This show isn’t good, really, but tonight’s guest-star turn is sort of noteworthy. It’s Janet Montgomery, making her third appearance in as many years as Princess Mithian. But since her most recent appearance, the British actress starred in an American TV series, sporting a very American accent, on the deservedly short-lived CBS drama Made in Jersey.

2013

Jan

30 ROCK By David Bianculli

This penultimate episode of 30 Rock has Liz (Tina Fey) reeling after the news that her series – TGS, the show-within-a-show on this show – has been canceled. She may or may not handle it well, but we don’t have to worry about Fey. After eight years in late-night TV on Saturday Night Live and seven years in prime time on 30 Rock, the woman deserves a break. And lots of applause.

2013

Jan

ROAD TO MOROCCO By David Bianculli

This 1942 comedy, one of the very best of the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road pictures, is a great place to begin if you’ve yet to see one of these. Be prepared for a very modern-feeling, fourth-wall-breaking romp. This time out, Hope and Crosby play stowaways who end up in a desert city, competing for the attention and love of a gorgeous princess. And that princess is played by Dorothy Lamour, so she’s worth the effort. Also co-starring: Anthony Quinn.

2013

Jan

GLEE By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: After a post-holiday hiatus, this series returns with a new episode – one that’s built not around a music competition, but about the school’s Sadie Hawkins dance. Among the musical selections in this episode: “No Scrubs” and “Baby Got Back.” Make of that what you will.

2013

Jan

ARCHER By David Bianculli

In this new episode, the voice of a new character, playing an old, and very competitive, friend of Archer’s, may sound familiar. That’s because it is. The voice is that of guest star Timothy Olyphant, from Deadwood and the current Justified, taking time out to have fun as a fellow secret agent.

2013

Jan

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE By David Bianculli

Every night for years, almost without fail, Jimmy Kimmel has ended his show by apologizing to Matt Damon for being bumped – a running gag so long, and so effective, it’s a marathon-running gag. And tonight, now that Kimmel has moved to 11:35 p.m. ET, Damon finally has been booked on the show officially. He’s appeared in viral videos for the show, and appeared in other playful cameos, but this makes it official. Unless the monologue runs long, and Kimmel bumps him.

2013

Jan

'SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED' READY FOR ITS LAST STABS AT GORY GLORY By Ed Bark

The Starz network's most popular original series remains gratuitously gruesome to behold for its final season...

2013

Jan

'NATURE' AT ITS FINEST By Christy Slewinski

The first of the three-part series Nature: Attenborough's Life Stories, which focuses on Sir David Attenborough and his 60-plus years as a natural-history TV host...

2013

Jan

'RISE OF THE DRONES' A SKY-HIGH CAUTIONARY TALE FROM 'NOVA' By Ed Bark

Nova's Rise of the Drones isn't an alarmist hour, but does raise some caution flags about a rapidly escalating and evolving technology...

Posts 41-50 of 204

4 5 6 7 8

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption