SERIES PREMIERE: Get set for another strong series to add to your weekly viewing list. With the addition of this new Showtime series, Sunday night, on this particular evening at least, presents four programs that are likely to end up on my end-of-year 10 Best list: Breaking Bad, Homeland, The Good Wife and now Masters of Sex. That we can watch four TV shows of this caliber any one season is impressive enough – but to see them all on a single night almost seems like an embarrassment of rich

2013

Sep

WASHINGTON IRVING: HE'S BACK. HE'S PUMPED. AND HE'S PISSED... By Noel Holston

The pitch: Washington Irving rises to avenge the ripoff and reconfiguring of not only The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but also the plot of his other best known story, Rip Van Winkle...

2013

Sep

SHOWTIME'S 'MASTERS OF SEX': YOU'LL WANT TO WATCH By Ed Bark

Showtime couples the Season 3 return of Homeland with the premiere of Masters of Sex... The latter drama series is the fall season’s best newcomer in this view, whether you watch it for the articles or otherwise...

2013

Sep

THIS IS 40 By David Bianculli

In 2012, Judd Apatow wrote and directed his most personal movie yet – a semi-sequel to Knocked Up, starring Paul Rudd and Apatow’s real-life wife, Leslie Mann, as a couple with kids, and getting older and more responsible despite their hopes to do otherwise. The Apatow-Mann couple’s daughters, Maude and Iris, are in the movie, too, playing young Sadie and Charlotte, respectively.

2013

Sep

GUN CRAZY By David Bianculli

This 1950 film noir classic stars Peggy Cummins as Annie Starr, a disturbingly modern dame, or moll: a woman who likes not only guns – something she shares with John Dall’s character of Barton – but the violence and danger that ofteb comes with them. There’s some daring photography in here, too.

2013

Sep

THE BLACKLIST By David Bianculli

In case you missed it earlier this week: Here’s a repeat of one of this season’s few new dramas worth sampling. James Spader plays Red, an FBI Most Wanted criminal who turns himself in with the stipulation that he gets to work with a raw recruit (played by Megan Boone) on other cases the government wants solved. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.

2013

Sep

THE WHITE QUEEN By David Bianculli

Included in tonight’s new episode: a masquerade ball in which one of the regal ladies comes with an escort who’s her mane man. He’s wearing the mask of a jungle cat – and I ain’t lion. And she’s wearing what may be the mask of a unicorn, though I barely see the point.

2013

Sep

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: I always get a little wistful when the season premiere of SNL approaches. Not because I’m all choked up at a show that’s now starting Season 39 – but because the original premiere of Saturday Night Live, way back in 1975, marked my first published newspaper column as a professional TV critic. So if SNL has been plugging along for nearly 40 years, welll, so have I. And for this year’s show, which has lots of cast changes afoot, the guest host is the progra

2013

Sep

MASTERCHEF JUNIOR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: On the surface, it sounds like a recipe mixing oil and water: the short-tempered, sharp-tongued Gordon Ramsay mentoring and judging a bunch of kids, ages 8 to 13, and putting them through their paces in the kitchen...

2013

Sep

GREAT PERFORMANCES: “THE HOLLOW CROWN” By David Bianculli

The latest TV version of William Shakespeare’s four-play history cycle, begun last week with Richard II, continues tonight Henry IV, Part 1...

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