On his previous TV show, Totally Biased, W. Kamau Bell seemed straightjacketed by the show’s rigorously divided format – but on this first standup special of his, he roams the stage and his subject matter freely. Watch and see. And laugh.

2016

Apr

NOW ALL THE GUITARS GENTLY WEEP By Jim Davis

TVWW critic David Hinckley reports that the most poignant highlight of this year’s annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony special will be a clip of the late Prince from his own 2004 Hall of Fame induction...

2016

Apr

SOMETIMES JUST ONE SEASON IS BETTER THAN AN ENDLESS ENDPOINT By David Hinckley

For better or worse, NBC’s Game of Silence is looking like the latest TV show where less would have been more...

2016

Apr

MEGYN VS. THE DONALD: A REMATCH WORTHY OF WWE By David Hinckley

When Donald Trump sits down with Megyn Kelly for her May 17 prime-time special on Fox, it will be interesting to see whether he still calls her “sick” and “crazy.” Those are a couple of the many things he’s called her on Twitter over the last few months...

2016

Apr

LIVE FROM THE TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL: SOPHIA LOREN By David Bianculli

This new special, recorded at last year’s TCM Film Festival, has international movie star Sophia Loren interviewed in front of an appreciative, film-savvy audience. This time, though, the interviewer is not TCM host Robert Orborne, but Loren’s own son, Edoardo Ponti. And their very intimate 75-minute conversation is followed by a string of Loren’s films, starting with 2014’s The Human Voice, a film short based on Jean Cocteau’s one-woman play, with Loren as star and

2016

Apr

THE ODD COUPLE By David Bianculli

Just a note: Garry Marshall, who oversaw the migration of Neil Simon’s Broadway and movie versions of The Odd Couple into a superb TV sitcom version starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, guest stars tonight, playing Oscar’s father, Walter. He’s not writing his own lines, so I don’t know if Garry Marshall will be funny tonight – but when he was a regular fixture on the TCA press tour in the 1970s and 1980s, talking about his shows such as Happy Days, Laverne &

2016

Apr

THE EIGHTIES: “VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR” By David Bianculli

Tonight’s documentary installment is about the early 1980s development, and subsequent impact, of MTV. The title alone suggests you’ll be able to see, and hear, at least a portion of the first video ever played on MTV when it launched in 1981: “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by a British band called The Buggles.

2016

Apr

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

Last week, we found out something horrifying about another of the infamous biological experiments being carried out on unwilling patients, including at least one of our favorite clones. And tonight’s episode sees the return of another of those clones: Tatiana Maslany (of course) as Rachel.

2016

Apr

INSIDE AMY SCHUMER By David Bianculli

On this week's episode, Amy Schumer visits Game of Thrones, plays host to guest star Liam Neeson, and appears at a gun show.

2016

Apr

PANDORA'S BOX By David Bianculli

The between-the-wars German cinema salute continues tonight, with TCM presenting another Wednesday roster of rarely televised movies – beginning at 8 p.m. ET with this 1929 sexy silent classic from director G.W. Pabst. Louise Brooks stars as Lulu, the ultimately amoral temptress (pictured here, gorgeously) who leaves a string of disasters, and destroyed men, in her wake.

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