DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2012
Jul
30
 
 
And the guest stars just keep on coming: This week, one of those stars is Minnie Driver, playing someone who gets a chance to play Lisa Kudrow’s Fiona in a movie – but, she tells Fiona, playing a prettier version of her. Nice.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
30
 
 
—Unfortunately, The Complete Series of HBO’s Deadwood is only three seasons long...Fortunately, those three seasons gave us one of the best-written, best-performed dramas in TV history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
30
 
 
One of the bigger stories of the 2012 London Olympics is Michael Phelps' quest to become the all-time top medalist in history. Phelps already holds the record for most career gold medals (14)...Phelps has 17 medals one less than Russian-Ukranian gymnast Larisa Latynina, who captured 18. Here's a reel showing how Latynina's sport of the uneven bars, like so many others, has noticeably evolved since the '50s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
30
 
 
CBS threw a perfect press tour party Sunday, offering plenty of access to the biggest names across their various network and cable properties...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
While promoting his new talk show, Jeff Probst tells an amazing story about how his Tikki torch first got lit on the long-running reality show Survivor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
The supermodels sharing insights in HBO's About Face are hardly Model Ts, but are still far removed from their days as A-list, pouty-lipped clothes mares...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
Saturday's Day 1 of the 2012 Summer Olympics had the U.S. women's volleyball team winning again, the USA archery squad missing gold on the final arrow, and Michael Phelps coming up just short in his quest for another Olympic medal, placing fourth in his first race - opposite team rival Ryan Lochte, who won gold. Today's events, spread across many TV and Internet venues, include another swimming event in which Phelps is competing, but this time as part of a U.S. relay team. NBC's prime-time cover
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
This show amazes me by its dizzying pace, and its ability and desire to pivot, in a second, with major plot points that most TV shows would milk for half a season. Last week, a few drops of blood from the fabled “original vampire,” Lilith, turned out to have instant transformative power, turning Bill and Eric (Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard) into, quite literally, bloodthirsty killers. Eric snapped out of it, but what’s to happen next? Especially since, in other subplots, b
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
Last week’s opening of this season’s second episode, with its German-language scene set inside a food-science manufacturing laboratory, was a marvel of singularly different and daring TV writing. (Thanks, Vince Gilligan!) And by the end of that episode, a major new character (Lydia, played by Laura Fraser, right), and new motivations and conflicts, had been established, setting the stage for tonight’s hour. Which, by the way, is the first of this season’s batch that I was
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
29
 
 
I know people who love to hate this show, but I’m just the opposite: I love it, and really am happy to be watching it. Last week’s installment centered on the Egyptian spring, and also gave Olivia Munn, as economics reporter Sloan, her best scenes yet – with more to come this week, as Sloan is asked to sub as anchor for the network’s lead-out 10 p.m. show.