The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook With Sam Neill, a six-part series revisiting James Cook’s historic exploratory voyage to the South Seas in the late 18^th century, doesn’t play out exactly as the Cook expedition used to be taught in school...

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

This series is another example of how TV series actually can become reinvigorated once they announce their own impending conclusions. With the end in sight, Gotham can stop the teasing, and actually deliver on its premise and promise: presenting a much more involved take on the origin stories of the heroes and villains in the Batman universe. With only so many episodes left until Gotham is over, the good and bad guys – and good and bad girls – are beginning to approach their more fam

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'WEIRD CITY' BRINGS BIG NAMES TO YOUTUBE PREMIUM By David Hinckley

Weird City lives up to its name. It’s set in a city and it’s weird. The half-hour anthology series, premiering Wednesday on the streaming service YouTube Premium, sets a series of stories in the future city of Weird...

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WEIRD CITY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: When Jordan Peele was one of the writers and co-stars of Comedy Central’s brilliantly funny sketch series Key & Peele, one of the other writers was Charlie Sanders. Now Peele and Sanders have reteamed for this new, six-episode anthology series, which is like a Black Mirror Lite – whimsical rather than tragic, but still set in a futuristic world whose ideas intersect and overlap. In Weird City, there’s a physical dividing line between the Haves and the Have-

2019

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THE WORLD'S BEST By David Bianculli

This is episode three of this new midseason global competition series – and so far, I’m still watching. The judges haven’t really impressed me as much as the contestants, with their own contributions and observations and reactions – but host James Corden already has.

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA By David Bianculli

Epic films don’t get much more epic than this. David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece of visual artistry stars Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the British officer who led Arab tribes against the Turks in WWI. A century or so later, and it’s worth reflecting on the different dynamics, and shifting borders and country names, since then. And the better your home TV is, the more magnificent this movie will look.

2019

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THE MASKED SINGER By David Bianculli

Here’s another competition series that’s popped up and attracted attention at midseason. And recently, the rules change a bit: Instead of individual competitions to keep from being unmasked, now it’s a group challenge. And last week, the most recently unmasked singer was the Raven… who turned out to be Ricki Lake.

2019

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THE DICTATOR'S PLAYBOOK: "IDI AMIN" By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: This documentary series already has looked at five dictators, giving their biographies and atrocities one hour each: Kim Il Sung, Saddam Hussein, Benito Mussolini, Manuel Noriega, and Francisco Franco. Tonight, the nonfiction series concludes with a look at Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. But The Dictator’s Playbook cries out for a season two, if only to give due credit – actually, due blame – to Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot, just to drop a few names. Check local listings

2019

Feb

'BOOMERANG' IS WORTH CATCHING By David Hinckley

Boomerang has come back. Twenty-seven years after the Eddie Murphy/Halle Berry rom-com Boomerang cleaned up in theaters, it has returned, more or less, as a TV show...

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