Host Terry Crews of Fox's Brooklyn Nine Nine showed he can sing as well as do shtick. “President Camacho” was joined by surprise guest co-host Miss Piggy, who seemed right at home in a room full of hambones...

2014

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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY HILARIOUS: MONTY PYTHON'S LATEST FAREWELL TOUR By David Bianculli

In the States, we can’t see the live telecast of Sunday’s final Monty Python stage show in London that starts any minute. But it’s coming to DVD in November – meanwhile, I attended the show earlier this week…

2014

Jul

2014 BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

The action for today’s final, live from the Royal Liverpool course, begins early – and begins with the leader, Rory McIlroy, enjoying a six-stroke lead going into the final day of play. McIlroy, at age 25, would claim the third leg of a Grand Slam in major tournaments if he holds steady today – and holding steady certainly was his specialty on Saturday. He began yesterday with a four-stroke lead, but with only five holes to play, Ricky Fowler had fought McIlroy to a tie at 12 u

2014

Jul

TRUE BLOOD By David Bianculli

In its final season, True Blood has rejuvenated itself, pulsing with new life like a freshly fed vampire. Last week’s episode, in which Sookie (Anna Paquin) went on a rescue mission with many of the show’s most compelling characters: Bill (Stephen Moyer), Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Sam (Sam Trammell), Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and my favorite character of all, Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten). That hour had action, drama and blood galore – but it also had

2014

Jul

GUNSLINGERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-part series premieres tonight as a new nonfiction presentation – nonfiction that is, with lots of recreations – from what used to be called the Military Channel. This limited series about Old West Gunslingers – with a half-dozen episodes, it’s a proverbial six-shooter – isn’t very compelling as it builds to its recreated action scenes. They’re a mix between Wild West frontier tourist shows and Matrix-like slo-mo gunplay. But the

2014

Jul

THE STRAIN By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode two, we learn more about the few passengers who were able to walk away, eventually, from that otherwise fatal flight. And we also learn about the plane’s mysterious cargo – a dirty little secret, having to do with dirt and a vintage box, that echoes one of the memorable myths from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Welcome aboard, folks. Corey Stoll stars as the scientist trying to tie all these mysterious threads together.

2014

Jul

THE LOTTERY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: As a one-shot telemovie, this futuristic drama might have worked: It’s not so much a remake of Shirley Jackson’s classic short story about violently and randomly dispensed justice as it is a sci-fi tale about a barren society in which 100 fertilized human eggs are put up for grabs by canny politicians. Marley Shelton stars as the scientist who makes the fertility beakthrough – and though this series quickly follows a derivative and less satisfying story line, i

2014

Jul

MASTERS OF SEX By David Bianculli

William Masters (Michael Sheen) begins a new job, which should put an end to a chance of any relationship, at least professionally, with Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) – but it won’t.

2014

Jul

JAMES GARNER: 1928-2014 By David Bianculli

James Garner, whose death at age 86 was just announced… leaves behind two iconic TV series roles, a handful of exceptional telemovies, and one of the most impressive resumes in TV history…

2014

Jul

BARBARIANS AT THE GATE By David Bianculli

Partly in honor of the passing of James Garner, but also because this 1993 HBO movie fully deserves a Seal of Approval, here it is: a boldly conceptualized, brilliantly realized black comedy about a leveraged buyout corporate takeover of a major tobacco company...

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