Demelza Poldark not only has one of the most unusual names on television, but she has become one of its most fascinating characters as the PBS fave Poldark launches Season 4...

2018

Sep

CBS SUNDAY MORNING By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Today’s edition of CBS Sunday Morning, which launches Season 40 for the reliably excellent Sunday news series, includes a report, and a reporter, you should make a special effort to watch. The reporter is pioneering news figure Ted Koppel, and the subject of his report is equally pioneering TV visionary and mogul Ted Turner, creator of TBS, CNN, TCM and more. Turner now lives pretty much in seclusion on his huge ranch near Bozeman, Montana, and he tells Koppel about

2018

Sep

60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The most tenured prime-time series on television, 60 Minutes, begins Season 51 with a bang – and a Beatle. (But without an executive producer, as Jeff Fager has lost his job after allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior, regarding both treatment of women and sending a threatening text to a reporter.) One of the featured pieces is a profile of, and interview with, Sir Paul McCartney, whose latest album, Egypt Station, just topped the charts, some 55 years after he f

2018

Sep

THERE WILL BE DAD By Eric Gould

SNL returned for its 44th season Saturday night with Adam Driver hosting and starring in this sketch based on Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2008 drama, “There Will Be Blood."...

2018

Sep

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Hard to believe, and impressive to behold, but The Simpsons is beginning Season 30 tonight. That’s a lot of laughs – and a lot of garish yellow.

2018

Sep

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE WILDEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

Tonight’s installment not only covers the Brett Cavanaugh hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but also contains an exclusive: Circus co-anchor John Heilemann’s interview with Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

2018

Sep

GOD FRIENDED ME By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Brian Micheal Hall of The Mayor brings his easygoing charm to this new CBS fantasy series, in which he plays an atheist who is “friended” on social media… by God. This means, I guess, that God had to register for an account – but then again, if anyone could find a way around the red tape requirements for entry… But I digress. In concept, this series isn’t far at all from Joan of Arcadia, which I watched and enjoyed. But it starred Amber Tamb

2018

Sep

THE DEUCE By David Bianculli

To pursue her new career as a filmmaker of X-rated movies, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) continues to shoot scenes, and seek financing, for her porno version of. “Little Red Riding Hood.” But to raise some of that money, she decides to take a career step backwards, and try to earn it on the street.

2018

Sep

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Already this week, Stephen Colbert has railed against this week’s Senate hearings with unexpected seriousness, Trevor Noah with incisive irony, and Bill Maher with cautionary warnings of things to come. And now, tonight, comes the last, and often the best, current-events comic voice of the week. Don’t miss John Oliver.

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