SEASON PREMIERE: This laid-back yet intensely honest talk show from LeBron James impressed me greatly during its first season, with just a few monthly installments. And it begins Season 2 with another enticing lineup: Maverick Carter, Anthony Davis, Antonio Brown, Jerrod Carmichael, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, and Jamie Foxx. The talk always begins with sports, but very shortly includes fame, race, and lots more.

2019

Mar

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new installment is a compilation show, piecing together some of the funniest and most entertaining moments from this season. Which means, minute for minute, it’s bound to be more entertaining than just about any TV show you can watch tonight.

2019

Feb

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Last week, we seemed to arrive, at last, to the moment when the “official” Joker was born – though it might take him tonight’s episode to be unwrapped from his bandages to reveal his new rictus smile. Meanwhile, we have other villains to deal with – many, in fact. Some old, some new, and some almost disturbingly familiar…

2019

Feb

TRADING PLACES By David Bianculli

This 1983 movie, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy as two people on polar-opposite ends of the social spectrum whose lives are slowly but surely reversed by outside forces, is a very funny film. But given recent headlines and scandals, let’s watch, this time, paying particular attention to one of Aykroyd’s playful screen disguises, in which he shows up… in blackface. Discuss among yourselves.

2019

Feb

BETTER THINGS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Pamela Adlon returns for Season 3, facing even more obstacles in her character’s single-mom life – one obstacle being that her daughters are getting older, which seems to keep complicating things.

2019

Feb

'WHISKEY CAVALIER' GIVES ABC A SPIRITED INTERNATIONAL SPY CAPER By Ed Bark

ABC clearly is very high on Whiskey Cavalier, even if Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t during his chainsaw massacre of the show’s very title during the network’s “upfront” presentation to advertisers last May...

2019

Feb

HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HEARING By David Bianculli

Today at 10 a.m. ET, on every news channel and conceivably on a bunch of other networks, Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump, is scheduled to testify live before the House Oversight Committee Hearing. Is this a significant day in the history of this presidency and this nation? Or just another day of swirling questions, allegations and conflicting arguments? By the end of the day, we may well know.

2019

Feb

THE MASKED SINGER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The most popular reality competition series in years, since the premiere of The Voice, presents its Season 1 finale tonight, unmasking its final, and thus most talented, singer. And yes, The Masked Singer already has been renewed for next season. And yes, I told you so… though, trying to pinpoint this show’s appeal (even to myself), I had a hard time explaining why.

2019

Feb

BIOGRAPHY: THE TRUMP DYNASTY By David Bianculli

Part 3 of 3. This concluding chapter of The Trump Dynasty brings the story of Donald Trump’s family up to date – up to a point. Because, as we all know, this family’s history is still being written. A significant chapter, in fact, is being written today, both in Washington, DC and halfway around the world in Hanoi…

2019

Feb

DOCUMENTARY NOW: “CO-OP” By David Bianculli

I’ve seen only two scenes from this new episode of the faux documentary series Documentary Now, but they’re both delightful in their audacity and, to the original inspiration, fidelity. (Can’t wait to see the entire show tonight.) Host Helen Mirren is presenting, in this installment, a 1970s-vintage (fake) film account of a cast recording for a (nonexistent) Broadway musical called Co-Op. The musical is about a group of characters inhabiting the same apartment building –

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