Tonight’s episode has Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) widening her social circle, and interests, and paying attention to her delivery “boy” – played by guest star, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran, Seth Green.

2017

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Sometimes, the best guests on Maher’s show aren’t celebrities, but experts, booked with perfect timing to react to the news. Tonight, for example, the guests include foreign policy expert Richard Haass and journalist John Avlon. Also scheduled: Grover Norquist, Tim Ryan, and Eva Longoria.

2017

Jan

RIP MARY TYLER MOORE: DEC. 29, 1936 TO JAN. 25, 2017 By Ed Bark

Mary Tyler Moore never actually worked for a real-life local TV news team. It just seemed that way because of her indelible role as indomitable Mary Richards of Minneapolis’ WJM-TV...

2017

Jan

MARY TYLER MOORE BROUGHT A NEW KIND OF MOM TO TV IN LAURA PETRIE By David Hinckley

Tell Laura I love her...

2017

Jan

‘RIVERDALE’ LOOKS NOTHING LIKE AN ‘ARCHIE’ COMIC BOOK – AND THAT’S NOT SUCH A BAD THING By David Hinckley

The CW’s new high school drama Riverdale should be sponsored by Red Bull, because chugging a six-pack may be the only way to keep up with it...

2017

Jan

‘RIVERDALE’: THE CW PULP NOVELIZES THOSE OLD GEE-WHIZ ARCHIE COMIC BOOKS By Ed Bark

Heisting storylines from both Twin Peaks and Dawson’s Creek, The CW’s Riverdale gives the venerable G-rated Archie Comics the most extreme makeover since Joaquin Phoenix went this way and that...

2017

Jan

FARMERS OPEN INSURANCE GOLF TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Why point out obscure Golf Channel coverage of a low-level PGA tournament on opening day? Because it’s part of an ongoing, unpredictable story: the potential, but by no means guaranteed, comeback of Tiger Woods. Woods has attempted comebacks several times before, trying to bounce back after a public scandal, health problems, back surgery, and an errant swing. But since turning professional, he’s never been away from a PGA tournament as long as he has here – 17 months. And suppo

2017

Jan

RIVERDALE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Boy, is this weird – but then again, Archie comics, on which this new CW teen series is based, always were weird anyway. When the comic-book series launched, Archie took place in some sort of semi-retro world of malt shops and letter sweaters – part Happy Days, part Pleasantville, with Archie Andrews as the all-American boy eternally torn between sweet blonde Betty and brunette vixen Veronica. For this new TV version, the malt shop and ponytails are still in vogue, b

2017

Jan

BASKETS By David Bianculli

Episode two of this second season of Baskets continues, and both the characters played by Zach Galifianakis are having a fairly rough time of it. Good thing the twins have their mom, played by Louie Anderson, for moral support – or is it?

2017

Jan

LIP SYNC BATTLE By David Bianculli

Today seems to be the day for ambivalent recommendations of very weird TV. Tonight’s installment of Lip Sync Battle, for example, features Milla Jovovich doing battle with her Resident Evil: The Final Chapter co-star Ruby Rose. And what’s so weird here is that Jovovich commits so completely to imitating Billy Idol as she lip-syncs to his “White Wedding” that her performance, like her wardrobe, is nothing to sneer at.

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