SEASON FINALE: This series ends for the season tonight, but in an unusual way that deserves some attention, and planning: Instead of one episode in its normal time slot, Girls is closing its latest season with a double-header of fresh episodes, beginning at 10 ET.

2016

Apr

JACKIE ROBINSON By David Bianculli

What a conveniently scheduled same-week repeat this is. Tonight at 7 ET, you can watch both installments of Jackie Robinson, the newest nonfiction film from the Ken Burns quality TV factory, as a baseball doubleheader. This touching and informative four-hour biography, in this particular broadcast, can be gobbled up in its entirety – along with as many hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts and Cracker Jacks you care to bring along for the experience. Check local listings.

2016

Apr

CONFIRMATION By David Bianculli

TELEMOVIE PREMIERE: It’s been 25 years since Clarence Thomas, going through the confirmation process in his quest to become to next U.S. Supreme Court Justice, hit an unexpected, unprecedented roadblock when a law professor named Anita Hill, a former assistant to Thomas, testified against him, describing such matters of alleged misconduct as… well, sexual harassment of a very memorable kind. In this made-for-TV dramatization by HBO, Kerry Washington from Scandal stars as Anita Hill,

2016

Apr

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN By David Bianculli

TCM presents an unusually goofy double feature tonight: two horror-movie comedies that know enough about the subject they’re spoofing to have some very smart fun with them. First up: Mel Brooks and his 1974 black-and-white Young Frankenstein comedy classic, photographed as lovingly as the James Whale originals. Gene Wilder is perfect as the young doctor, and Peter Boyle is better than perfect, somehow, as his creature, especially when he’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

2016

Apr

THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS By David Bianculli

Next up in TCM’s double feature of horror comedies: Roman Polanski’s 1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers, a film that’s as much silent slapstick as atmospheric spookiness. Polanski has a supporting role, and Jack MacGowran stars as the vampire-hunting old professor – but the movie is stolen by young actress Sharon Tate. Two years later, as Polanski’s girlfriend, she was murdered – one of the victims of the gruesome slayings by the Charles Manson family in 1969.

2016

Apr

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who used to be an SNL regular cast member back in 1982-85, returns to the show to host for the third time. (She has hosted previously in 2006 and 2007.) After this, two more times, and she’ll earn her SNL Five-Timers blazer. The musical guest this week: Nick Jonas.

2016

Apr

HILL-THOMAS FACEOFF REPRISED IN HBO'S STURDY 'CONFIRMATION' By Ed Bark

Lest it be forgotten, Clarence Thomas beat O.J. Simpson’s attorneys to the punch in victoriously playing the “race card"...

2016

Apr

ANNUAL ‘BARKFEST’ WILL TELL US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR DOGS By David Hinckley

In the Facebook age, some of us might want to be a little more careful about how we friend our dogs...

2016

Apr

UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: On a very slow Friday night, the Season 2 premiere of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt qualifies as the evening’s very best bet. And if you like what you see, you can keep going, because Netflix is dropping the entirety of Season 2 today. Ellie Kemper stars, again, as the kidnapped cultist suddenly resurfacing in New York.

2016

Apr

KEN BURNS' JAZZ By David Bianculli

Part 5. It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing – and tonight’s installment of Jazz is all about swing – and how some of the era’s bandleaders treated their musicians and singers, on both ends of the non-musical scale. Case in point: Benny Goodman. Check local listings.

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