We’re getting near the end of The Bridge. Tonight is Episode 11, which has the ominous title of “Take the Ride, Pay the Toll.” And it indeed does take us back to that bridge, where the discoveries of the two half-bodies started this international murder investigation in the first place. And for Marco (Demian Bachir), thos particular hunt couldn’t get more personal – or more agonizing.

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Sep

LA ROUE (THE WHEEL) By David Bianculli

Part of TCM’s special lineup tied to its Story of Film documentary series, tonight’s prime-time early cinematic offerings from around the world begin with a very rare telecast of this 1923 silent French film by Abel Gance, who later directed the sprawling masterpiece Napoleon. This movie is sprawling, too: Originally, it was eight hours long, more like a pre-television miniseries. Here, it’s pared down to about half that, but includes many of the same visual innovations and ima

2013

Sep

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Andy Samberg, from Saturday Night Live, and Andre Braugher, from Men of a Certain Age and Homicide: Life on the Street, are such an unlikely pairing – especially on a prime-time broadcast network sitcom – that this new series deserves a look. And after a first look, it’ll earn a second, because this is a series concept, and a bunch of eccentrically drawn characters, that could grow on you quickly. And surprisingly, in this comic setting, Braugher, playing the p

2013

Sep

NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) ended Season 2 by running off into the sunset, still together, somehow. Season 3 begins at sunrise – or, at least, in a sunny climate, after the combustible duo heads impulsively for a vacation in Mexico.

2013

Sep

THE MINDY PROJECT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 3 begins with Mindy (Mindy Kaling) off in Haiti with her pastor boyfriend – but while she’s away, her medical residency in New York has been inherited by a new OB/GYN, played by guest star James Franco. Before the episode is over, they meet on her home turf, which he now feels is his.

2013

Sep

SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

Last week’s season premiere was peppered with unexplained shots of a uniformed boy sitting and brooding – until the end of the episode, when he unpacked an automatic weapon and headed into his school. Tonight’s episode deals with the immediate aftermath of that tragedy – and how it impacts the SAMCRO club, which turns out to have been the source for the illegally obtained firearm. Charlie Hunnam stars.

2013

Sep

UN CHIEN ANDALOU By David Bianculli

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated on this 1928 short exercise in cinematic surrealism, which has images still capable of drawing gasps almost a century later. I know: I hear them every time I show this movie in my Rowan University film class.

2013

Sep

TELEVISION'S BEST HAS ITS BEST NIGHT YET By Eric Gould

You'd think there was only one show currently running on television, given all the space TVWW has devoted to Breaking Bad. But we just cannot recall another scripted series that has left us so electrified...

2013

Sep

FOX'S 'SLEEPY HOLLOW' HAS SOMETHING TO FEAR: TV'S KICKOFF CURSE By David Bianculli

Fox’s new Sleepy Hollow is designed as a scary show, but has something to fear besides fear itself. By being this fall’s first new series to premiere, it’s inheriting TV’s Kickoff Curse…

2013

Sep

SLEEPY HOLLOW By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: We plan to have our TVWW Fall Preview page available tomorrow, but Fox already is rolling out the season’s first new prime-time broadcast series. It’s a reworking of the Washington Irving story, bringing Ichabod Crane and his Headless Horseman adversary into the present day, to the confusion of all who encounter either of them. There are some playful moments that make this endurable, and Tom Mason and Nicole Beharie work well together, in a Moonlighting Lite sort of

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