Judy Davis’ Emmy Award-winning performance as Judy Garland in a 2001 ABC miniseries remains one of television’s greatest ever. So where she goes next, I try to follow...

2018

Aug

THE LAST SHARKNADO: IT'S ABOUT TIME By David Bianculli

Since the original Sharknado waterspouted onto the scene in 2013, Syfy has produced four sequels, all, like the original, starring Ian Ziering and Tara Reid and sporting some spiffy subtitles. (My favorites are the two most recent: Sharknado: The 4th Awakens and Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.) Now, tonight, comes the sixth entry in the franchise, The Last Sharknado: It’s about Time, which allows the feeding frenzy to travel through time and space, and encounter such unusual food-chain

2018

Aug

THE 2000S: "I WANT MY MP3" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: The 2000s already has presented a disturbingly eye-opening installment this season with The I Decade, showing the rapid and life-changing introduction and growth of Apple, Amazon and Google in the first decade of the new millennium. Tonight, in its final episode, it presents another hour that illustrates just how rapidly technology is evolving – and changing us in the process. In the early 1980s, one of the big technological life-changers was cable television, specifical

2018

Aug

SHARP OBJECTS By David Bianculli

Part 7. By the end of this episode, Camille (Amy Adams) reveals more about herself than she ever has before, to viewers and to the men she’s spending time with. And by the end of this episode, you’ll have good reason to wonder not only about her past traumas, but her present choices.

2018

Aug

THE HISTORY OF COMEDY: "NO OFFENSE" By David Bianculli

Last week’s History of Comedy installment on CNN was all about comedy teams, and I said that if it didn’t pay healthy respect to the Smothers Brothers, I’d be outraged. Tonight’s new installment, No Offense, is all about comedy and censorship. And, once again, if it doesn’t pay healthy respect to the Smothers Brothers, I’ll be outraged. You could write a whole book on that subject, and I did: Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of ‘The Smothers

2018

Aug

KRAFT MUSIC HALL: "WOODY ALLEN LOOKS AT 1967" By David Bianculli

If you have Dish TV, or are lucky enough to have a getTV affiliate operating locally over-the-air or on your cable system, take special care to find it tonight in time to watch and record tonight’s special presentation honoring Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday. It’s a rare showing of the Dec. 27, 1967 installment of the variety series Kraft Music Hall, and features young Aretha, in the year she burst onto the charts and the national music scene, performing her then-new hits “

2018

Aug

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I’ve seen every episode of this weekly news recap, and every episode both makes me laugh and makes me think – two things TV, in my case, accomplishes much too infrequently.

2018

Aug

A STAR IS BORN By David Bianculli

Last Friday, TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” saluted Barbra Streisand, presenting a day and night of movies featuring the luminous and singular musical talent and movie star. One of those films was 1976’s A Star is Born, in which she played a rising musical star tumultuously paired with a falling star, played by Kris Kristofferson. Today’s featured star is another musical and film legend, Judy Garland – and tonight’s lineup features, at 11:45 p.m. ET, an

2018

Aug

ESME & ROY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new children’s series, a co-production of Canada’s Nelvana Studios and our own Sesame Workshop, is about a little girl and her best friend, a monster named Roy. Their primary pastime is to babysit or otherwise care for other neighborhood monsters. Sounds like my life, when I worked from home and had young kids with lots of after-school visitors.

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