In this new episode, Dean Norris, formerly Hank on AMC’s Breaking Bad, guest stars in his recurring role as an Army general – confronted with a question about whether he’s secretly hired Sheldon to work on a classified military operation.

2017

Nov

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Things get messy, and deadly, in tonight’s new episode when the Penguin holds a fundraising dinner for his orphanage – and another Gotham City villain, the Pyg (a hogshead-wearing butcher of corrupt cops, played by Michael Cerveris), crashes the party as the self-appointed chef. My advice: Don’t order the pork.

2017

Nov

YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

This spinoff series is doing a very good job establishing and fleshing out its characters. Iain Armitage, in the title role, is a superb piece of casting, as is Zoe Perry as Sheldon’s mom. And last week, Annie Potts, as Sheldon’s grandmother Meemaw, proved another instant prized addition to this clever sitcom. And tonight, young Sheldon has a life-changing experience, one that we know will affect him greatly in the years to come: visiting his first comic-book store.

2017

Nov

EGG TIMERS ARE ALWAYS RUNNING FOR MAIN CHARACTERS By David Hinckley

After Wednesday night’s Blacklist, it just got a little harder to argue that prime-time TV isn’t becoming Game of Thrones... [Spoiler Alert ahead for The Blacklist fans...]

2017

Nov

NETLIX'S 'THE PUNISHER': ONE PART ANTIHERO, ONE PART VIGILANTE By David Hinckley

The latest video incarnation of The Punisher reconfirms that underneath a few recognizable Marvel trappings and nuances, what we really still have here is Charles Bronson...

2017

Nov

‘BEYOND A YEAR IN SPACE’ ALLOWS US TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT SPACE EXPLORATION By David Hinckley

One of the astronauts in PBS’s new Beyond a Year in Space documentary recalls that when she told a friend she was going into astronaut training, the friend said he thought we didn’t do that anymore...

2017

Nov

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

This week on The Voice, it’s the Playoffs: Four hours in which the remaining team members for each judge compete to survive, and move on to next week’s live shows. Jennifer Hudson and Blake Shelton cut their teams in half on Monday’s two-hour edition, and Adam Levine did the same last night. That means tonight belongs to Miley Cyrus, whose six singers, by the end of her hour, will be bisected to three. And the level of talent, all this week, has been competitively, and creative

2017

Nov

MR. ROBOT By David Bianculli

Last week’s special episode of Mr. Robot got a lot of attention because it was filmed to give the illusion that the entire episode was one unbroken take, filmed by a single camera. It wasn’t, but the trick was a good one, and a nice nod to Birdman. But for me, the biggest surprise with last week’s show was the music that opened it, in the elevator scene. It was a haunting, truly strange track from Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach opera – and a piece of music I ne

2017

Nov

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

On Sunday, I wrote that I was looking forward to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver just to see how Oliver would react to the week’s notably volatile headlines. Tonight, I’m writing the same thing about Samantha Bee. Her take on Roy Moore’s senatorial bid in Alabama, in particular, given the allegations piling up against him, ought to be… memorable.

2017

Nov

'YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORK HARD FOR THE BEAUTY': SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ON FILMING 'BLUE PLANET II' By Alex Strachan

Blue Planet II won’t bow in the U.S. until spring, 2018. BBC America won’t be more specific than that, at least for the time being. Even so, the David Attenborough-narrated follow-up to 2001’s The Blue Planet is already making waves, if you will...

Posts 91-100 of 193

9 10 11 12 13

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