CBS’ Limitless is fairly quick on the heels of the 2011 film that starred Bradley Cooper as a stressed but empowered user of the super brain-boosting drug NZT...

2015

Sep

I SAID IT BEFORE, AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN 38 YEARS LATER: I LOVE 'THE MUPPETS' By David Bianculli

ABC’s The Muppets, which launches Tuesday night at 8 ET, is the best new show of the fall season – and the best Muppet show since the syndicated The Muppet Show in 1976….

2015

Sep

'THE MUPPETS' GIVES ABC A BIG BRAND NAME IN A CHALLENGING "MOCKUMENTARY" SETTING By Ed Bark

The Walt Disney Company has owned the rights to The Muppets since early 2004. So what took so long to turn Jim Henson’s timeless creations into the stars of a new weekly TV show?...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'SCREAM QUEENS' CAN LEAVE A NASTY TASTE By Ed Bark

Chanel Oberlin has a mouth on her. And it spews hatred, racism, put-downs and self-entitlement that could do more harm to “impressionable” viewers than the recurring killings and other brutalities in Scream Queens...

2015

Sep

THE PROBLEMS THAT CHALLENGE THE REBIRTH OF 'HEROES REBORN' By Alex Strachan

No new series has it easy, not even when it’s a sequel with a direct creative line to the original. Of all the new series to debut this week, perhaps none has it quite as tough as Heroes Reborn...

2015

Sep

THE MUPPETS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: What I said yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross in my fall TV preview there still holds: “This week, if you see only one new TV series – and, to be honest, that’s about all you should see – make it The Muppets.” Even Pepe the Shrimp made me laugh, and the fact that Kermit’s new brown-haired receptionist girlfriend bears a resemblance not only to Miss Piggy, but to Jenna Fischer’s Pam from NBC’s The Office, is the so

2015

Sep

SCREAM QUEENS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Emma Roberts, who’s stood out in the most recent American Horror Story reboot, stars in this new series, also from Ryan Murphy. It’s also envisioned as an anthology series, reimagining itself after each season, which in this case is planned at 13 episodes. It’s set at a college sorority, where a bloody and long-buried tragedy from 20 years before returns to haunt Roberts’ Chanel Oberlin and the rest of her snooty sorority sisters, as well as the geeky new

2015

Sep

BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS By David Bianculli

When this series premiered last week, we didn’t know what to expect. Now we do, sort of -- and one thing I expect is to have a little more variety, and comedy, and be a little less frantic. This week’s guest announcer: Alec Baldwin. And if Harris doesn’t take advantage of Baldwin’s ease with live TV from all those guest spots on Saturday Night Live, this show will be making a big mistake.

2015

Sep

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER By David Bianculli

This second episode makes it official: Although the men carry most of the swords in this new series about 14th-century Welsh uprisings, the women are by far the most interesting characters. For starters, there’s Katey Sagal as the witchlike healer and seer known as Annora – and then there’s the woman who pretends to be the wife of the executioner, for reasons that are either compassionate or crazy. Too early to tell, but it’s fun to watch.

2015

Sep

LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

When Stephen Colbert appeared in front of TV critics at summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, he regretted that he was off the air until September, while Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was making headlines. Colbert wasted no time in poking fun at Trump on the opening night of Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and hasn’t really let up since. But tonight, his special guest is Donald Trump himself. And remember: Colbert will be talking to, and interviewing, Tru

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