Paul Newman has been showcased in many, many excellent movies as Star of the Month on TCM in May – but as we get near the end of the month, and the end of Newman’s film resume, some of his very best performances and films have been saved for last. Exhibit A: This 1982 courtroom drama, written by David Mamet, in which Newman plays an alcoholic attorney who summons the drive and self-respect to tackle one more tough legal case, and give it the energy and combativeness it requires. Co-s

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May

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Tonight is the Season 1 finale for Shadows, but never fear. Never fear because a) this is a comedy series about vampires, so it isn’t scary, and b) FX already has renewed Shadows for a second season. Tonight’s season finale is called “Ancestry,” and has Nandor tracking down one of his still-living descendants.

2019

May

ARCHER: 1999 By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This animated comedy premiered a decade ago, and has reinvented itself wildly over the years. In fact, for three seasons now, its titular hero has been in a coma, lingering near death, while his subconscious spins through a series of odd fantasies recasting his friends and co-workers in alternative roles in a string of unpredictable misadventures in exotic settings. This season, the setting is outer space, and Archer’s fertile imagination takes him and his “crew&rdqu

2019

May

ONE MORE TIME: SEEING DEAD PEOPLE IN NBC'S 'THE INBETWEEN' By Ed Bark

There’s nothing new to look at here unless you’re among those who haven’t yet seen a TV series about a haunted woman who sees the dead and then aids or afflicts the living...

2019

May

ON NBC'S 'INBETWEEN,' SHE SEES DEAD PEOPLE – HAVEN'T WE SEEN THIS BEFORE? By David Hinckley

Turns out zombies aren’t the only people who can be dead but not quite gone...

2019

May

THE STORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN ON 'LIGHT FALLS' By David Hinckley

If you’re looking for a breezy bit of TV candy to kick off the summer, PBS stands ready to serve...

2019

May

THE LION KING By David Bianculli

This animated Disney musical came out in 1994, making this its silver anniversary – 25 years since we first heard “Hakuna Matata,” sung by Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella. Other voices in this well-written, nicely performed Disney movie include Matthew Broderick as Simba, Jeremy Irons as Scar, and James Earl Jones as Mufasa. And, of course, the music is by Elton John, and the lyrics by Tim Rice – the same Tim Rice who teamed with Andrew Lloyd Webber for Jesus Christ Superst

2019

May

RUNNING WITH BETO By David Bianculli

This new documentary takes to the campaign trail with Beto O’Rourke – but it’s not the trail you might expect. Instead of covering his current run hoping to capture the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Running with Beto takes place during the 2018 midterms, when the young congressperson came within a few hundred thousand votes of unseating Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate race in Texas. Why focus on that race now, when O’Rourke&rsq

2019

May

SONGLAND By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new music competition series could be an instant hit, a slow roll, or an equally instant flop. Like American Idol and The Voice, it has aspiring talents performing in front of a panel of attention-stealing judges. The slight twist, this time around, is that the contestants are songwriters, not merely singers – so the songs they sing are their own, pitched to the week’s guest artist. For the premiere, that guest artist is John Legend, fresh (or relatively fresh)

2019

May

FOSSE/VERDON By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: This is the eighth and final episode of Fosse/Verdon, the FX miniseries that covers much of the same territory, using many of the same cinematic tricks, as choreographer-director Bob Fosse’s stunningly original movie pseudo-autobiography, All That Jazz. And quite fittingly, and perhaps unavoidably, this finale is all about Fosse making the movie All That Jazz, a movie touching on his complicated long-time relationship with Gwen Verdon. Sam Rockwell plays Fosse, and Miche

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