If you want to honor both Black History Month and TV history, there’s no program better to watch this month than 1977’s Roots, the landmark ABC miniseries that remains, to this day, the most popular scripted TV show ever telecast. And today, beginning at 11 a.m. ET, Sundance Channel shows the original Roots in its entirety, in one convenient miniseries maxi-showing. LeVar Burton stars.

2019

Feb

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

John Legend continues to establish his territory, and display his competitive nature, as he becomes the latest judge to sit in a red chair on The Voice. He’s already lasted longer than anyone who’s sat in the Red Chair on BBC America’s The Graham Norton Show, and this is only the second night of the new Voice season. Then again, Norton’s Red Chair is less of a cozy, career-enhancing showcase than an unforgiving mechanical bull.

2019

Feb

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests, learning about their family trees, are activist filmmaker Michael Moore and actresses Laura Linney and Chloe Sevigny. Check local listings.

2019

Feb

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode concluded with the central family getting back together, after an entire season apart – and presented a simultaneous reunion of other members of the core mutant band of brothers and sisters. That’s the good news. The bad news? Another powerful mutant is aware of the reunion, and has decided it’s time to target them all – for death. Yes, it’s season finale showdown time…

2019

Feb

BIOGRAPHY: THE TRUMP DYNASTY By David Bianculli

Pt. 2 of 3. Henry Louis Gates Jr. isn’t the only one shaking the branches of a family tree tonight to see what falls out. So is this Biography miniseries, which continues tonight with the second of a three-part study of the Trumps.

2019

Feb

DRUNK HISTORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode of Drunk History is devoted to femmes fatale (or femme fatales – I’m not certain of the proper French plural). And one of those femmes is the infamous Mata Hari, the sexy spy whose story is told tonight, with the exotic Mata Hari played by Vanessa Hudgens, formerly of Disney’s High School Musical. Another tragic-sounding child star story -- from Disney to Drunk -- but this one's okay...

2019

Feb

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After a few cycles in which the judges’ chairs were filled equally by gender – two males, two females – tonight The Voice returns with the men judges enjoying a 3-1 advantage. In addition to series stalwarts Blake Shelton and the post-shirtless-Super Bowl Adam Levine, this new Voice cycle features first-time judge John Legend. Rounding out the panel, and representing the women’s perspective: Kelly Clarkson.

2019

Feb

PUBLIC ENEMY & LITTLE CAESAR By David Bianculli

Two of the most indelible and important gangster movies in cinema history are paired tonight, as a tommy-guns-blazing double feature. James Cagney starts it off at 8 p.m. ET with 1931’s Public Enemy, followed at 10 ET by another crime classic from the same year: Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. Pictured here: Cagney’s Public Enemy public service announcement for the Florida Citrus Commission (“A day without grapefruit is a day without sunshine”).

2019

Feb

THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

The vampires continue to get more aggressive all the time in this show – and last week, they avoided their own executions while incarcerated by successfully linking themselves, and the pain they felt, to some innocent humans. Looks like those psychic links are becoming more useful all the time – and not just for terrorizing the doctors who are experimenting on them and holding them captive.

2019

Feb

BIOGRAPHY: THE TRUMP DYNASTY By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: As if Donald Trump wasn’t under enough scrutiny at the moment. Tonight through Wednesday, A&E’s Biography presents a three-part special looking at the Trump family dynasty – starting at the beginning of its amassed fortune, which means, in this opening installment, going back several generations.

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