Larry David is about to star in his new Broadway play about – what else – family dysfunction. David, notoriously cryptic and evasive about himself, was interviewed for 60 Minutes...

2015

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THE BY-THE-BOOK ABCS OF 'CSI,' WITH OSCAR-WINNER PATRICIA ARQUETTE TAKING THE FOURTH By Ed Bark

There’s no need to feel unduly sorry for Patricia Arquette. Yes, she’s the newly crowned Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner for Boyhood. And now, just when all these new doors are opening, she’s tied to a previous commitment to another formulaic CBS crime series. It’s a nice “problem” to have, though...

2015

Mar

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

I’m really enjoying this season of The Voice – partly because all four judges this year have found a way to interact playfully, and partly because the talent is markedly above this show’s norm. The singer they saved until last in the most recent installment, India Carney, knocked it out of the park with her rendition of Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind,” leaving all four judges desperate to sign her. Christina Aguilera won that battle, because she was one

2015

Mar

THE ARTIST By David Bianculli

The Artist, the Best Picture Oscar winner in 2012, was the first silent film to win that award since Wings won it in the first Best Picture Oscar ever handed out, in 1927. Tonight in prime time, TCM repeats it. The Artist, not Wings.

2015

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MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: After burrowing away for a period of dormancy so ABC could show Marvel’s Agent Carter, the network is picking up with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., back where it left off – and poised to introduce a group of new characters familiar from the old Sixties era of Marvel Comics. To reveal more would be… Inhuman.

2015

Mar

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

This series, the way it’s chugging on all cylinders in its final season, might as well be retitled Satisfied – because that’s how I feel as and after I watch it. Great acting, great writing, and a story that I’m not even trying to predict and work out in advance. Tonight, though, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) gets to spend some time with the new female in his life: his baby daughter.

2015

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THE KING'S SPEECH By David Bianculli

After showing the 2012 Best Picture Oscar winner in prime time, by presenting The Artist, TCM makes it a golden-statue double feature by following that with the winner from 2011: The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as (Royal Spoiler Alert) King George VI.

2015

Mar

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The new seasons of American Idol and of this show both have started off with an impressive array of talent. On this show, though, the most fun of all is to be had right now, as the blind auditions continue – and when the judges, after spinning around in their chairs to show support for the formerly unseen singers, have to compete with one another to persuade those singers to join their team. This year, Pharrell is cleaning up, Adam Levine is striking out, Blake Shelton is loving Levine&rsq

2015

Mar

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

For the second time in this series, young Bruce Wayne found himself kneeling over the bleeding body of a loved one. Last time, in the premiere, it was his parents. This time, last week, it was his beloved guardian Alfred, who had been stabbed in the chest by a loved one of his own. Alfred survives, of course – anyone who’s ever read a Batman comic or seen a movie or TV show based on one knows that – but tonight, what’s even more interesting is the fate of another tough su

2015

Mar

EL REY NETWORK PRESENTS: THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR By David Bianculli

Film director Robert Rodriguez, this network’s founder and chairman, uses his own expertise, and his ability to approve and schedule any TV show he wants, to sit down occasionally for this series of specials, interviewing fellow directors whose work he admires. As a program executive, it’s a good move. As an interviewer, it’s another one. These shows are like TV equivalents of Hitchcock/Truffaut, that landmark book in which critic and filmmaker Francois Truffaut interviewed Alf

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