Of the eight games played yesterday in the first full day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, six of the eight teams to advance were the higher-ranked seeds, but that left room for two early-round upsets in the South bracket: No. 11 seed Dayton beat No. 6 seed Ohio State, and No. 9 seed Pittsburgh dominated No. 8 seed Colorado. Today’s eight games are likely to provide another upset or two, or more. The action begins at 12:15 p.m. ET on CBS, when Duke (seeded No. 3 in the Midwes

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WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This pleasant improv showcase returns for a new CW season, once again with Aisha Tyler as host and the usual players – Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles – around for a new series of sketches, prop play and guest stars. On tonight’s season-opening double-header, those guests include Tara Lipinski and, from Key & Peele, Keegan-Michael Key.

2014

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include Shane Smith, correspondent and host of Vice, which follows Maher’s show, and has Maher as one of its executive producers. Also on the guest list is another pioneering documentarian: Errol Morris.

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Mar

BLONDIE'S NEW YORK By David Bianculli

The New York punk band Blondie, with Deborah Harry as lead singer, was quite a force in the late Seventies. Their fourth album, 1979’s Eat to the Beat, was the first album ever to be simultaneously released as a track-by-track video LP – only a few years after the first consumer VCRs were released in the U.S., and two years before the launch of MTV. But before Eat to the Beat, there was Parallel Lines, the 1978 album that included “One Way or Another” and “Heart of

2014

Mar

THE IMPOSSIBLE By David Bianculli

This 2012 fact-based movie stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as parents with those kids, whose family vacation is torn asunder by the tsunami that devastated Thailand, and other lands bordering that part of the Indian Ocean, in 2004.

2014

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2014 NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The NCAA tournament kicks off in earnest today – and things will never be busier, or more complicated, than they are today and tomorrow. You have to move as much, and as quickly, as a point guard to catch all the action, but here goes a first-day bracket rundown: The action begins art noon ET on CBS, when Ohio State (seeded #6 in the South) faces Dayton (#11). At 12:30 p.m. ET on TruTV, Wisconsin (#2 in the West) faces American (#15). At 1:30 p.m. ET on TBS, Colorado (#8 in the South) face

2014

Mar

COMMUNITY By David Bianculli

Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and David Cross from Arrested Development as father and son? What fun – and it’s all here, on Community.

2014

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THE HINDENBURG By David Bianculli

This 1975 movie is a total disaster. Well, it’s about a total disaster, anyway: the German zeppelin that, on its maiden transatlantic voyage in 1937, burst into flames while docking in New Jersey. The script by Richard Levinson and William Link, creators of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, turns the airborne trip into a mystery, with a subplot about sabotage and terrorism that, while never proven in real life, certainly makes this film seem timely – especially given what’s happen

2014

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PARENTHOOD By David Bianculli

Television usually doesn’t attempt to wrest much drama out of the simple sale of a house. But when that house is the Braverman family home, and decades of memories are put on the block, there’s bound to be a lot of emotion – especially since the patriarch of the family is agreeing to the sale only because he doesn’t want to lose his wife, who is adamant about wanting to relocate.

2014

Mar

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

Can’t wait for this one: Tonight, Malcolm and Kris hold a tailgating party – for public radio’s Prairie Home Companion. I hope they brought plenty of Powdermilk biscuits.

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