Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 classic, starring Farley Granger in a suspense story crafted from a crafty hypothetical: What if you and someone you’d only just met agreed to kill an enemy of the other? Co-stars include Leo G. Carroll and Marion Lorne, who were featured subsequently in lighter TV fare: Topper and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for him, Bewitched for her.

2013

Apr

SMASH By David Bianculli

Just before being shuffled off to Saturday night, Smash presents one more first-run Tuesday episode, and this one involves the visiting parents of some of the characters – including Ivy (Megan Hilty), whose mom, Leigh, makes a return appearance as a familiar musical-comedy stage star. She’s played by one, too: Bernadette Peters returns as Leigh. And this time with a bombshell: she may be joining the cast of Bombshell.

2013

Apr

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This has been such a good season for Justified, I hate to see it end. But it ends tonight, picking up the pieces of last week’s successful capture of decades-long fugitive Drew Thompson. What’s left for this show to do with this plot? A lot. The Detroit mob, thwarted by the clever moves of Raylan (Timothy Olyphant), decide to take revenge, and/or get to Drew, by going after Winona (Natalie Zea, taking a break from The Following to return here).

2013

Apr

COOL HAND LUKE By David Bianculli

I’m as tempted to say this every time this 1967 Paul Newman movie is televised as I am to watch it, as one of my “spider-web movies”: What we have here, as movies go, is a failure of absolutely nothing. This prison-gang movie is perfect.

2013

Apr

LATE-NIGHT DUET By Bill Brioux

Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno cleverly addressed the recent rumors that the Late Night host would soon be replacing the Tonight Show host with a Broadway-style duet...

2013

Apr

IS THE TITLE OF ABC'S NEW SITCOM LONGER THAN THE SHOW'S FUTURE? By Ed Bark

ABC is tempting fate, and likely will end up on the losing end again with How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)...

2013

Apr

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 8 opener of The Real Housewives of Orange County, the grandmother of this particular strain of Housewives reality shows – and yet I can honestly say I’m just as enthusiastic about this series now as I was when it began. And for tonight’s season opener, Bravo offers us glimpses of Tamra Barney’s bachelorette party. No longer does the phrase “Barney and friends” mean, on TV, we’re about to see a purple dinosaur. Just wat

2013

Apr

WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW By David Bianculli

Three hours of Monday Night Raw in prime time? Somehow, that doesn’t seem like enough. The Rock is back as a guest fighter, promoting his upcoming pay-per-view WrestleMania bout against John Cena. How 'bout that! And if you think tonight’s three-hour installment serves only as a 180-minute commercial for a subscription TV event, well then, you’re just not getting in the WWE spirit. This series isn’t hitting rock bottom. It’s a hit with the Rock, bottom line.

2013

Apr

L.A. SHRINKS By David Bianculli

I missed this new Bravo series when it premiered last month, because I presumed it was a sober documentary about the 2010 census, suggesting that Los Angeles was losing population compared to a decade ago. But I was wrong. L.A. Shrinks turns out to be new Bravo reality show, following the private practices, and private lives, of three “high-end” therapists (including Venus Nicolino, pictured) treating patients in the City of Angels. Wow! Who wouldn’t want to see a show about th

2013

Apr

HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO By David Bianculli

TLC presents two episodes of this “moppet beauty pageant contestant” reality-show series tonight in prime time. They aren’t new episodes – but does anyone tune in to Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to learn anything new? Or learn anything, period? But this show is worth championing, I feel, because of its subtle insights. Like, for example, how it helps, on occasion, to superimpose even English-speaking, U.S.-born natives with subtitles.

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