If you watched last week’s super-hyped premiere, and want to return for more, here’s Episode 2. I point this out only as a possible service, not with any degree of actual enthusiasm.

2014

Aug

KATT WILLIAMS: "PRICELESS: AFTERLIFE" By David Bianculli

This is Katt Williams’ first standup comedy special in several years – almost a decade, in fact – and it’s clear he’s stored up a lot of material. As always, some of the topics on which he touches are so unusual, and usually left alone by fellow comics, that the road less traveled tends to lead to something funny as well as fresh.

2014

Aug

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

This second installment in a two-part special devoted to Maya Angelou provides excerpts from another of Moyers’ shows featuring her. This one is from 1988, in which he and Angelou, a childhood rape victim who was stunned into a five-year silence before poetry reawakened her spirit, attend a conference on “Facing Evil.” For dates and times when this series runs in your area, check the Moyers & Company website. Check local listings.

2014

Aug

BONNIE AND CLYDE By David Bianculli

Today is Faye Dunaway day on TCM. And really, the lineup the channel is presenting of her films makes for one of the month’s strongest overall offerings. The morning movies are good enough, but starting with 1967’s influential Bonnie and Clyde, in which she starred opposite Warren Beatty, at 3:30 p.m. ET, it’s a five-film assault of dizzying creativity, spanning many different genres. At 5:30 p.m. ET, from 1970, it’s Little Big Man, a Western comedy of epic proportions st

2014

Aug

HAPPY DAYS By David Bianculli

Why devote some Friday night viewing time, and a Best Bet, to a 1978 episode of Happy Days? Because this particular episode of this nostalgic sitcom is the one that introduced Robin Williams as Mork, a fast-talking, freewheeling alien visitor from the planet Ork. The Hub network is repeating it tonight, as a special tribute to Williams – and the title of the episode is sly enough to nod to TV’s past. It’s called “My Favorite Orkan.” He was indeed.

2014

Aug

THE KNICK By David Bianculli

In Episode 2 of The Knick, the characters deepen, the conflicts sharpen, and another trip into the operating theater proves just how intelligently this show intends to proceed. Clive Owen stars as a gifted but abrasive surgeon at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, in the pivotal year of 1900. For a full review, hear or read my report on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross website.

2014

Aug

REMEMBERING ROBIN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli

CNN devotes an hour to the memory, and pop-culture contributions, of Robin Williams, whose death has provoked lots of sadness, and just as much conversation.

2014

Aug

THE SIXTIES: "SEX, DRUGS & ROCK N' ROLL" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: For the second time, because of breaking news and resultant rescheduling, I’ve been premature in describing specific installments of this series. But unless more breaking stories intervene, this is the final installment of The Sixties, and this last installment includes, as it should, one of the defining, and last, iconic events of that decade: the August 1969 three-day music and arts festival known as Woodstock. “The New York State Thruway is closed, man!”

2014

Aug

NY MED By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The stories in tonight’s season finale are, as always, an engrossing mixture of life-and-death and routine procedures, throwing light on both patients and caregivers to tell true stories that are as inspiring as they are worthwhile. Viewers should be given credit for making this nonfiction series a summer hit. ABC should be given credit for making it in the first place: In the summer, it’s a rare and welcome oasis of intelligence in a very vapid landscape.

2014

Aug

GARFUNKEL AND OATES By David Bianculli

Last week’s premiere episode revealed this new comedy series to be a very smart, intentionally unusual series – with doses of everything from Louie and Curb Your Enthusiasm to Inside Amy Schumer and Flight of the Conchords. Smart, smart series. And tonight, “Garfunkel and Oates,” otherwise known as Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, are shown struggling to write a new song – as are their porn-star doppelgangers. (Say, what rhymes with doppelgangers? Paper hangers?)

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