Kiefer Sutherland was happy to talk up Touch, which returns October 26 on Fox. The big news? Maria Bello of the late Prime Suspect is joining the cast...

2012

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REMEMBERING SHERMAN HEMSLEY By Ed Bark

Sherman Hemsley, the broadly comic actor whose inimitable rants made The Jeffersons one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid '70s to mid '80s, died Tuesday at age 74...

2012

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HISTORY DETECTIVES By David Bianculli

Last week, this series stirred up controversy by presenting a segment about a guitar that may or may not have been owned by Bob Dylan, and played the night he “went electric.” This week, the show investigates another controversial find – but this time the controversy is over history, not provenance. It’s a 78 r.p.m. record (kids, ask your grandparents to explain both “78 r.p.m.” and “record”) from the KKK label – and yes, that label stands fo

2012

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PYGMALION By David Bianculli

What would My Fair Lady be like without music? Well, that’s the way it started – with George Bernard Shaw’s comic play, which was adapted into a film in this 1938 version. Leslie Howard stars, with Wendy Hiller as his cockney pupil.

2012

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THE GODFATHER LEGACY By David Bianculli

Here’s a two-hour special devoted to the impact of the Godfather films on popular culture – a great idea for a TV special. But one of our TVWW writers, Noel Holston, has an even better idea, for a book: one that examines all the movies, TV shows, songs, poems, artwork and other things inspired by and alluding to The Wizard of Oz. Interested book editors, please contact us, and we’ll get the word to him. It’s an offer you can’t refuse … which takes us full cir

2012

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NY MED By David Bianculli

Terence Wrong’s latest medical documentary series spends part of tonight’s show focusing on a familiar TV face: Dr. Oz., who already appeared in this series’ initial episode. But in this light, in his regular medical habitat, he comes off like a doctor, not a TV guy – though, when he leads the camera into the staff lounge to check out what they’re eating, it’s an ambush segment worthy of Mike Wallace – if Wallace wore scrubs.

2012

Jul

FRONTLINE: "ALASKA GOLD" By David Bianculli

The first five minutes of this new documentary extol the virtues, the beauty, the rarity, and the environmental and ecosystem value of the salmon spawning in Bristol Bay, in the southwest corner of Alaska. The remaining 55 minutes reveal the dangers posed by an international consortium that has purchased mineral rights to 330 miles of state land, and plans to extract silver, gold and other minerals in a mining operation that could threaten, if not destroy, the natural system in the region. Check

2012

Jul

'THE X FACTOR' — OLD AND NEW By Bill Brioux

Last summer, the buzz about The X Factor made it sound like the biggest thing to hit TV in years. Then it arrived and, well, shrunk...

2012

Jul

IS JLO REALLY LEAVING 'IDOL'? NIGEL LYTHGOE ISN'T SO SURE By Bill Brioux

Nigel Lythgoe fueled rumors that Jennifer Lopez may not be leaving American Idol, but Fox entertainment president later confirmed JLo's exit and announced a new Idol judge: Mariah Carey...

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