There are people around Alicia who aren’t very happy with her choices of late – either the cases she’s taking or the man with whom she’s working, quite closely. Tonight, the forces around the campaign try to make some adjustments – but, as regular viewers of this series know full well, Alicia doesn’t “adjust” easily.

2015

Dec

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Rupert Friend’s Peter Quinn didn’t die after all, which is a fate taken by several seemingly ill-fated regular characters on TV this fall. But that doesn’t mean Quinn is out of the woods. Not when Carrie, in search of critical information, decides to pull him out of his medically induced coma.

2015

Dec

ROBOT CHICKEN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: X-MAS UNITED By David Bianculli

In this new Robot Chicken holiday special, the Robot Chicken Nerd heads to the North Pole. His encounter with Santa Claus, however, is anything but a ho-ho-ho laughing matter. And what happens to poor Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is something you won’t soon forget. But like the rest of the crazy humor in this long-running Adult Swim franchise, it’s well worth a look.

2015

Dec

LINDA ELLERBEE'S FINALE: A BEMUSED 'HELLO, I MUST BE GOING' By David Hinckley

TV news is losing one of its coolest people. Linda Ellerbee, who has worked some of the more remote and interesting corners of the business for the last half century, is packing it in with a final edition of her Nick News for kids...

2015

Dec

MARY POPPINS By David Bianculli

Watch this 1964 Disney live-action movie, starring Julie Andrews as the umbrella-sporting heroine of the P.L. Travers story – then go find and watch 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, in which Emma Thompson plays Travers, and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, who pursues her tenaciously for the rights to make Mary Poppins into a movie. Each film, the one from 1964 and the one from nearly 50 years later, informs and enriches the other.

2015

Dec

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT By David Bianculli

Insurgent, starring Shailene Woodley as Tris, is the second film based on the Divergent trilogy of acclaimed Young Adult fantasy novels. First came Divergent in 2014, followed by Insurgent earlier this year. Next up: the concluding saga of the trilogy, Astringent, in which young Tris gets a pimple.

2015

Dec

HERE COMES MR. JORDAN By David Bianculli

Tonight’s lineup on TCM is devoted to “Afterlife Adventures,” starting with Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a 1941 movie that was remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait in 1978. The title role is played by Claude Rains (pictured, with Robert Montgomery playing the athlete who is separated from his body before his “time.” The title for Beatty’s remake comes from an earlier movie, from 1943 – which, conveniently, is shown at 10 p.m. ET, starring Don Ameche as a

2015

Dec

THE RETURNED By David Bianculli

Tonight’s installment is the penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Returned – and it returns us to that ominous housing complex.

2015

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Chris Hemsworth (seen here from his previous SNL appearance) is the host for tonight’s episode. Musical guest: Chance the Rapper.

2015

Dec

SYFY'S 'THE EXPANSE' LOOKS GREAT BUT STORY IS LOST IN SPACE By Ed Bark

Star Wars never would have gotten off the ground had it started this incomprehensibly...

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