SEASON PREMIERE: After preseason visits with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys, NFL Films takes its cameras down to Florida, the same year Showtime’s The Franchise trained its cameras on baseball’s Miami Marlins. But Hard Knocks is focusing on the Miami Dolphins, who have logged three straight losing seasons, and who have ripped out my heart more times than the women I’ve known. But the Dolphins, when I was young, also gave me that perfect season, so they’ve g

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TO SIR, WITH LOVE By David Bianculli

Another “spider-web” movie – and this one, released in 1967, may well have been the movie that made me want to grow up to be a teacher. Sidney Poitier stars, as a proud black teacher who takes charge of a London classroom full of unruly Eastenders. This movie was adapted for the screen by James Clavell, who later wrote Shogun, and made stars of three of Poitier’s more attractive students: Lulu, who performed the movie’s title song, Judy Geeson, and Suzy Kendall. Hmm

2012

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NBC OFFERS A SNEAK PEEK AT 'GO ON' By Ed Bark

NBC so far has done an odd job of hiding the fact that the new Matthew Perry sitcom, Go On, is being sneak-previewed following the network's Wednesday Olympics coverage...

2012

Aug

2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS By David Bianculli

NBC’s coverage of the Olympics was very satisfying in some spots yesterday, and annoyingly jingoistic in others. Today, though, at 2:45 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network, it’s a particularly noteworthy semifinal game in women’s soccer. As Craig Ferguson would say, “It’s a great day for America” – because two of our continent’s representatives, The USA and Canada, square off, with the winner advancing to the finals and a shot at the 2012 gold medal.

2012

Aug

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS By David Bianculli

Here’s my most recently produced “spider-web” movie – a film I seem to watch on TV every time it’s televised. And this time, I’ll pay particular attention, and ask you to do the same, to Alison Pill, in a small but vibrant supporting role. Currently, on HBO’s The Newsroom, she plays TV associate producer Maggie Jordan – but in this 2011 Woody Allen film, as one of several wild characters encountered in Paris by Owen Wilson’s wandering w

2012

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TOP GEAR By David Bianculli

This 2010 episode of this charming British import stars former Star Trek: The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart, who is instantly identified as the most famous guest to ever appear on the long-running car-enthusiast program. “This must be a terrible show, then,” Stewart shoots back. But it isn’t. And when Stewart straps himself behind the wheel for a timed test run, it’s an episode you’ll watch to watch to the finish – his and the program’s. Make it s

2012

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A FEW GOOD MEN By David Bianculli

I’m not sure, frankly, why this 1992 movie, written by Aaron Sorkin based on his own Broadway play, is being shown on Country Music Television. (Maybe because a few of its good men sport Southern accents?) But here it is, a movie that’s always a treat to watch – especially for Jack Nicholson’s scene-stealing, momentum-gathering supporting role. Tom Cruise stars.

2012

Aug

THE CLOSER By David Bianculli

This is the penultimate episode of The Closer, and it features an episode, and an investigation, that sets the stage for some major confrontations, decisions, and changes. Kyra Sedgwick, as Brenda, is being given the opportunity to go out in style – and, more important, completely in character. Good for her. Good for The Closer.

2012

Aug

JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF MYTH WITH BILL MOYERS By David Bianculli

This 1988 PBS presentation is so powerful, and so inspirational, it has the potential to change your life, and the way you look at it...

2012

Aug

LESSON FROM 'SLEEPER CELL' 2005-06 By Diane Werts

Sikh? Muslim? As another much-needed lesson on "foreign" religions arrives through the deadly attack outside Milwaukee, we present a prescient moment from TV...

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