SEASON PREMIERE: As this Kiefer Sutherland series begins Season 2, the setting changes from the East Coast to the West, and former recurring guest star Maria Bello, playing the mother of another child with special abilities, continues to hang around with Sutherland’s Martin and his son, Jake, played by David Mazouz. This series has gotten more complex, with more subplots and antagonists, but that may not be enough to solidify its direction – or its audience. But if you stayed with th

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SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED By David Bianculli

Tonight’s final two programs in this thoughtful series which has done a solid job examining some of William Shakespeare’s works, are the best of the bunch. First is former Doctor Who star David Tennant, who himself tackled the title role of Hamlet a few years ago, acting as the guide to Shakespeare’s most famous play of all. Two moments really stand out. One is when Tennant is given a look at the so-called “Bad Quarto,” the first surviving copy of Hamlet, and deligh

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ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli

NEW TIME SLOT: Beginning tonight, Rock Center moves to Fridays – the unofficial graveyard for most series the networks no longer support, though this series may well find a home here. It’s certainly a good enough prime-time newsmagazine to deserve another chance. On NBC, though, being a show of quality seems to count against, not for, your chances for survival. Among tonight’s scheduled reports: Harry Smith visits the Game Show Network to chat with GSN’s Jeff Foxworthy, t

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s show is as close as Maher gets to an all-star lineup. Julian Assange (pictured) is one of Maher’s guests tonight – and another is Tina Brown. You don’t need more than that to have a very vocal hour, but there’s also Martin Bashir, and more.

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AN ANIMATED LOOK AT 'THE WALKING DEAD' DEBUT By

Here’s an animated reminder of The Walking Dead's comic book origin, the Robert Kirkman comic book monsterpiece that inspired TV’s zombie apocalypse...

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COMMUNITY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After a long wait on the bench, Community finally trots out on the field to begin Season 4 on NBC. Its opening parody, by now, may seem a little dated, but that’s the network’s fault for sitting on these episodes so long. It’s a twist on The Hunger Games – here called “The Hunger Deans,” a physical competition in which the usual gang has to compete with others for seats in an accidentally overbooked class.

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is titled “The Spoiler Alert Segmentation” – so I’m not about to offer anything that would qualify as deserving a Spoiler Alert. I will, say, however, that Sheldon and Leonard have a bigger fight than usual, and it’s one that may have an impact upon their formerly iron-clad cohabitation agreement.

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FAHRENHEIT 9/11 By David Bianculli

Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary on the presidency of George W. Bush, up to that point, is repeated tonight – and though it’s now more historical than timely, that doesn’t make it any less effective as a work of nonfiction.

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ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS By David Bianculli

Long before Showtime presented The Tudors – in fact, way back in 1969 – Richard Burton starred as King Henry VIII in this film version of the Maxwell Anderson play. Genevieve Bujold co-stars in the title role, as Anne Boleyn. Spoiler Alert: Anne’s Days, as the title infers, are indeed numbered.

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ARCHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode title is “Midnight Ron,” a particularly appropriate play on words. In structure, it’s a parody of Midnight Run, the 1988 film comedy in which Robert de Niro and Charles Grodin played a mismatched pair – one a cop, the other a bail-jumping accountant – trying to elude a bunch of bad guys. Only in this animated version, it’s Archer the secret agent who’s paired with a mismatched companion while on the run from gangsters – and

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