In the first season of this long-running fashion design series, its contestants were given a particularly inventive and challenging assignment: shop at a grocery store and design dresses made out of food. (Lettuce, entertain you!) And tonight, there’s another out-of-the-box challenge: the contestants are charged with creating avant garde garments using 3D printers.

2015

Oct

HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. By David Bianculli

This entry in TCM’s month-long Trailblazing Women salute to female filmmakers is Barbara Kopple’s 1976 documentary, Harlan County, U.S.A. It’s about a tense and often violent strike by coal miners in Kentucky – and if you’ve just purchased the complete series DVD set of Justified, you might want to watch this as a scene-setting appetizer. Or a perspective-offering encore. Either way, it’s worth it.

2015

Oct

SOULFUL PBS NATURE FILM 'SOUL OF THE ELEPHANT' BOTH MOVING AND UNPREDICTABLE By Alex Strachan

By their own estimate, nature filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert have devoted 10 months of the year for the past 30 years in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, making films for the National Geographic Society...

2015

Oct

A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC By Monique Nazareth

In case you missed it, recently CBS’s late night hosts got together on The Late Show to display their musical theater skills...

2015

Oct

2015 AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES By David Bianculli

Today’s two games, because they’re both Game 5s in their respective series, decide which teams will move on to compete for the American League pennant. Game 1, starting at 4 p.m. ET, has the Toronto Blue Jays against the Texas Rangers. The Blue Jays fought back in this best-of-five series after the Rangers took the first two games, and now have home-field advantage, and the momentum, for this decisive fifth game. Then, at 8 p.m. ET, it’s the Houston Astros vs. the Kansas City R

2015

Oct

NATURE: 'SOUL OF THE ELEPHANT' By David Bianculli

Many of the documentaries and TV news pieces about elephants these days are horrifying, grisly stories about ivory poachers, who kill these giant animals just for the value of their tusks. This documentary, Soul of the Elephant, goes another route, focusing on what may be one of the only spots left on the planet where elephants can, and do, die of old age. And then it asks us to imagine, and in part experience, the life and life span of those animals. For a full story, and interview with the nat

2015

Oct

EMPIRE By David Bianculli

The synopsis for tonight’s episode promises the making of a music video – and that, in itself, ought to make this hour very, very watchable. And with Cookie around, the behind-the-scenes antics are bound to be no less energetic.

2015

Oct

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT By David Bianculli

Dick Wolf’s Law & Order series – all of them – have enjoyed getting inspiration from recent headlines, and starting with a topical and familiar-sounding story, then spinning it into unexpected directions. Tonight’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit does just that, by starting with a police officer’s shooting of an unarmed black man.

2015

Oct

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL By David Bianculli

Last week’s premiere set the stage for this new, Lady Gaga-led iteration of American Horror Story – and drew a large number of viewers. It also drew new viewers, Lady Gaga fans, who may have been totally unprepared for the violence in this series – but it was consistent, in tone and content, with previous seasons. The real question is whether tonight’s second episode, now that the setting and characters have been introduced, will go in an interesting direction.

2015

Oct

WHY THE OLD-LINE 'OVERNIGHT' RATINGS AREN'T AS 'VIRTUALLY MEANINGLESS' AS NETWORK HEADS SAY THEY ARE By Ed Bark

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas-based critic Ed Bark uses the Dallas-Fort Worth [D-FW] market to show why stations around the country are still vitally concerned about "overnight" Nielsen numbers instead of total viewership...

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