The fabulous Encore miniseries, shown over two nights earlier this week, tonight is presented in its entirety, in a handy four-hour viewing (and recording) block. If you missed it before, don’t miss it again. Romala Garai, Chris O’Dowd, Gillian Anderson star in this story of a prostitute in 1874 London. For a full review, see my Bianculli’s Blog.

2012

Sep

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: “WALLANDER III” By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode, The Dogs of Riga, has Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) traveling to the Latvian capital, as he investigates the case of two dead Latvians whose charred bodies were carried by the current into Sweden.

2012

Sep

BORDWALK EMPIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Time jumps ahead to 1923, as Nucky (Steve Buscemi) rings in the new year, but with at least as much apprehension as celebration. New cast members include Bobby Cannavale (pictured), playing a hot-tempered thug named Gyp Rosetti. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader.

2012

Sep

WEEDS By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: I agree with those critics who suggest that this series has gone on for a few seasons too long — but for providing a weekly showcase for the sparkling, estimable talents of Mary-Louise Parker (as well as the already transplanted and less adeptly used Justin Kirk, on NBC’s Animal Practice), I’ll keep watching to the end. Which is tonight, in an expanded one-hour finale that returns Parker’s Nancy to the suburbs from which she came.

2012

Sep

J.J. ABRAMS' DARK WORLD By Ed Bark

Revolution, the most promising and expensive new series on NBC's fall schedule, is from the guy who keeps conjuring up doomsday or, at best, very foreboding scenarios...

2012

Sep

A PREPOSTEROUS MIX OF SYRINGES AND SHIVS By Ed Bark

Fox has grown accustomed to having a Monday night doctor in the house. Now it has The Mob Doctor, a notably inferior exercise in dese, dems and doses...

2012

Sep

THE DAY CARL SANDBURG DIED By Eric Gould

The PBS series American Masters takes a look at the life and times of poet, journalist and activist Carl Sandburg...it looks at the significance and effects of his work, which gained three Pulitzer Prizes...

2012

Sep

BOARDWALK EMPIRE BODY COUNT RISES By Eric Gould

The slogan for Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire is “You Can’t Be Half a Gangster” and the series, about gangsters running amok during Prohibition, shows what happens when they go full throttle. And when they do, the results aren''t very pretty...

2012

Sep

1972: 'THE BOB NEWHART SHOW' BEGAN ON CBS By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1972, CBS introduced The Bob Newhart Show, a sitcom starring comedian Bob Newhart as a Chicago psychologist...

2012

Sep

1965: 'LOST IN SPACE' TAKES OFF ON CBS By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1965 marked the debut of Lost in Space on CBS...

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