SEASON PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. For those who care (and I do not count myself among them, so I’ll keep this brief), Scandal returns tonight with its Season 7 premiere.

2017

Oct

WILL & GRACE By David Bianculli

Last week, its return to NBC prime time, after so many years away, was a big deal. This week, Will & Grace already seems like a familiar and long-standing part of the current media landscape. That could be equal parts compliment and insult, so we’ll see how the next few episodes play out.

2017

Oct

THE ORVILLE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Seth MacFarlane’s captain meeting, and becoming quite enamored of, the attractive captain of a mining space ship, whose intriguing name is Pria Lavesque. And why not? Pria is played by the very beautiful, and obviously game, Charlize Theron, MacFarlane’s former cinematic co-star in his 2014 Western movie comedy, A Million Ways to Die in the West.

2017

Oct

‘RILLINGTON PLACE’ IS CHILLING By David Hinckley

Rillington Place marches through the bleak overcast of post-war London to a conclusion we don’t like and can’t change...

2017

Oct

NATURE: “NALEDI, ONE LITTLE ELEPHANT” By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 36 opener for Nature, so this particular PBS series has been around for quite a while. And tonight, it devotes itself to following the birth and early life of an elephant, where workers at Botswana’s Abu Camp work hard to raise the elephant baby to be strong enough to release back in the wild. It was born, by the way, after 661 days of pregnancy. So if you’ve recently had a baby, or are having one, don’t dare make any elephant comparisons. In

2017

Oct

MR. MERCEDES By David Bianculli

Episode 9. Tonight’s episode is titled “Ice Cream, You Scream, We All Scream” – and since the show’s deranged killer, Brady (Harry Treadaway), has been seen driving an ice cream truck since the premiere episode, this particular episodic title is not that difficult to parse.

2017

Oct

CLASSIC ALBUMS By David Bianculli

Paul Simon’s Graceland album was released in 1986, and took the music industry by storm. Some argued he was taking advantage of indigenous music and artists, others thought he was inadvertently supporting apartheid. But what he was doing was making a terrific album, and collaborating globally in a way that opened the door even more for what we now commonly call “world music.” All I know is, when the new-fangled technological miracle known as the compact disc finally was launche

2017

Oct

FRONTLINE: "NORTH KOREA'S DEADLY DICTATOR" By David Bianculli

The title of tonight’s Frontline isn’t just an examination of boisterous rhetoric. Rather, it’s an examination of the allegation that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had his half-brother killed – and what that may mean regarding the dictator’s temperament and determination. Check local listings.

2017

Oct

'NATURE' OPENS SEASON WITH THE MOVING TALE OF ONE LITTLE ELEPHANT By Alex Strachan

“Naledi” is the Setswana word for ‘star,’ but it's also the name of a 90-minute documentary about efforts to revive a sickly, wild elephant that was found orphaned and near death in a private wilderness reserve...

2017

Oct

TOUCHED BY ABC'S 'KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD' By Ed Bark

Given all the tragedies at hand, none among us should object to what’s essentially a remake of Touched By An Angel...

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