First, the title: The Eagles, in this context, are neither majestic birds nor Philadelphia football players, but the musical group that generated “Hotel California.” And Part 1 is not a hopeful tease for some possible future sequel. Part 1, the documentary that premieres tonight, covers the years from the group’s formation (and before, establishing the individual musical and psychological identities of members Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit) to the grou

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THE CHAMP By David Bianculli

TCM’s Oscar month (and more, since it covers 31 days) continues with a rare prime-time showing of an early award magnet. This sad, still effective drama about an aging boxer and a young kid who idolizes him won Oscars for Wallace Beery, who plays the boxer, and for Frances Marion, who wrote the screenplay for this 1931 film. But check out the kid, too: He’s played by a very young, very charming Jackie Cooper.

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BANSHEE By David Bianculli

Still uneven and even more improbable, this new Cinemax series benefits from its Friday night time slot – there’s so little else on at this hour, for fans of scripted drama, it keeps lingering as another viewing possibility. Last week, the dramatic moments got a little better, though the action sequences remained choppy and a bit overdone. This week, an old foe returns to the town where an escaped convict has taken over as the sheriff, unbeknownst to almost everyone. As I said, impro

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Community fans, pay special attention: Joel McHale is one of tonight’s scheduled guests, in a show certain to include a post-mortem on President Obama’s State of the Union.

2013

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BEYONCE TELLS HER STORY HER WAY IN HBO'S 'LIFE IS BUT A DREAM' By Ed Bark

Life Is But A Dream in reality doesn't give all that much. Still, it's a watchable film for those who just can't get enough of Beyonce...

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THE CLOCK'S ALREADY TICKING ON 'ZERO HOUR' By Ed Bark

Even though ABC remains addicted to far-fetched, string-along serial dramas, Zero Hour pretty much reflects its chances of making it to a second season next fall...

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COMMUNITY By David Bianculli

Poor Community. NBC sat on this season’s shows so long that the episode premiering tonight actually was intended for the last week in October. That’s why, on Valentine’s Day, Community is going with a special Halloween episode – equal parts trick and treat, considering. One highlight: an in-costume road trip to Pierce’s mysterious mansion, where some of the gang discovers his unusually equipped “secret gym.”

2013

Feb

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

On CBS, on this sitcom, there is a Valentine’s Day episode for Valentine’s Day. And while all the male characters are approaching the holiday awkward, no one out-awkwards Sheldon (Jim Parsons), who woos Amy (Mayim Bialik) – but grudgingly.

2013

Feb

ZERO HOUR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: It’s out of respect for Anthony Edwards’ prior work that I note the arrival of this new series. Otherwise, it’s a messy, convoluted, uninvolving attempt to mount a TV version of The Da Vinci Code, with a plot that includes clocks with clues, Nazis with clones, FBI agents with curves, and demon babies with colic. Okay, I made up that last part – but only the part about the colic. For Ed Bark’s very negative full-length review, see Uncle Barky’s

2013

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GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli

Still ranked as the highest-rated theatrical movie ever to be broadcast on television, Gone with the Wind gets a prime-time showing tonight, but in a different media landscape. NBC’s 1976 two-part telecast of this 1939 Civil War epic, starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, still ranks at the bottom of TV’s all-time Top 10 – but that was in the last year before home video recorders were introduced, via the Sony Betamax, and before HBO caught on as a national cable outle

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