DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

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Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2012
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Harlan County, Kentucky, is real. But it's also the fictional home to FX's "Justified." The fictional Harlan has its share of sly waitresses and slicked-back lawmen in stiff, shiny boots. It's also where scruffy critters of all ilk lurk around the dimly lit corners of the screen -- smart, shifty criminals who need to be rooted out of the hollows of the Kentucky hills. Or, more correctly, the "hollers"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
19
 
 
The game of musical chairs – or, at least, musical roommates – continues tonight. And tonight’s move may be the most unlikely of all: Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) is talking about settling down, and moving in with someone. And it’s Quinn (Becki Newton), who’s only been around for a short while. Those of us who enjoyed Ugly Betty, though, already have been delighted by Newton for years.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
19
 
 
The Battle Rounds continue tonight, and the action isn’t confined to what’s inside the ring. It’s interesting, so far, how often some of the mentors have given advice that seems to conflict with the established practices of the star judges and team leaders. And, for that matter, how the initial airings of contestants have made some battles really tough ones, and others more like musical slam dunks. Each judge, I suspect, is stacking his or her own deck, selecting songs and duet
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
19
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Maybe this doesn’t rank any higher on the seismic TV scale than, say, learning the identity of Gossip Girl – but maybe it doesn’t rank any lower, either. On tonight’s second-season finale, set as a costume party, the identity of the scheming, hidden-in-the-shadows “A” is finally, maybe even literally, unmasked.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
19
 
 
Perhaps you know him as Michael in the star-crossed HBO series Luck. More probably, you may know him as Dumbledore in the most recent Harry Potter films. But a few of us here at TV WORTH WATCHING will always know him, first and foremost, as The Singing Detective himself – Michael Gambon. However, diehard fans of this series, which includes celebrity visits to give them a chance behind the wheel and around the test track – may know Gambon as a repeat visitor. His first lap around the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
19
 
 
Tonight is stage mother night, and what a piece of guest casting. Bernadette Peters guest stars as the Broadway diva mother of Ivy (Megan Hilty), who has enough problems maintaining the spotlight at the Marilyn: The Musical rehearsals as it is. And does Peters get to sing -- a Sondheim lyric, yet -- as part of tonight's plot? Let’s just say, in this story about mother-daughter show-biz performers, it might be Rose’s turn.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
18
 
 
Mary's back! "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" gets a major cable showcase when it hits Hallmark Channel April 1 with a 10-hour welcome marathon. Here's a clip from the classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode: Mary, who's been chiding her WJM newsroom co-workers for joking about the death of the TV clown, finds herself broken up in an entirely different way at his funeral. - DW
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
18
 
 
Got Hulu Plus? Then you've got access to this month's PaleyFest panels featuring the casts and creators of some of TV's hottest shows. Spend 80 minutes hearing how they put together "Modern Family." See David Boreanaz called on carpet for not knowing the ins-and-outs of "Bones." Get an hour of inside scoop on "Once Upon a Time."
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
18
 
 
Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), who now knows herself only as Mary Margaret, is arrested for murder by Emma (Jennifer Morrison). Mary Margaret is being framed, of course – but who’s Snowing whom?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Mar
18
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: If you have a high-definition, widescreen TV set, consider this required viewing. It’s the latest BBC-Discovery Channel co-production from the makers of Planet Earth, and it’s truly majestic – except for one flaw, which, along with the rest of this visually stunning series, I describe in detail in Bianculli’s Blog HERE. In addition to televising two episodes of this new documentary tonight on its own network, the folks at Discovery are spreading the wealt