In tonight’s new episode, Amy and Halley celebrate birthdays – but because of the people planning those birthdays, things don’t exactly go as smoothly as they could.

2017

Dec

DRESSED TO KILL By David Bianculli

This 1980 Brian De Palma thriller is most notable for its early set piece featuring Angie Dickinson, and for its much later set piece featuring Nancy Allen. But there are other memorable elements, too, including Dennis Franz, playing a pre-Hill Street Blues detective, who interrogates person of interest, psychologist Michael Caine.

2017

Dec

YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

Road trip! In tonight’s new episode, Sheldon hits the open road, with his dad in the driver’s seat and his older brother along for the ride – to Cape Canaveral and the latest space shot.

2017

Dec

TARAJI'S WHITE HOT HOLIDAYS By David Bianculli

Fox is devoting tonight’s schedule to new holiday specials. First up, at 8 p.m. ET, is Steve Harvey, hosting Showtime at the Apollo: Christmas in Harlem. But the flashier special arrives at 9 ET, when Taraji P. Henson from Empire hosts, in what is becoming an annual TV event, a Christmas special full of music, fun – and, as expected from a fiery Christmas Cookie, lots of outrageous costumes.

2017

Dec

THE GOLDEN GLOBES 75TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Eric McCormack and Debra Messing of NBC’s Will & Grace are the hosts of this celebration, which looks back at 75 years of Golden Globes celebrations. Pay particular attention, if this special has the nerve to show it, of the shockingly unexpected Star of the Year Award bestowed in 1982, to a then-unknown starlet named Pia Zadora. How unknown? The film for which she “won,” Butterfly, which had been financed by her wealthy husband, hadn’t even been

2017

Dec

FAKE NEWS WITH TED NELMS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Ed Helms stars as, uh, Ted Nelms, in this new Comedy Central series, which presents Helms, as Nelms, anchoring a program of completely fabricated news. And yet it premieres the day after the Alabama special election for senator, so real news, right now, seems astounding enough. Yet here it is, with Fake News making fun of the format and presentation of the news more adeptly than any series since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

2017

Dec

MR. ROBOT By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is Episode 10 of Season 3 – which makes it an especially significant episode, though not necessarily a clarifying one.

2017

Dec

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Ed Helms may not be mining comedy from yesterday’s Alabama special election for senator – but you better believe that his former Daily Show fellow correspondent, Samantha Bee, sure will be doing just that on tonight’s new episode.

2017

Dec

ASSISTING THE MIGRATION ALONG ‘PANAMA’S ANIMAL HIGHWAY’ By Roger Catlin

Panama is mostly spoken of in terms of its canal and its role in connecting two great oceans for navigation. But the isthmus also connects two continents and thus allows migration of species between North and South America...

2017

Dec

‘THE LIBRARIANS’ RETURNS, FOR SEASON 4, WITH JOHN NOBLE By David Hinckley

TNT’s The Librarians has decided to get weirder and have even more fun...

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