SERIES PREMIERE: At 8 p.m. ET, Oprah Winfrey repeats her recent edition of Oprah’s Next Chapter, with guest Tyler Perry, in which she asks the prolific and popular film and TV hyphenate what he plans to do next. Then, an hour later, Winfrey presents what he plans to do next: produce his own new TV drama series, made for Winfrey’s OWN network. Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots is a new prime-time soap, and it’s the first scripted series made for and presented by OW

2013

May

BROOKLYN DA By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new six-part series takes the basic approach of ABC’s medical 24/7 documentary series and applies it to local politics. Politics, by definition, is much more controversial, so this series arrives on CBS already surrounded by a legal challenge brought by a rival candidate for the office of Brooklyn district attorney, who sought to block the telecast of this series. But the way things work, that should just add to the viewership, not subtract from it.

2013

May

BULLITT By David Bianculli

Steve McQueen stars in this 1968 detective movie set in San Francisco, where the hills are alive with the sound of screeching. Screeching tires, specifically, as McQueen takes the wheel for one of the most famous car chase sequences in the history of cinema. And sometimes, there’s no screeching at all, because all four tires of McQueen’s green Mustang are off the ground.

2013

May

CHANGE OF HABIT By David Bianculli

Any time the conversation turns to truly bizarre movie teamings (then again, maybe you have less geeky friends than I do, and your conversations never turn there), this 1969 movie is one of the trump cards to remember. It’s the answer to the question, “What film co-starred Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore?” (Bonus question: “And had Mary Tyler Moore playing a nun?”) Hard as all that is to believe, try this: Elvis played a doctor. And the movie was made only one ye

2013

May

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN By David Bianculli

One of the best Memorial Day offerings possible, if you’re looking for a war movie. Since this 1998 Steven Spielberg is on HBO2, it’ll be shown unedited, and uninterrupted, which is key. And while many performances in this harrowing WWII drama are terrific, including that of Tom Hanks, the one to watch today is the title character. He’s played by Matt Damon, who can also be seen on the HBO networks this weekend co-starring as the gay lover of Michael; Douglas’ Liberace on

2013

May

RING OF FIRE By David Bianculli

After the excellent job done by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Johnny Cash and Jude Carter in the 2005 biopic Walk the Line, I’m not sure why we need another study of June Carter. And while few people, I imagine, are waiting to see Matt Ross as the Man in Black, the sound, as well as the sight, of singer Jewel as June should be worth the tune-in. But if someone tries to Cash in and make another biography of this couple, what titles and theme songs are left? A Boy Named Sue?

2013

May

PIRANHACONDA By David Bianculli

Want a truly brainless diversion for the holiday? This Syfy movie slipped by me when it premiered last year, starring Michael Madsen, the standout sadist of Reservoir Dogs, as the guy who has to go up against a giant snake with killer teeth – capable of, well, look at the photo. But you have to give props, if not propellers, to a snake that can down a helicopter in midflight. Similarly, you have to salute the folks at Syfy, for recognizing the idiotic purity of combining the names of two k

2013

May

INDEPENDENT LENS: “DETROPIA” By David Bianculli

This may sound like a Syfy movie, but this new Independent Lens documentary, Detropia, actually tries to capture the city of a Detroit at a particular moment in time – a moment when the beleaguered city may or may not be about to experience a resurgence. It’s by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the team that made Jesus Camp. Check local listings.

2013

May

NETFLIX’S ‘ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’ REVIVAL: BINGING ON TV PERFECTLY MADE FOR BINGE VIEWING By David Bianculli

I’ve just completed a 15-episode Arrested Development binge on its return opening day on Netflix — and wow, was it worth it. It’s as hilarious as it is ingenious…

2013

May

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: Like locusts, Arrested Development showed up for a while, made a lot of noise, then went into invisible hibernation. That was seven years ago, when the Fox comedy series from 2003-06, which won the Best Comedy Emmy one of those years, was canceled way too prematurely. Now, almost incredibly, it lives again, as a 15-part sequel featuring the original cast members in a tag-team structure. The insanity, as before, is overseen by series creator Mitch Hurwitz, who brings his Bluth fami

Posts 21-30 of 197

2 3 4 5 6

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption