MIDSEASON RETURN: Poor Michael (Ted Danson). He’s proven to be such a poor designer of hellish tortures – literally, new ways to torture people in hell – that he’s now in danger of being fired. And fire, in hell, is a very serious threat. So he and his android assistant Janet (D’Arcy Carden), whom he stole from a warehouse of helpful assistants in heaven, are trying to fool the bosses, and even enlisting his supposed torture victims, led by Kristen Bell’s Elea

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YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new episode, Sheldon gets sent off to a school for the gifted – and is understandably apprehensive about it, because he’s apprehensive about everything. But he’s got his grandmother to bolster his confidence – and already this first season of Young Sheldon, the scenes between young Sheldon (Iain Armitage) and his Meemaw (the great Annie Potts) have emerged as the show’s warm center, and true heart.

2018

Jan

'GROWN-ISH,' THE 'BLACK-ISH' SPINOFF, DEBUTS By David Hinckley

Yara Shahidi does a nice pivot as she hops into her very own grown-ish, a spinoff from the hit black-ish...

2018

Jan

SEASON 5, PART II – 'THE BLACKLIST' RETURNS By David Hinckley

Not since the golden age of the Steven Seagal / Sylvester Stallone / Charles Bronson vigilante flicks has a character gotten more sheer pleasure out of killing bad guys than Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone)...

2018

Jan

THE AMAZING RACE 30 By David Bianculli

CYCLE PREMIERE: This is go-round (or go-round-the-planet) number 30 for The Amazing Race, which years ago was one of the few reality competition series I watched regularly. But after many years of increasingly obvious stunt casting, with pairs of contestants who didn’t get along or had prejudices or other easily inflamed attitudes, the players got in the way of the scenery. My feel-good competition reality show switched to The Voice, and has stayed there ever since. But here’s The Am

2018

Jan

THE X-FILES By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Fox sent six of the 10 episodes of this Season 11 of The X-Files for preview, and those six, beginning with tonight’s mythology-continuing episode, pretty much fall into line with previous years. The mythology itself, the show’s intermittent tale of alien visitations and government conspiracies, starts off as the driest and most disappointing element. The stand-alone “monster of the week” episodes are more enjoyable, and truer to the show’s most suc

2018

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9-1-1 By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Of late, producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have done no wrong. Most seasons of American Horror Story, and the first seasons of Feud: Bette and Joan and American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, have been artistic and ratings successes, and the upcoming Season 2 of American Crime Story, titled The Assassination of Gianni Versace, looks promising also. But this new 9-1-1 series from the executive producer partners, despite a terrific cast led by some personal favorite

2018

Jan

'THE X-FILES' FIRES UP ANEW IN TIMES WHEN THE TRUTH IS ANYTHING BUT OUT THERE By Ed Bark

Whatever the depth of your fandom or ignorance, the ABCs of The X-Files generally are the equivalent of seven Scrabble letters. They seldom add up to a whole...

2018

Jan

ALEXANDER HAMILTON By David Bianculli

Fans of Broadway’s Hamilton, compare and contrast. This 1931 movie stars George Arliss in the title role, and focuses on two particular periods in the revolutionary politician’s life: his push to establish a federal banking system, and his reaction to being blackmailed for an extramarital affair. His affair is with Mariah Reynolds, played by June Collyer (pictured, with Arliss as Hamilton). Turn on the TV in your family room at noon ET, and you can be in the room where it happens&hel

2018

Jan

ELLEN'S GAME OF GAMES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Ellen DeGeneres and company spent a lot of money on the set here, and doubtlessly a good percentage (or promise of a percentage) on Ellen herself – but if this game show, drawing from and expanding upon the feel-good games she plays occasionally on her daytime series, clicks in prime time, it’ll also be partially due to the contestants. They are so excited to be there, and taking part, and interacting with DeGeneres as the host, that they make the contestants on The

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