Last week’s Season 2 premiere took place with Daniel (Aden Young), the death row inmate freed after 19 years in prison because of overturned evidence, in a coma after his brutal beating. In this episode, he emerges from that coma – if not, there’s no series, so don’t yell “Spoiler Alert!” – and faces an even more traumatic return to society than when he first was released from prison.

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Jun

NY MED By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This ABC medical documentary summer series returns tonight, with another set of intertwined stories observing patients, physicians and caregivers at specific New York area hospitals. As with previous outings, the stories are told patiently and artfully, and everywhere the camera turns, it captures humanity at its most unvarnished. This is not reality TV – it’s reality, on TV. And this season, I set a personal record, and didn’t cry until midway through the seco

2014

Jun

ABC’S ‘NY MED’: JUST WHAT THE TV DOCTOR ORDERED By David Bianculli

ABC’s NY Med is the type of nonfiction series that makes you appreciate life. And at the same time, it also succeeds at making you appreciate television…

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Today’s games decide the fates of the teams in Groups E and F. On ESPN, play begins at noon ET with Group F’s Nigeria vs. Argentina. Argentina already has earned its way into the upcoming knockout round, while Nigeria can advance if it earns a win, or a draw, against Argentina, which has plenty of reasons to save some resources for the next game. Then, at 4 p.m. ET, ESPN presents Group E’s Ecuador vs. France match. If France wins or draws, it will win the group and advance to k

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Meanwhile, over on ESPN2, concurrent games are played from each group. At noon ET, the remaining two teams in Group F, the ones not playing on ESPN, are shown here: Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Iran. Only Iran still has a chance to advance, and it needs to win this game, and hope that Nigeria loses to Argentina – and even then, Iran still has to score enough goals to win a tiebreaker. Then, at 4 p.m. ET, ESPN2 presents Group E’s Honduras vs. Switzerland, two teams that are still possib

2014

Jun

NATURE: "FABULOUS FROGS" By David Bianculli

Sir David Attenborough is the presenter of this lighthearted new documentary, which means he’s on camera, not just narrating. And whenever Attenborough is on camera, it’s must-see nature TV, because he’s positively peerless in both his knowledge and his enthusiasm about the natural world. In Fabulous Frogs, he reveals that frogs were the first animals he kept as a kid –and the ease with which he lets them crawl all over him, and gently strokes them to coerce them to croak

2014

Jun

DILLINGER By David Bianculli

Lawrence Tierney stars as tough-guy gangster John Dillinger in this crisp 1945 crime drama, which co-stars the lovely Anne Jeffreys. Tierney plays a good bad guy, and his toughness only got tougher with age: Almost 50 years after starring in this crime classic, he co-starred in another, as the growly Joe, who organizes the gangster squad for 1992’s Reservoir Dogs.

2014

Jun

WILFRED By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: I’ve never been totally sold on this series, about a man whose pet is either a dog or a man in a dog suit – but those who have will want to know that it returns tonight for its fourth and final season. And that, though it was launched on the FX network, it now appears on that channel’s sister network, FXX.

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

After yesterday’s quartet of games, we now know four of the teams moving on to the round of 16: from Group A, host country Brazil (sigh of relief, everyone in Brazil) and Mexico, and from Group B, the Netherlands and Chile. Today we learn the World Cup fates of teams in Groups C and D, in games that are played simultaneously, for each group, on two different cable networks. ESPN, at noon ET, presents Group D’s Italy vs. Uruguay (pictured), two teams that have split their previous gam

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Meanwhile, over on ESPN2, the noon ET game is Group D’s Costa Rica vs. England, which is a sad sight for England fans: Their team already has been eliminated, and Costa Rica has surprised everyone by winning the group and qualifying already, so this game means nothing. Except for pride, which the British have in abundance. Then, at 4 p.m. ET, the game is Group C’s Greece vs. Ivory Coast. If Ivory Coast wins, it advances to the knockout round. If Greece wins – and it would have

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