PBS has never pushed the imported Tunnel series very hard, perhaps because its three seasons have stretched over six years or maybe because it’s always been shrouded in a melancholy darkness...

2018

Aug

TCA SUMMER PRESS TOUR PART 4 – FOX PRESENTS OLD FAVES AND NEW FACES. MAYBE By Roger Catlin

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Things were already getting squirrelly a week into the TV Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour...

2018

Aug

THE 2000S: "THE FINANCIAL CRISIS" By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new installment of The 2000s is called The Financial Crisis, and it’s an episode to watch very, very closely, while remembering George Santayana’s warning that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And that’s not just referring to the inevitable repeat showings of this hour on CNN.

2018

Aug

SHARP OBJECTS By David Bianculli

Part 5. Part of this episode includes some unforgettably dramatic sex scenes, with more context and subtext than such scenes usually are given. But another part includes the very odd spectacle of the town’s young women, including Amma, take part in a poetic-license “recreation” of a Confederate-era story (pictured) as creepily sexist and subversive as anything in The Handmaid’s Tale. And the entire festival is held on the grounds of Adora’s plantation-style estate,

2018

Aug

THE HISTORY OF COMEDY: "GONE TOO SOON" By David Bianculli

This new CNN History of Comedy installment is called Gone Too Soon, and talks about the comedians who died young enough to have fans wondering what they might have said and done in the years and decades to come. Surely, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams will be part of this hour – as will one late comic, already announced as part of the program, the lesser-known Mitch Hedberg (pictured), whose memorable one-liners included: “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and

2018

Aug

WHO IS AMERICA? By David Bianculli

In one of the episodes that remain for Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest disguised-correspondent prank exercise, among his targets is Sarah Palin, whom he interviewed in the guise of one of his new show’s alter ego characters, Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D. (pictured). Palin already has complained, charging that Cohen duped her by pretending to be a wounded military veteran. Cohen has countered that his Ruddick character was in a motorized scooter (not, as Palin recounted, a wheelchair), an

2018

Aug

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

What news do you most hope John Oliver will decide to cover tonight in his weekly recap? For me, it’s LeBron James (pictured)… fingers crossed.

2018

Aug

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI By David Bianculli

Writer-director Martin McDonagh, whose mastery of small-town characters and conflicts were established indisputably with 2008's In Bruges, presents this new 2017 movie, starring the fabulous Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman grieving over the unsolved murder of her daughter. She rents the titular Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and begins plastering them with questions and taunts aimed at the local police, demanding they do more to advance their daughter’s case. Woody Harrels

2018

Aug

THE 2000S: "THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION" By David Bianculli

On Sunday, CNN presents another new installment of its new documentary series The 2000s, this time focusing on that decade’s financial crisis (remember that?). Tonight, though, CNN repeats the opener of The 2000s, in which I’m pleased to say I appear, and even more pleased to report that I seem to have inspired the episode’s title. If you missed this two-hour look at TV in The 2000s, which includes detailed appreciations of everything from Oz and The Larry Sanders Show to The W

2018

Aug

LIKE FATHER By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer star in this new Netflix comedy-drama She plays a bride-to-be who gets rejected at the altar, but decides to embark on a prepaid honeymoon cruise anyway – and in her drunken and rejected state, agrees to take her estranged father along as her cruise companion. Grammer plays the father.

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