SERIES FINALE: Obviously, this is the TV show to watch tonight. And it might even be considered the end of an era. Is there another current TV sitcom so deserving of a finale? Aside from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, that is, which started 20 years ago and has done brilliant work for 10 seasons – but the whole tenor of Curb would tend to run in the opposite direction from such sentiment. Yet here, on Modern Family, it’s not only appropriate

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WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? By David Bianculli

SERIES REVIVAL: In 1999, Regis Philbin hosted an American version of the British quiz-show hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and ended up presiding over an instant and mammoth U.S. hit so huge, it propelled ABC to first place – and only lost steam because the network greedily overexposed it by programming it at every opportunity, over up to four nights weekly. But tonight, Millionaire returns for a limited 10-show run – with celebrity contestants playing for thei

2020

Apr

1996: BONNIE HUNT'S CBS SITCOM ENDS ITS RUN By TV WW

This day in 1996 marked the end of Bonnie, the second-chance CBS sitcom starring Second City veteran Bonnie Hunt...

2020

Apr

KEN BURNS PRESENTS "THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY" By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 1 of 2. This two-part, four-hour documentary has Ken Burns as its primary executive producer, and is based on the book by physician and New Yorker writer Siddhartha Mukherjee. The other name that stands out, to me, is that of its top-listed TV writer, Geoffrey C. Ward, who has been a major contributor to most of Burns’ best nonfiction miniseries, The Civil War included. (By the way? Want to feel old? This fall, PBS’s The C

2020

Apr

SCHITT'S CREEK By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: The finale of this engagingly weird comedy is shown tonight not only on Pop TV, which has ended up being its too-obscure TV home base, but also is simulcast on Comedy Central. See it – and then go back and revel in the rest of the series, based on the comic premise that a wealthy family falls on super-hard times, then remembers that one family member once gifted another with the purchase of a small town with an absurd name: Schitt’s Creek. They end up relocating there,

2020

Apr

TWO SHOWS END THIS WEEK BUT NOT BEFORE LEAVING THEIR MARKS By Mike Hughes

Two long-running comedies say farewell this week. One is much loved, one much-liked. Both will be greatly missed. And together, they show how life (especially TV life) has changed in a decade or so...

2020

Apr

1992: PBS INTRODUCES 'BARNEY & FRIENDS' By TV WW

On this day in 1992, PBS introduced Barney & Friends...

2020

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MORE SUSPENSE AND MYSTERY FROM ACORN WITH 'DEADWATER FELL' By David Hinckley

If David Tennant moves into your town, here's a tip: Move out immediately. Tennant is a wonderful actor, but every time he shows up these days, it seems that a grisly fate befalls some local innocent...

2020

Apr

QUIBI LAUNCHES By David Bianculli

STREAMING SERVICE PREMIERE: History will record, eventually, whether this new streaming service concept was unfortunate enough to be the right idea at the exact wrong time. The idea behind Quibi, which launches today, is to offer video entertainment in easily digested bite-sized chunks, with each video running 10 minutes or less. Movie-length dramas and comedies are rolled out like old Saturday matinee serials, one short chapter at a time. Some shows are tiny pieces of entertainment, like a sort

2020

Apr

DEADWATER FELL By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: In the latest U.K. import to star David Tennant and feature a picturesque remote town, Deadwater Fell is an investigative drama with a twist. Before the first episode is over, Tennant’s character suffers a tragedy, when his family is consumed by a fire that engulfs their home. But the drama in Deadwater Fell isn’t what happened to them – but why. And, most crucially, by whom. And as with all these remote rural British drama, the truth, a

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