I’m fairly sure Maher plans to do another at-home edition from his back yard tonight. Not live, but close enough. But we’ll see: the byword for everything right now is “Adapt.”

2020

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DELIVERANCE By David Bianculli

Here’s the other TCM Classic Film Festival offering I know I’ll be sucked into watching again tonight: 1972’s poetic, exciting, disturbingly unpredictable story of four suburban men who embark upon one last nature-loving canoe excursion down a Southern river that’s just about to be dammed. And the way things unfold down the river, it’s a voyage of the dammed in more ways than one. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox star – and, like director J

2020

Apr

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Again, I’m not sure if listings and network websites are absolutely trustworthy these days. But if BBC America is on the level, Graham Norton returns for a new season tonight. Like his U.S. counterparts, the U.K. talk show host is practicing TV social distancing: no audience, and with visits via remote video links by such guests as Patrick Stewart, Ricky Gervais and Westworld star Thandie Newton. That may change the dynamics of his program, since Norton encourages guests to appea

2020

Apr

THE GOOD FIGHT By David Bianculli

In last week’s Season 4 premiere, Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart had a Wizard of Oz experience of sorts, in which she imagined herself as living in a very, very different world. It was a world in which Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, had ascended to the White House in 2016 – and series creators Robert and Michelle King had great fun playing with, and against, the expectations of that alternate-universe premise. But at the very end of the episode, Diane awoke f

2020

Apr

DEVS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Devs has been so disturbing, in a good way, that it has specialized in pulling the rug from under the viewer and defying expectations. Characters you thought would be central turn up dead, and stay that way. Plots you think are leading in a certain direction suddenly pivot, and don’t stay that way. In recent episodes, the development team at Devs, working with and against their wealthy and somewhat unhinged project leader, have cracked a

2020

Apr

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS By David Bianculli

Syfy is one of several cable networks reacting to the pandemic, and its sudden increase in TV viewers isolated at home for lengthy periods, by dusting off a page from the old cable TV playbook. Back in the old days, or the semi-old ones, some cable networks would pad out their 24-hour schedules by running marathons of TV reruns of a chosen series; some still do. And in direct response to current conditions, Syfy has unearthed and scheduled complete-series showings, sprinkled throughout its sched

2020

Apr

TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL HOME EDITION By David Bianculli

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the in-person part of this year’s scheduled TCM Classic Film Festival has been cancelled. But the show, and the movies, must go on, so strap in for several days of some absolutely fabulous filmmaking and salutes to movies, pulling from both the TCM archives and from telecasts of past Classic Film Festival events. Kicking things off tonight in prime time are two movies embracing all that and more. At 8 p.m. ET, TCM presents 1954’s A Star Is Bo

2020

Apr

1978: NBC PRESENTS THE MINISERIES 'HOLOCAUST' By TV WW

On this day in 1978, NBC presented the first part of its four-day miniseries, Holocaust...

2020

Apr

'IN THE DARK' RETURNS FOR SEASON 2 By David Hinckley

One of several things the CW network does well is to stick with shows that don't have flashy ratings. That describes In The Dark, which returns...its second season. Actually, it's already been renewed for a third season, too...

2020

Apr

INNER WORLDS OF ‘TALES FROM THE LOOP’ MIGHT BE THE PRESCRIPTION DURING MEDITATIVE TIMES By Eric Gould

What Tales From the Loop is not, is standard sci-fi fare with actors in elaborate rubber prosthetics. That does not, however, disqualify it as compelling science fiction...

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