SERIES PREMIERE: No sooner did the mammoth ratings come back for the premiere episode of ABC’s reboot of Roseanne than networks scrambled to launch their own instant nostalgia series – as close to Roseanne as possible. NBC is first out of the gate, thanks to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, who had both the vision and the contacts (not to mention the broadcast rights) to revive, almost instantly, TV’s second most famous Roseanne: The wild-haired, cranky news commenta

2018

Apr

THE BIG BONG THEORY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: All the networks are going crazy for reboots and revivals at the moment, and CBS, which already has tasted success this year with its Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon, tonight launches another prequel spinoff – this one, appropriately, not just an extended flashback, but a time-traveling continuation of the Big Bang story line. Sheldon and Leonard, playing around one day after watching a marathon of time-travel movies, attempt to build a time machine with spare parts

2018

Apr

RUSSIAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The final season of FX’s The Americans began last week, surfacing at a time when tensions between the United States and Russia are more heightened than at any time since the end of the Cold War. FX’s sister network, FXX, is aware of the free publicity to be gained by any Russian-based programming – and since ABC has just revived Fox's former music-competition American Idol powerhouse, Fox is importing a spring cycle of the latest edition of the international ph

2018

Apr

CALL THE EX-WIFE By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Many British programs, between seasons, offer up one-shot specials on Christmas Day, presenting stand-alone episodes of some of England’s most popular long-running programs. Doctor Who is one such show given the holiday special treatment, and Call the Midwife is another. This latest special has been withheld from U.S. distribution until now, because PBS programmers feared it might be too bleak for the holidays. Its plot, which skips forward a year, finds several of the mi

2018

Apr

1440 MINUTES By David Bianculli

NETWORK LAUNCH: Blame this on Stormy Daniels, and on the media’s never-ending reverence for anniversaries. The CBS streaming network All Access has been unabashed and unapologetic from the start about cashing in on the CBS broadcast network’s inventory and legacy to lure subscribers to its pay site. It started with The Good Fight (a spinoff continuation of The Good Wife), and later this year will launch a reboot of The Twilight Zone, helmed by Jordan Peele. But with the massive ratin

2018

Apr

STEVEN BOCHCO, 1943-2018 By David Bianculli

Steven Bochco, the pioneering TV writer-producer who changed the content and direction of television with such landmark shows as NBC’s Hill Street Blues and ABC’s NYPD Blue, has died at age 74. He had as great an impact on TV as almost anyone in the history of the medium…

2018

Mar

THE X-FILES MARATHON By David Bianculli

The new iteration of The X-Files just left Fox for the season. But today on BBC America, the original incarnation of the show, from the 1990s, is rolled out in order, as BBC America welcomes Chris Carter’s long-running paranormal drama to its lineup. The pilot episode of The X-Files, with the show’s first incident involving a UFO, is televised at 11 a.m. ET, with other episodes from the show’s first and second season played in sequence, uninterrupted, until 7 p.m. ET Sunday.

2018

Mar

2018 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

If you’re looking for the Final Four, or even Monday’s championship game, on CBS this year, you won’t find it. This year, the biggest college basketball games of the year, tonight and Monday, are on TBS. The first of two games played today, starting at 6 p.m. ET on TBS, pits West No. 3 seed Michigan against South No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago. Only three other teams seeded eleventh ever made the Final Four (no No. 12 seeds got that far), and none of those teams advanced, so Loyola

2018

Mar

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS By David Bianculli

Because ABC is presenting an installment of American Idol on Easter Sunday, its annual telecast of this 1956 biblical epic is presented tonight instead. Charlton Heston stars as Moses, but don’t forget about Yvonne De Carlo. The future co-star of The Munsters plays the woman whose name launched a fleet of cosmetics stores: Sephora.

2018

Mar

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD By David Bianculli

TCM is devoting tonight’s schedule to biblical films, too, and begins the evening with this 1965 epic about the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Max von Sydow, who later wielded a crucifix in The Exorcist, stars as Jesus – and David McCallum (pictured), at this point already famous as Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plays Judas Iscariot.

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