NBC's exclusive rights to the 2012 Olympics, for which it paid a bit over a billion dollars, hasn't stopped rival media outlets from presenting their own views of the Summer Games...

2012

Aug

PALEY CENTER INVITES FANS TO SEE 'TELEVISION OUT OF THE BOX' By Bill Brioux

Ever want to sit in the Seinfeld Monk's Diner booth or check out Friends' Central Perk? Size up the wardrobes of Warner Bros. stars? Well, now you can...

2012

Aug

RUSSELL BRAND AND CHARLIE SHEEN DISCUSS THEIR FX SHOWS AT TCA By Bill Brioux

Russell Brand and Charlie Sheen met critics at Thursday's Television Critics Association press events. Brand was Brand, and surprisingly, Sheen wasn't Sheen...

2012

Aug

RECALLING A CONVERSATION WITH, AND THE TV WORK OF, GORE VIDAL By Ed Bark

Gore Vidal was very seldom warm to the touch — and only during highly irregular weak moments...

2012

Aug

2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS By David Bianculli

It’s a relatively quiet day for the Olympics, except for some high-profile swimming events, which will be packaged as the prime-time entrée for evening viewers. For how the Olympics are doing in the ratings, and how various subgroups of viewers (and non-viewers) are reacting, read Ed Bark’s new Uncle Barky’s Bytes column HERE. And for a reaction to the often inane questions reporters are asking during the Summer Games, read Eric Gould’s new Cold Light Reader column

2012

Aug

ALMOST FAMOUS By David Bianculli

Cameron Crowe wrote and directed this somewhat autobiographical account of his years as an underage journalist for Rolling Stone. And it’s so heartfelt and pure and honest, it’s a delight — as when the passengers on a touring rock bus begin singing spontaneously to Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “Tiny Dancer." It’s a small but perfect moment, in a film loaded with them. Patrick Fugit stars as Crowe’s alter ego, Kate Hudson became a movie star thanks

2012

Aug

BURN NOTICE By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode ended with a slow-motion surprise death. Two of them, actually. And this week, the ramifications of those deaths are explored, as Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) deals with grief and turns to a just-freed Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) for solace – and help.

2012

Aug

THE NEWSROOM By David Bianculli

Sunday’s episode, repeated here tonight, shone its spotlight on Olivia Munn as economics TV reporter Sloan Sabbith – and as unimpressed as I was with Munn as a fake TV correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, that’s how impressed I was with her, playing a “real” TV correspondent, in this latest episode. Which, by the way, was an excellent episode, so people who gave up on Sorkin’s latest show early would be wise to revisit it. And speaking of So

2012

Aug

LOUIE By David Bianculli

In this week’s show, Louie (Louis C.K.) is in charge of feeding a kid temporarily under his care, and goes through everything in his pantry and refrigerator without getting a positive vote. “I’ll die,” the kid tells Louie when Louie suggests a particular type of food. And with this series, you can’t be sure he’s not exaggerating.

2012

Aug

AARON SORKIN STARES DOWN CRITICS OF HBO'S 'NEWSROOM' By Bill Brioux

The Emmy- and Oscar-winning screenwriter closed HBO's sessions at the TCA press tour Wednesday by defending his new drama The Newsroom...

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