SERIES PREMIERE: Building a sci-fi series around intergalactic bounty hunters is nothing new, and Killjoys, written by Michelle Lovretta, strives to hit the same vibe as Joss Whedon’s Firefly: charming rogue, beautiful and resourceful companion, colorful villains, “Wild West in space” feel. It doesn’t quite gel in the first few episodes, but there are moments – and Hannah John-Kamen, as the bounty hunter named Dutch, makes a strong first impression.

2015

Jun

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Now here’s a show: The always quotable (and usually reprehensible) Ann Coulter is on hand, as is Bernie Sanders, the junior senator from Vermont who’s running for President. If HBO was not a pay channel, his presence here would invoke the Equal Time Rule, and Maher would have to interview everyone running for President this time, if they requested to come on his show after Sanders’ appearance – but Maher probably would like that, anyway.

2015

Jun

BACK TO THE FUTURE: WILLIAMS' RETURN TO MSNBC COULD BE A PURGATORY WITH A SILVER LINING By Ed Bark

This much is certain. Brian Williams certainly can’t hurt MSNBC, which has been a third place near-corpse in the cable news network ratings for the past 10 months...

2015

Jun

NEW U.S. OPEN GOLF COURSE REDEFINES BUNKER MENTALITY By Gerald Jordan

The 115^th U.S. Open is scheduled to tee off Thursday on a new course – 8 years old – that is making its debut as an Open championship venue. That means, other than Jordan Spieth, no other recognized competitor has played for a cup on Chambers Bay...

2015

Jun

2015 U.S. OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Today marks the beginning of the 2015 U.S. Open Golf tournament, taking place, this year, on the West Coast, on a course that’s new, treacherous, and more like a British links course than a well-groomed American one. In other words, should be fun. Fox Sports begins coverage at noon ET, and continues until the regular Fox network takes over at 8 ET. For a full preview, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.

2015

Jun

THE FLY & MOTHRA By David Bianculli

TCM is promoting tonight’s six-movie lineup as its one-night exercise in “Bugging Out” – presenting sci-fi movies featuring killer insects. The night begins with the original 1958 version of The Fly (“Help meeeee! Help meeee!”), followed at 9:45 p.m. ET by 1961’s original Mothra, one of the first Japanese horror films I ever saw, about a giant moth and – for some reason – some high-pitched girls (pictured) who, well, just watch. There’s

2015

Jun

THE SEVENTIES By David Bianculli

Part 2. Tonight’s installment is called United States vs. Nixon, and devotes an hour to one of the most important events of the Seventies: Watergate and its political and social aftermath. Turns out our President was a crook – and our country has never been the same. Neither has the English language, which has fallen into a knee-jerk reliance upon one particular controversy-labeling suffix that we may as well give up and call Gategate.

2015

Jun

HANNIBAL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode gets seriously global. Not only is Hannibal in Italy, but now so is Jack, who’s hot on his trail. Also on his trail, though a little colder of one, is Will, whose search takes him to Hannibal’s boyhood home of Lithuania. What? You were expecting Hannibal, Missouri?

2015

Jun

ALONE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: NOT a recommendation: In this new reality competition series, ten survival experts are dropped off, individually, to survive in isolation until all but one of them calls the whole thing off. The idea of an extended “social experiment” – or, in this case, an “anti-social” one – sure worked well for Fox’s Utopia, so why not try it again? And for a channel named History, this may be the series in its history that has less to do with the cha

2015

Jun

FRASIER: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli

Cheers already has been awarded the TVWW Seal of Approval, and Frasier becomes one of the few TV spinoff series deserving to make the list as well...

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