In tonight’s episode, Dennis Quaid gets to walk into a bar, listen for a few seconds to the rude comments of a boisterous patron, then throw him through the window and out onto the street. Yes, I know this fact-based story is set in 1950s Las Vegas – but from Quaid’s demeanor to his wardrobe, this new CBS series really is a wild Western in disguise.

2012

Oct

SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

After what happened to Opie on last week’s show, some fans have revolted against this series, while others, myself included, have embraced it all the more for its ruthless unpredictability. What will happen this week, as the Sons are out of prison? I’m almost afraid to guess – and to watch. But I will. (Watch, not guess.)

2012

Oct

'FAMILY GUY' CREATOR SETH MCFARLANE TO HOST 2013 OSCARS By Ed Bark

Oscar organizers returned to a headlong pursuit of younger viewers by naming Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to host the 85th annual ceremony...

2012

Oct

'SESAME STREET''S PLUCKY PARODY OF HBO'S 'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' By Christy Slewinski

Perhaps Steve Buscemi's Nucky Thompson could learn a thing or two about compromise from the Sesame Street parody of his gangster drama, Boardwalk Empire...

2012

Oct

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Breaking Bad fans, take heed. Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) wants to hire an unscrupulous lawyer to craft a very crafty pre-nup. Who ya gonna call? Better call Saul! Or, at least, guest star Bob Odenkirk, who plays Saul the slimy attorney on Breaking Bad. And who, on seven previous occasions, has played slimy lawyer Arthur Hobbs on this sitcom.

2012

Oct

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD By David Bianculli

Walking Dead fans, take heed. Tonight IFC repeats the original iconic zombie movie – George A. Romero’s 1968 low-budget classic, the one that set the filmmaking rules by which Walking Dead still plays.

2012

Oct

PRIMARY COLORS By David Bianculli

With the 2012 presidential election now only about a month away, here’s a timely showing of Mike Nichols’ very funny, and quite insightful, 1998 political satire, which stars John Travolta and Emma Thompson as a very Clintonian power couple.

2012

Oct

CASTLE By David Bianculli

Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, who since her days playing Don Johnson’s daughter on Nash Bridges has played a number of increasingly risky roles – from a femme fatale on Prison Break to a psychotic witch on Two and a Half Men. Tonight she has a more mainstream guest role, as an entertainment reporter who’s attracted to Castle (Nathan Fillion). And, based on this photograph, the feeling’s mutual.

2012

Oct

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN By David Bianculli

Stephen Colbert is on the promo circuit pushing his new book – and here’s one of his first stops, in this new installment of Letterman’s New York-based talk show.

2012

Oct

2003: ABC INTRODUCED 'KAREN SISCO' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 2003, ABC debuted Karen Sisco, a series spun from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel, Out of Sight, and the same-name 1998 film...

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