It's time for a mid-course correction. When the season started, I picked NBC's Perfect Harmony as the best new situation comedy...but it's no match for my new No. 1 – CBS' Bob (Hearts) Abishola…

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Don’t miss this. The guest host, for this final fresh SNL of 2019, is Eddie Murphy, who used to be a series repertory company member from 1980-84. Later that same year, after he left to do movies after almost singlehandedly saving the Saturday Night Live franchise, he returned, victoriously, as guest host. Once. In December 1984. And that’s it. Murphy has stayed away from the show ever since, except for showing up for the program’s 40th anniversary prim

2019

Dec

'THE WITCHER' FITS THE GRIM FANTASY MOLD By David Hinckley

Someday someone is going to explain to me why fantasy kingdoms always seem to be located in cold, dark, bleak medieval woodlands teeming with monsters...

2019

Dec

I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

The colorized I Love Lucy episodes have become a CBS holiday tradition – along with the similarly multihued episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which this year, sadly, are not part of the mix. But this year, we get, as usual, two Lucy episodes: the now annually repeated “The Christmas Episode” from 1956, as well as a newly colorized treat. It’s another I Love Lucy from 1956, this one called “Paris at Last,” which has Luc

2019

Dec

CELEBRATING MARVEL'S STAN LEE By David Bianculli

ABC, owned by Disney, has many reasons to celebrate Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee, whose movie and TV offshoots are, similarly, now owned by Disney. But here’s a prime-time special looking at the cultural impact of the man and his comics empire – and if you’re old enough to remember when his monthly Marvel Comics columns bestowed occasional No-Prizes, consider yourself a 21st-century recipient.

2019

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THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include a typically, deliriously different gaggle of celebrities: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Hudson, Hugh Grant, and Dame Judi Dench.

2019

Dec

EBENEZER'S REDEMPTION IS A LONG, LONG TIME COMING IN FX'S ILL-CONCEIVED 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' By Ed Bark

Literature's most awakened central character finds himself amid a darkly "woke" re-imagining of his misdeeds in TV's latest adaptation of A Christmas Carol...

2019

Dec

A VERSION OF 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' THAT IS DARK AND GRITTY WITH A VILE BUT COMPELLING SCROOGE IN GUY PEARCE By David Hinckley

FX's new production of A Christmas Carol mines all the darkness with which author Charles Dickens infused the original and then adds more of its own...

2019

Dec

DEMOCRTATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE By David Bianculli

The day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump, some of the Democratic hopefuls in the 2020 presidential race take the stage for the latest televised debate. But not all of them, because the rules for inclusion, mandated by the Democratic National Committee, have changed for this latest event, televised live by both PBS and CNN. Only seven candidates have qualified to appear on tonight’s debate, which is less than half of the remaining field.

2019

Dec

A CHRISTMAS CAROL By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: There are plenty of noteworthy TV adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, from the straightforward telemovie version starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge to the animated musical Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. (And there’s also what may be the most imaginative take of all: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge starts out generous and friendly, but is so annoyed by his ghostly visitations that he wakes

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