This is the one where Alan Cumming tests his leading man cred as an openly gay, recently married former CIA operative turned novelist turned college professor turned crime solver...

2018

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KEEPING ALAN CUMMING ON CBS WITH 'INSTINCT' By David Hinckley

If you watched The Good Wife and thought Alan Cumming’s Eli character was so much fun he deserved a show of his own, it seems CBS agreed...

2018

Mar

2018 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Four networks — CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV — cover today’s action. And there’s lots of Cinderella second-round action, with double-digit seeds still alive. On CBS at noon ET, East No. 2 Purdue faces No. 10 Butler — and after that game on the same network, Midwest No. 11 Syracuse faces No. 3 Michigan State. Other games played this afternoon by double-digit second-rounders include South No. 16 University of Maryland Baltimore City vs. No. 9 Kansas State, on truTV,

2018

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60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

Tonight’s not the installment with the Stormy Daniels interview — that’s tentatively coming next Sunday, pending legal challenges and other complications. But tonight 60 Minutes visits with some of the Florida students who have kept the gun-control issue alive since last month’s shooting at their high school. And since last week’s 60 Minutes presented such a newsworthy interview with Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration’s Secretary of Education, talking to th

2018

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INSTINCT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: After Cabaret on Broadway and The Good Wife on CBS, it would seem Alan Cumming could do no wrong. And tonight, he tests that theory by starring in a new, character-driven police series on CBS. For full reviews, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

2018

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COUNTERPART By David Bianculli

Last week, J.K. Simmons ended that episode of Counterpart with a separated-by-glass verbal showdown between his two lookalike personae — one from each world — and showed how clearly he was capable of delineating each character. (It was the best split-screen solo acting since Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black.) There are only two episodes left this season, and the two worlds, and the characters traveling between them and killing people, have never been closer.

2018

Mar

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Once again, this series is both prolonging, and promising an end to, the long-running conflict between Rick and Negan. In tonight’s episode, Negan employs a new weapon in his escalated warfare against the Hilltop and elsewhere: using walker guts as a sort of gooey germ warfare.

2018

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HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode showed Carrie (Claire Danes) and her team conducting a thrown-together sting, targeting a woman ensnared in a money trail leading to the chemically induced death, by mysterious chem-warfare agent, of a general in custody for attempted treason. (Let’s set aside, for the moment, just how spookily prescient that chemical killing has proven.) What was so good about that episode was how the mission kept shifting as things kept going wrong — and how, at the end, C

2018

Mar

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Admit it. After a week like the one we’ve had — and especially some now-former members of the Trump administration — don’t we want John Oliver on that border wall, commenting on it all? Don’t we need him on that wall?

2018

Mar

THE WINS AND LOSSES IN LIFE ON 'STRIKING OUT' By David Hinckley

Striking Out, an imported Irish legal drama, focuses on the small stuff...

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