The current season of The Graham Norton Show just ended – but here’s a highlights episode to give you a hint of what you missed, or to relive some of the year’s best moments. Surely, those will include some of Seth MacFarlane’s vocal hijinks on the show that also included Tom Cruise, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Coldplay. And that’s just one show. For other highlights, and my appreciation of this imported talk show series, see Bianculli’s Blog.

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RELIVE HALF OF 'THE SIXTIES' IN A HANDFUL OF HOURS By David Bianculli

Barring major breaking news, CNN will devote its Sunday night, beginning at 8 p.m. ET, to a repeat telecast of the five episodes of The Sixties documentary series it’s shown to date. Here’s a very brief snippet from the opening installment, which focuses on the Smothers Brothers...

2014

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BATMAN MARATHON By David Bianculli

Holy marathon, Batman! Make that: Holy Batman marathon! For a giant chunk of time today, and resuming tomorrow morning at the same time, IFC is running through all three seasons of the still-not-on-home-video Batman series that camped it up beginning in 1966. Sorry if this surprises or disappoints anyone, but I find this silly series charmingly entertaining – both despite and because of the stubbornly stilted acting by Adam West and Burt Ward as Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Batman

2014

Jul

THE TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON By David Bianculli

Nothing says stay-at-home holidays like Syfy marathons of Rod Serling’s classic anthology series. Impatient viewers can tune in at 8:30 a.m. ET for a half hour, then return at 7:30 p.m. ET, to catch two of William Shatner’s Twilight Zone classics: first, as the superstitious fortune reader in “Nick of Time” (pictured), then as the frightened airplane passenger in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” But for the TV faithful who are really in the Zone, the treats are ser

2014

Jul

THE WALKING DEAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

Another great marathon rolling out all weekend, this one, from AMC, presents every episode of The Walking Dead to date, stretched over several days. Start a drinking game where you down a shot every time a regular character is killed, and you’ll have a very inebriated weekend indeed.

2014

Jul

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Note, please, that this first game is televised on ESPN2, not on ESPN. In today’s first World Cup quarterfinal, France and Germany, which emerged from the Group Round leading their divisions with identical 2-0-1 records and won their initial knockout round games rather easily (against, respectively, Nigeria and Algeria), now face one another. Both teams are dangerous, crafty, and intermittently explosive – and the fact that the U.S. team couldn’t make it this far should leave u

2014

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2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Today’s second quarterfinal, televised on ESPN, is the big World Cup game of the day – and, indeed, of the week. It pits Colombia against Brazil. Colombia, which breezed through Group C winning every game, and defeating Uruguay 2-0 in the knockout round, has excited fans with its passionate play and overall jubilance at advancing this far. And Brazil, which advanced with a 2-0-1 record in group play and won its last game, against Chile, only after completing bonus time and besting th

2014

Jul

A CAPITOL FOURTH By David Bianculli

Traditionally the best, and most proudly patriotic, of the evening’s July 4 festivities, this live concert from Washington, D.C., this year, is scheduled to include Kelli O’Hara (one of my favorite Broadway musical stars, and a repeat performer at this event, seen here in 2011), as well as Frankie Valli and the Muppets. Let’s hope those last two acts sing together. Check local listings.

2014

Jul

THE CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

Robert Redford could make almost any movie he wanted after 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid upped his profile, but almost immediately, he started making movies that spoke to him personally for one reason or another. In 1972, he made two such films: Jeremiah Johnson, the story of a mountain man in Utah that utilized the rugged natural beauty that would later house Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, and The Candidate, in which he played a charismatic politician with a seemingly

2014

Jul

MAE WEST FILM SALUTE By David Bianculli

Five films starring the outrageous Mae West are shown by TCM tonight, starting with a doubleheader of movies from 1933 in which, playing a knowing, leering femme fatale, she starred opposite a young Cary Grant. The first, I’m No Angel, starts at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 9:45 p.m. ET by She Done Him Wrong. Belle of the Nineties, from 1934, is up next, and the salute ends at 2:15 a.m. ET with 1943’s The Heat’s On – but don’t miss, at 12:45 a.m. ET, the biggest classic i

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