SEASON PREMIERE: After a marvelous Season 1, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel stunned everyone at the most recent Emmy awards – winning, among other things, best supporting actress (Alex Borstein, as Midge Maisel’s dedicated manager), best actress (Rachel Brosnanan, in the title role), best comedy writing (for co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino), and, the biggest plum of all for Amazon, Outstanding Comedy Series. Each and every Emmy was well deserved – and Tony Shalhoub, as Midge’

2018

Dec

SOPHIA LOREN SALUTE By David Bianculli

An eight-film salute to Sophia Loren tonight begins at 8 ET with 1964’s cracklingly funny Marriage, Italian Style, co-starring Marcello Mastroianni, and includes, at 10:45 p.m. ET, Loren’s 2016 live-on-stage interview at that year’s TCM Film Festival. The photo is from Marriage, Italian Style, and I choose it purely in my guise as a cinematic historian. Right, guise?

2018

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THE HISTORY OF SAVING OUR SHOWS RECOUNTED IN 'UNITED WE FAN' By David Hinckley

More and more television shows, you may have noticed, never really die. They seem to, then spring back to life. They’re zombies. In a good way...

2018

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Yesterday, the top 10 contestants sang on live TV to stick around – and a lot of them sang not only before the country, but sang country. Tonight, there’s an instant save in play, but there’s also a double elimination.

2018

Dec

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON FINALE: Everyone’s cornered, or angry, or both – and for this confrontational midseason finale, Polaris (at right) has not only a new intensity, and a new mission, but a newly fashioned (and, to her, meaningful) headband.

2018

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HEAVEN'S GATE By David Bianculli

Michael Cimino’s 1980 film has a reputation as a colossal waste of money (and, to some, celluloid), but time and perspective has given the film a brighter sheen – at least among those willing to revisit, with an open mind, the director’s cut re-edit of Cimino’s original vision. MGM shows that tonight, at full length – and with such always interesting stars as Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, John Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, and Kris Kristoff

2018

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Tonight we’re into the final laps, as The Voice sets up a live competition among this cycle’s surviving Top 10.

2018

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DEAL OR NO DEAL By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: This game show, hosted by Howie Mandel, was a hit on NBC from 2006 to 2009, and operated as a sort of anti-quiz show. You didn’t need to know anything at all to play this game, just choose a series of numbered suitcases and hope for the best, with the most advantageous amounts hidden inside. Any number of evolved mammals could have played this game just as adeptly – and it didn’t take much skill to be one of the “briefcase models,” either, though that

2018

Dec

SYFY BRINGS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'NIGHTFLYERS' TO TELEVISION By David Hinckley

If Earth were dying and everyone on Earth knew it, you’d think humans might stop quarreling long enough to try saving it...

2018

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MASS MEDIA By Eric Gould

You’re not the only one thinking that there are now too many scripted shows to follow – and that it seems like most of them are dropping by the hour on Netflix. This SNL commercial satire looks at whether it’s because twitchy executives at that company are greenlighting anything and everything...

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