In 2015, Danny Boyle directed Aaron Sorkin’s cleverly constructed screenplay, and created a less than flattering, but never less than fascinating, biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Michael Fassbender starred as Jobs in that movie. In tonight’s new two-hour study, directed by documentarian Alex Gibney, it’s Jobs himself who takes center stage, in a new nonfiction examination of the man, his methods, and his marketing savvy.

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GALAXY QUEST By David Bianculli

I’ve seen a lot of Syfy the last few days, as it works its way through the entire Twilight Zone canon. That finishes up this morning, but I’ve seen plenty of on-air promos for another tasty treat, shown by the network in prime time tonight: a showing of the dazzlingly clever, surprisingly touching 1999 comedy Galaxy Quest, starring Tim Allen as a William Shatlner-type star of a Star Trek-tyke TV show, enlisted with his former “crew” by alien visitors who believe the heroe

2016

Jan

CUMBERBATCH SPECIAL GIVES US A SNAPSHOT OF 'SHERLOCK' By David Hinckley

Sometimes the best chefs turn out a meal that’s only adequate, and that’s what happened Friday night with PBS’s beloved Sherlock...

2016

Jan

REFINISH AN ANTIQUE? NEVER. BUT SPIFFING UP A 'ROADSHOW' APPRECIATES ITS VALUE By Tom Brinkmoeller

By definition, PBS' Antiques Roadshow doesn't have near the antiquity to make it the very thing it spotlights... But in television timelines, the 20th Antiques Roadshow season makes it a rare video survivor, a collectable on many a DVR...

2016

Jan

THE TWLIGHT ZONE MARATHON By David Bianculli

Syfy’s in-sequence, every-episode mega-marathon of The Twilight Zone is still going strong – and takes longer, now that we’re into the one-hour episodes from Season 4. Season 5, returning to the 30-minute format, begins at 7 p.m. ET, and that’s when you’ll get more of the timeless classics – including, at 7 p.m. ET, William Shatner in 1963’s “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” and, at 8:30 p.m. ET, Telly Savalas being terrorized by a doll in “L

2016

Jan

I'LL HAVE WHAT PHIL'S HAVING By David Bianculli

STREAMING PREMIERE: It may seem redundant, as well as gluttonous, to binge on a food show, but all six episodes of Phil Rosenthal’s I’ll Have What Phil’s Having, produced last year for PBS, are available starting today on Netflix. Warning: They’re habit-forming, but it’s a good habit, and a good series. Pick your favorite city or country of the six he profiles, from Italy to Barcelona, and enjoy where the food-loving, people-loving co-creator of Everybody Loves Raym

2016

Jan

THE GRINDER MARATHON By David Bianculli

It’s a New Year, and apparently TV is giving us lots of opportunities to enjoy things we may have missed the first time around. Here’s an FX marathon of every episode to date of a series from its sister network Fox: The Grinder, starring Fred Savage and Rob Lowe. Lowe plays a TV actor whose courtroom series is cancelled, and Savage plays the little brother, with the actual law firm, to whom big brother returns, and decides to continue to “play” a lawyer. It’s one of

2016

Jan

THE CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

In a political season, it should be required viewing to watch this 1972 movie, starring Robert Redford as a politician running for the U.S. Senate, who’s so far behind in the polls, he decides to throw in the towel by speaking the truth. TCM is calling this film one of “The Essentials” – and now that we’re in an election year, it’s precisely that.

2016

Jan

ASH VS. EVIL DEAD By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The first season of Ash vs. Evil Dead ends with Bruce Campbell’s Ash facing down evil – but with a twist. Evil, at this moment, is in the shape of Lucy Lawless, and she’s offering him not a fight to the death, but a truce, and a chance at a wonderful life: including his dream of a fishing paradise in Jacksonville, FL.

2016

Jan

THROUGH THE 'FAMILY GUY' PRISM WITH FOX'S 'BORDERTOWN' By Ed Bark

This one’s been idling for a while after being announced long before Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump injected his views on illegal immigration and how he’d stop it...

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