April showers bring May flowers – and on TCM, May flowers bring June musicals. Tuesdays and Thursdays this month, TCM devotes all day, and even prime time, to the Hollywood musical. There are plenty on view today to see, and hear, including some old Busby Berkeley classics and other pivotal early movies. Kicking it off this morning is 1933’s Footlight Parade, a prototypical musical featuring Berkeley’s iconic choreography and stars Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell – but all

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HUMANS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After a very lengthy hiatus between seasons, AMC’s Humans returns for Season 3. A year has passed on this show’s narrative as well, and the “synths” – this pre-Westworld term for its engineered humanoids – have been divided into two easily identifiable subgroups. As in Westworld, there are the functioning, unquestioning, human-like artificial beings – and then there are the “aware” ones, who have some semblance of identity an

2018

Jun

LEGION By David Bianculli

We’re almost at the end of this season of Legion, and I’m not even sure where we are, geographically or emotionally. But I do know that the events of the past few episodes, tough as they may be to describe and explain, have gotten David very, very angry. And when he gets angry, things around him tend to be in grave danger. Tonight, with an important missing body about to be located, the term “grave danger” may well have a greater meaning.

2018

Jun

GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli

In tonight’s Episode 8, the younger Picasso, played by Alex Rich, sets out to design a ballet – which leads him to also have designs on a beautiful ballerina, Olga Khoklova (played by Sofia Doniants), who is destined to become Picasso’s first wife, and an early muse.

2018

Jun

TV REMAKES: BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT — NOT THAT THERE’S NECESSARILY ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT By Alex Strachan

To hear some people tell it, the upcoming 2018-19 network TV season is the Year of the Remake — and they’re not far wrong...

2018

Jun

TALES OF THE CITY By David Bianculli

The six-hour Tales of the City miniseries, based on the novel by Armistead Maupin, premiered in the U.K. in 1993, five years before HBO premiered its own groundbreaking drama, Sex and the City. In both, the story revolved around a young woman in the big city, getting by with a little help from her friends. In Sex and the City, the young woman was played by Sarah Jessica Parker, and the city was contemporary New York City. In Tales of the City, first imported to the U.S. in 1994, the city was 197

2018

Jun

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This improv comedy series began in a previous century, premiering on ABC in 1999. Since then, it’s resurfaced, after brief breathers, on what was then ABC Family, and, since 2013, on its current network, CW. The show’s first host was Drew Carey, who was succeeded, years ago, by Aisha Tyler, who continues to preside over the action and antics tonight, as Whose Line begins season 13 tonight. Familiar and very funny collaborators, making it up as they go along, include

2018

Jun

DIETLAND By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The 1986 miniseries Life and Loves of a She-Devil (much, much better than the subsequent Roseanne Barr-Meryl Streep movie) was all about an unattractive woman reinventing herself, physically as well as emotionally, to wreak revenge on those who had slighted or rejected her. And long before that, in 1973, Stockard Channing starred in a made-for-TV movie called The Girl Most Likely To…, written by Joan Rivers (!), with the same basic premise. And now, in 2018, comes Dietlan

2018

Jun

2018 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS By David Bianculli

The final minute in regulation of Game 1 of this year’s NBA Finals, the minute that ended up forcing an overtime period, was a hot mess, with LeBron James doing everything he could to secure a last-minute victory against the Golden State Warriors, but with his own teammates making crucial mistakes as time ran out. A missed free throw here, a failure to take a timely shot there, and presto: it was on to overtime, where the Warriors bulldozed over the frustrated Cavs and ran away with Game 1

2018

Jun

THE FOURTH ESTATE By David Bianculli

Last week, this documentary series premiered, looking at how The New York Times covered the Donald Trump presidency – beginning with such headline-generating stories as the President’s claim that he had been wiretapped by the FBI at the insistence of the Obama administration. The players may be different (hello, again, Sean Spicer), but with “Spygate” claims all over the news these days, this look back at politics and press coverage also seems uncomfortably… timely

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