SERIES PREMIERE: This is the newest entry in the Marvel universe of TV shows, and there are enough of those, by now, for a very wide spectrum of expectations and experiences. On the low, disappointing end, there’s ABC’s Marvel’s The Inhumans. On the high, gloriously original end, there’s FX’s Legion. This new series, on Freeform, is destined to fall somewhere in between, but with a slow start and a very high-concept premise. Two teenagers, played by Olivia Holt and

2018

Jun

THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

Shown in prime time, and uninterrupted, this is the perfect way to watch, on television, the ultimate fantasy film, which next year will be 80 years old. Gather the family… and your little dog, too.

2018

Jun

NASHVILLE By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON PREMIERE: Nashville is returning for its final episodes (the finale is due in July), with new characters introduced (hi, Ronny Cox!) and old story lines finally realized. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

2018

Jun

AMERICAN WOMAN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: It’s unfortunate for this series, set in the 1970s, that such excellent, well-written series as Big Little Lies have been televised recently, making the clunky writing and cartoonishly sketched characters of this new Paramount series seem even more absurd. The reason to watch is the casting: stars include Alicia Silverstone from Clueless and Mena Suvari from American Beauty. But the stories of suburban unhappiness, revenge and triumph were accomplished with a much more sol

2018

Jun

'NASHVILLE' RETURNS FOR FINAL CMT SEASON By David Hinckley

Nashville is tuning up for its final chorus. Prime-time’s best country music soap launches its last eight episodes Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on CMT, which gave the show two additional and welcome years after its four-season run on ABC...

2018

Jun

IMPULSE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Bourne Identity director Doug Liman also helmed the 2008 movie Jumper, about a teen who discovers a latent and mysterious talent for, among other things, teleportation and telekinesis. Liman has returned to the same source material to present Impulse, this new 10-part series in which Maddie Hasson plays a vulnerable young woman who, when she feels threatened, suddenly unleashes a power that, at first, she can neither comprehend nor control. (Think of it as FX’s Legion, onl

2018

Jun

TREASURES FROM THE DISNEY VAULT By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Once again, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin guides TCM viewers on a personal tour through the Disney vaults. All of the cartoons, shorts, and movies shown tonight are TCM premieres – and while the movies are marginal, the cartoons are fun, and some of the shorts and compilations are invaluable. The best of the best tonight includes A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios (pictured, 8 p.m. ET), a 15-minute short that’s so fascinating because it was made in 1937 &ndash

2018

Jun

2018 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS By David Bianculli

The Cleveland Cavaliers almost won Game 1, and let it slip away in overtime, then were thoroughly outpaced by the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 (especially by Steph Curry’s record-setting downpour of three-pointers). So the Cavaliers have lost the first two games of the series – but remember, that happened against the Boston Celtics as well, and the Cavs came back to advance to the finals. So here comes Game 3, the first game where Cleveland has home-court advantage. But do they ha

2018

Jun

CONDOR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: If you have DirecTV, you have access to the Audience Network, which is where you can find this new series adaptation of 1975’s engrossing 3 Days of the Condor movie, which starred Robert Redford as a CIA analyst. This new series, starring Max Irons as the investigator, makes some necessary and, for the most part, justifiable changes: the guy reads computer screens and financial data instead of obscure books, and meets a woman at random through Tinder rather than at gunpoin

2018

Jun

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Last week on this show, Samantha Bee lashed out at Ivanka Trump’s silence on the treatment of babies and young children separated from their parents as part of President Trump’s new immigration policy by branding her with a two-word insult, the first word of which was “feckless.” (To repeat the second word here would be… reckless.) Bee subsequently apologized, and has let it be known she plans to address her remarks on tonight’s show. Stay tuned.

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