SERIES RETURN: This game show, hosted by Howie Mandel, was a hit on NBC from 2006 to 2009, and operated as a sort of anti-quiz show. You didn’t need to know anything at all to play this game, just choose a series of numbered suitcases and hope for the best, with the most advantageous amounts hidden inside. Any number of evolved mammals could have played this game just as adeptly – and it didn’t take much skill to be one of the “briefcase models,” either, though that

2018

Dec

SYFY BRINGS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'NIGHTFLYERS' TO TELEVISION By David Hinckley

If Earth were dying and everyone on Earth knew it, you’d think humans might stop quarreling long enough to try saving it...

2018

Dec

MASS MEDIA By Eric Gould

You’re not the only one thinking that there are now too many scripted shows to follow – and that it seems like most of them are dropping by the hour on Netflix. This SNL commercial satire looks at whether it’s because twitchy executives at that company are greenlighting anything and everything...

2018

Dec

GARTH: LIVE AT NOTRE DAME By David Bianculli

This is the first music concert ever held at Notre Dame – the Indiana stadium, not the Paris cathedral. And it’s a live TV production starring country star Garth Brooks, and an event that seemingly could have been mounted decades ago. It was a concert held Oct. 20, so it was live then, but, despite the TV show's title, isn't live now. But here it is.

2018

Dec

ENEMIES: THE PRESIDENT, JUSTICE & THE FBI By David Bianculli

Part 3 of Enemies takes us to the Bill Clinton impeachment hearings of 1998. What possible parallels could we find 20 years later? Don’t worry – the question is rhetorical.

2018

Dec

ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA By David Bianculli

The acting in this new miniseries has been magnificent, and it’s early yet. Paul Dano and Benicio Del Toro star in this seven-hour miniseries, playing real-life convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015 with help from prison employee Joyce Mitchell, played by Patricia Arquette – whose characterization here is unforgettably human, sensitive, and unglamorous. Even the sex scenes, so far, have been unsettlingly devoid of not only p

2018

Dec

NIGHTFLYERS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin wrote his novella Nightflyers in 1980, and watched it turn into a lackluster movie version in 1987. The contract for the movie rights of that novella also included the TV rights – and three decades later, after the mega-success of Thrones, Syfy has inherited those rights and produced this new miniseries, which rolls out nightly over the next two weeks. It’s about scientists about a futuristic space vehicle, and the stars

2018

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

There’s been so much news on the President Trump front this week, it’s not unreasonable to expect, or at least hope for, a guest appearance by Alec Baldwin in the cold open of tonight’s new installment. Regardless, there are two appearances on whom you should be able to rely: Claire Foy is tonight’s scheduled guest host, and the musical guest – challenging standard typography and punctuation, in the style of Will.I.Am – is Anderson .Paak. He's the one at the f

2018

Dec

READ MY LIPS: H.W. KNEW THE POWER OF PRESIDENTIAL TV By Eric Gould

He wasn’t the best television president, but George H.W. Bush had his share of memorable TV moments that will live on, making him a significant player in the history of governing through television...

Posts 131-140 of 2056

13 14 15 16 17

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption