SEASON FINALE: Tonight this series ends its second season – and since it only recently was renewed for a Season 3, tonight’s season finale may offer a bit more finality than most, because the show’s writers couldn’t count on continuing the story.

2014

Aug

GARFUNKEL AND OATES By David Bianculli

Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci have turned their new series into a clever showcase, and not just for their songs. They’re playing with sitcom conventions, much in the tradition of Louis C.K., Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Flight of the Conchords, and Larry David before them. If you haven’t seen this series yet, give it a chance.

2014

Aug

FXX MEGA-MARATHON: ALL 'SIMPSONS,' ALL THE TIME By David Bianculli

With every episode of The Simpsons about to appear in a mega-marathon on FXX, I can’t help but think back to the series launch on Fox. Neither can my now-grown kids…

2014

Aug

TEARS FOR A CLOWN By Linda Donovan

We’ve heard, read and seen many eloquent and emotional tributes to Robin Williams since his death on August 11^th. When David Letterman returned to Late Show after his vacation, it was his turn to pay homage...

2014

Aug

HAPPY VALLEY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Here’s a new Netflix Original series, produced by the BBC, that arrives today with a lot less fanfare than the usual Netflix offering – but it’s well worth seeking out and sampling. Shown in the U.K. earlier this year, the six-episode drama series stars Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood, a uniformed police sergeant in a small valley town in Yorkshire. It may be setting expectations too high to compare Happy Valley to Helen Mirren’s groundbreaking role

2014

Aug

DOCTOR WHO TAKEOVER WEEK By David Bianculli

I could have just pointed out the Doctor Who takeover week, with its wall-to-wall programming and complete romps through the modern era of this delightful and durable sci-fi series, because I’ve seen all these episodes before. But no. I had to turn my TV to BBC America and get sucked in all over again, freshly impressed by the cleverness of the writing and the freshness of the acting. Few series can manage to be so funny, so suspenseful, so genuinely involving, and so unpredictable, all in

2014

Aug

OUTSIDE THE LINES: PETE ROSE By David Bianculli

It’s been 25 years since Pete Rose signed a contract agreeing to a lifetime ban from professional baseball – a contract he now says he thought was for one year, and a ban that this special reevaluates in the light of what other baseball players have done since, and how their punishments do and don’t measure up. Interviewees in this special include both Rose and the baseball commissioner who banned him, Bud Selig.

2014

Aug

EXTANT By David Bianculli

CBS is doubling down, or at least doubling up, on this Halle Berry sci-fi series tonight, by presenting two episodes back to back. That’s usually less a show of confidence than a desire to burn off the remaining episodes before the fall season begins in earnest – and that could well be the case here as well.

2014

Aug

ANNIE HALL By David Bianculli

I absolutely adore this 1977 movie – which must be obvious to even the casual TVWW reader, because I highlight it almost every time it’s televised. And why not? It’s one of the funniest comedies ever filmed – and one of the most inventive, too. And in the supporting roles, even the actors and actresses showing up just for a line or two hit it out of the park. This time, I think I’ll run a picture of Jeff Goldblum, who always makes me laugh.

2014

Aug

DON PARDO 1918 - 2014 By Bill Brioux

Born February 22, 1918, Dominick George "Don" Pardo joined the NBC Radio Network as an announcer in June of 1944 -- or, as Lorne Michaels once pointed out, "before I was born..."

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