Tonight, the topics from last week will include the most recent debate among Democratic hopefuls for the 2020 presidential race. There are other topics, too, but that one, for John Oliver, would be more than enough…

2019

Sep

THE TOP FIVE OF FALL 2019 ACCORDING TO MIKE HUGHES By Mike Hughes

EDITOR'S NOTE: TV Worth Watching will be bringing you highlights of the Fall 2019 television season over the next few weeks through a series of "Top Five" lists (returning or new programs) from our contributors. Mike Hughes has our next list...

2019

Sep

THE STORY OF THE RISE OF A GENRE WITH KEN BURNS' 'COUNTRY MUSIC' ON PBS By Mike Hughes

To understand the big-tent view of Ken Burns' Country Music (airing on PBS beginning Sunday, September 15– check local listings) let's step back 46 years...

2019

Sep

WELCOME TO MARWEN By David Bianculli

Robert Zemeckis has made some groundbreaking films that, at the time, stretched the methods in which movies were made, from the animation-meets-live-action of Who Framed Roger Rabbit to the long-delayed filmmaking chunks to portray the passage of time in Castaway. His Welcome to Marwen, based on an actual story of a former soldier who found solace in an imaginary world populated by dolls who resembled the friendly (and less friendly) people in his life. In this case

2019

Sep

THE ESSENTIALS: "RASHOMON" By David Bianculli

Ava DuVernay is Ben Mackiewicz’s guest co-host for TCM’s The Essentials this month, and this week DuVernay selects some seminal films by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. His 1950 drama, Rashomon, has remained, ever since, the template for all movie dramas showing the same event from multiple perspectives, and it leads off tonight’s Essentials showcase. Toshiro Mifune (pictured), later to co-star in NBC’s Shogun, stars in this story

2019

Sep

NETFLIX DROPS A PAINFUL AND POWERFUL DRAMA WITH 'UNBELIEVABLE' By David Hinckley

Don’t stop watching Unbelievable after the first episode, even though all you can feel at that point is depressed...

2019

Sep

UNBELIEVABLE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This series, based on a true story, has enticing talent both in front of and behind the camera. It’s the story of a young girl who claims to be the victim of an assault, but the lack of physical proof and other evidence leads her to be dismissed by authorities – until years later, when a team of investigators links her case to similar assaults on single women elsewhere. The initial victim, Marie, is played by Kaitlyn Dever, whom Justified fans will remember

2019

Sep

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Michael Moore returns to Maher’s show tonight – and these two old friends usually goad each other into saying or doing something quite memorable. Like when, in 2004, Maher and Moore dropped to their knees to beg Ralph Nader not to run for President as an independent candidate again and siphon votes from the Democrats (pictured). They failed, Nader ran, George W. Bush beat John Kerry that November, and the rest is history. And today is history, too. You just wait…

2019

Sep

GOOD TALK WITH ANTHONY JESELNIK By David Bianculli

I like this show, and its host, enough to keep recommending it. It reminds me a bit of David Steinberg’s recent interview series with fellow comedians, but Jeselnik is less interested in process, which is fascinating, than in anything that strikes his fancy, which is equally fascinating. Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik may have the look of Charlie Rose, but has more of the conversational feel of Howard Stern. And with these first episodes of Good Talk populated by Jesel

2019

Sep

THE I-LAND By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix limited series has a clever title – taking Apple’s ubiquitous iprefix, which already has given us such resonant TV series names as iZombie, and using it for a high-tech, computer-generated artificial environment equivalent of a deserted island. Or i-Land, get it? Sure, okay. But this story, which introduces us to 10 people who wake up on the same deserted isle with no memories, and have to work their way though a threatening,

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