On Showtime, this 2004 comedy film will be presented without edits, and without looped-over “cleaner” dialogue, so Tina Fey’s story about nasty high school cliques will be presented with all its sharp edges intact. That’s a good thing – and so is Lindsay Lohan’s central performance, her last film role before starting to go off the rails a bit, or a lot, in her private life.

2013

May

INSIDE DAISY CLOVER By David Bianculli

Natalie Wood already had clocked several seminal film roles, including the female leads in Rebel without a Cause and West Side Story, before playing a future movie star in this 1966 drama, opposite Robert Redford. But Redford’s real star-making role, in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, was, for him, just around the corner.

2013

May

NBA PLAYOFFS: MIAMI HEAT VS. INDIANA PACERS By David Bianculli

Wednesday’s Game 1 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference final was, in a word, ridiculous. (Well, for clarity, make it two words: Ridiculously dramatic.) The Indiana Pacers came back at the last minute to force an overtime period – then, after the last minute, in literally the last two seconds of overtime, the Miami Heat’s LeBron James bolted down the lane to shoot a soft layup and steal the win, 103-102. Tonight is Game 2 – and while the Heat will be pumped, it&rsq

2013

May

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: “AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT: GO BACK HOME” By David Bianculli

Audra McDonald has a new album out, called Go Back Home – and to promote it, she goes home, or at least to Lincoln Center (where she usually hosts Live from Lincoln Center) and Avery Fisher Hall, to embrace her Broadway roots and show off her glorious singing talents. Check local listings.

2013

May

MERLIN By David Bianculli

Next week is this show’s series finale, and tonight’s episode sets up the final conflict: a battle for supremacy with, on the one side, Merlin and Arthur and the knights of Camelot, and, on the other, evil sorceress Morgana. Keep an eye on her: She’s played by Katie McGrath, who, come fall, will slide into another fantasy genre series, starring as Lucy Westenra in NBC’s new Dracula.

2013

May

SAFETY LAST By David Bianculli

An all-night TCM salute to one of the most inventive (and, in some circles, underrated) silent comics, Harold Lloyd, begins with his best-known film, the 1923 silent classic Safety Last. This movie, made 90 years ago (!), is the one in which Lloyd, as a department-store employee, hires a daredevil to attract attention by climbing his store building like a human spider – no equipment, no net – and when the daredevil fails to come through, Lloyd takes it upon himself, ascending to one

2013

May

TWO AND A HALF MEN By David Bianculli

This repeat from last season features the return of a former cast regular – the delightfully loopy April Bowlby (at left in photo), as Alan’s former love interest, Kandi. Kandi left the Malibu beach house, and Alan, to star in a TV procedural show called Stiffs (series producer Chuck Lorre’s deadpan, dead-on parody of CSI: Miami). Now she’s back – and once again, she sets her sights on someone under Charlie’s roof. But not Alan. And not Charlie.

2013

May

MOTIVE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: ABC presented a sneak preview of this Canadian import on Monday, but Motive has its official series premiere tonight – which, not coincidentally, is the day after the end of the May ratings sweeps. Obviously, ABC doesn’t have too much faith in this new police drama, which stars Kristin Lehman, and comes from Dexter and The Mentalist producer Daniel Cerone. The gimmick of Motive is that we see the killer, and the murder, before Lehman’s investigator arrives on t

2013

May

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

This new installment should please fans of both Harry Potter and The Great Gatsby. Sharing the couch tonight on Norton’s wild and crazy British talk show are, among others, Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry Potter movies, and Isla Fisher and Baz Luhrmann, the supporting actress and director, respectively, of the new Gatsby remake.

2013

May

ELEMENTARY By David Bianculli

Last week’s two-hour season finale explained a lot of things, and established a lot of surprising twists. Without saying what they are, I’ll just point out that this repeat, from earlier this season, now has a lot of “What’s wrong with this picture?” elements to it. The plot of this rerun has Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) identifying the man he believes killed Irene Adler, the great love of his life. And now, of course, Elementary fans know how many things are i

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