Nathan Lane returns as Pepper, and he’s only one of many giddy guest stars peppering tonight’s wedding-preparations episode of Modern Family, with Cam and Mitchell (Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson) planning for their official big day.

2013

Oct

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION By David Bianculli

This series celebrates episode number 300 tonight, with a plot that has the crew revisiting an unsolved murder from 13 years ago. And that’s when CSI began broadcasting its episodes – which is why it’s especially apt that one of the original cast members, Marg Helgenberger, returns to help solve this very cold case. And reuniting with Jorja Fox as well…

2013

Oct

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN By David Bianculli

As we get closer to Halloween, do you need any other reason to tune in to TV’s scariest weekly series? (Well, other than Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.) Tonight, Fiona selects someone else to mentor – and it’s by no means an obvious choice.

2013

Oct

HERE LIES WALTER WHITE By Eric Gould

First there was an obit in the local paper and now, a group in Albuquerque is burying Breaking Bad character Walter White. Literally...

2013

Oct

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

The fifth episode in this series, premiering tonight, is called “Girl in the Flower Dress” – and here she is. Who she is, and why the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents follow her around the world, is better left a surprise. Especially since, until I see the show, I don’t know the answers to those questions myself.

2013

Oct

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS By David Bianculli

The Halloween episodes of this cable series have become a sort of mini-tradition, because the writers always seem to find ways to put the leading ladies into imaginative costumes and dispatch them to parties fraught with dangers. This year, the party they’re crashing, as part of their latest investigation, takes place in a graveyard – and their costumes of choice are perhaps best described as gaudy Edwardian.

2013

Oct

NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

Zooey Deschanel, as Jess, seems to have a preference for dressing up in costumes usually associated with men. Remember the wedding she attended as Elvis? Well, for tonight’s Halloween episode, she takes on a character from the Batman universe. Batgirl? Poison Ivy? Catwoman? Nah. Jess is donning the cowl of the Caped Crusader himself…

2013

Oct

SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

The fallout continues from the twin battles in which the club is engaged – one with the drug runners, the other with the police investigators. And while last week’s plot twists stretched credulity, this is no time to leave. Too much is happening, too quickly, and too many characters are at risk.

2013

Oct

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL By David Bianculli

This is an interview, on the eve of the 2013 World Series, that should prove really interesting. Gumbel’s guest – and make no mistake, Gumbel is a sharp interviewer – is Reggie Jackson. Booking Mr. October in October, that’s a nice move.

2013

Oct

REQUIEM FOR A GOLDEN AGE By Noel Holston

A golden age of television is now blindingly aglitter, if you agree with the critics and the fans who gush about Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Homeland... But what about the original “golden” age?

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