in a buddy-comedy road picture. They aren’t – not technically, though they’re buddies, comedians, and on the road – but they should be. To watch, visit the Comedians in Cars Geting Coffee page on the Crackle website.

2016

Jan

READY OR NOT, HERE COME DUELING O.J. SERIES By David Hinckley

Whoever decided we need to revisit O.J. Simpson’s life and murder case with two multi-part television documentaries should now raise his or her hand and explain...

2016

Jan

ABC'S 'AMERICAN CRIME' CONNECTS ON A 'BIG SWING' By David Hinckley

If you want to see what a “big swing” really looks like on prime-time television, check out the second season of ABC’s American Crime...

2016

Jan

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 15 for American Idol – and the final one, since this former TV juggernaut, like others before it, eventually has seen its audience erode to the point where it’s no longer viable. And though it’s no longer the massive media phenomenon it once was, American Idol still deserves credit at succeeding where so many competition shows of its type have failed. Many series make stars of the judges, but not the talent – The Voice, I’m looking at

2016

Jan

MIKE & MOLLY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s a new season for Mike & Molly, and it’s a short one, as well as the final one. Regardless, Molly (Melissa McCarthy) now has another new job – this time on a radio show.

2016

Jan

AMERICAN CRIME By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 2 for American Crime, which takes the approach of American Horror Story by telling an all-new story while retaining many members of the original cast – but playing new characters entirely. So Timothy Hutton and Felicity Huffman, who last year played a divorced couple whose son was killed, are back for Season 2, but in completely different roles. So is Regina King, who won a Supporting Actress Emmy last year for playing the Muslim sister of a murder suspec

2016

Jan

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s the Season 11 premiere for this broad and bawdy comedy, which moved to FXX after years on more prominent sister network FX. What’s amazing is that – well, what’s really amazing is that this show has survived for 10 seasons. Let’s leave it at that.

2016

Jan

MAN SEEKING WOMAN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 2 for this outrageously surrealistic sitcom, which takes the idea of a character looking at life differently – think of the visual fantasies on Ally McBeal or, going back even more, My World and Welcome to It – and amplifies it. The images here are unexpected, unsetting, and sometimes unforgettable, all of which makes me look forward to a new batch of episodes. And the first shows of Season 2 more than meet my expectations, starting with the opener, wh

2016

Jan

ABC'S 'AMERICAN CRIME' RETURNS IN SUPERB FORM By Ed Bark

Cable network series, particularly dramas, were seriously challenged to measure up to the broadcast network counterparts. Now it’s a rarity when old-line networks equal or exceed the best that cable or streamers have been pouring out in abundance. ABC's Season 2 of American Crime is an exception to those new rules...

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