SEASON PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. The 10th cycle of shows for this Gordon Ramsay series concludes its two-night season premiere tonight, with contestants both enthused and freaked out by the grand prize: a key position at the chef’s Las Vegas steak restaurant at the Paris Hotel. This season, in other words, the steaks are high.

2012

Jun

CONCERT FOR THE QUEEN: A DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION WITH KATIE COURIC By David Bianculli

Packaged as A Special Edition of 20/20, with Katie Couric somehow muscling her way into the title, this two-hour prime-time special is a concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended the throne in 1962. She was there for the first Royal Command Performance by the Beatles, when John Lennon cheekily, and famously, asked the people in the cheaper seats to clap, and the others to just rattle their jewelry. And she’ll be in attendance at this concert

2012

Jun

TRUE BLOOD By David Bianculli

Season 4 repeats, an advance primer or reminder before Sunday’s launch of Season 5, continue tonight. Layafette goes on a quest to find himself, and Sookie goes on one, too – to find the missing Jason.

2012

Jun

STORAGE WARS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s another slow night of TV, but I admit to more interest than usual in this particular reality show anyway. Season three begins with the same odd but effective draw as the others: a mobile version of Let’s Make a Deal, were optimistic yet seasoned bargain hunters bid sight mostly unseen on the contents of various storage lockers.

2012

Jun

THE GLEE PROJECT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last year on this unexpectedly interesting reality competition TV series, two winners won recurring roles on last season of Glee. One was Samuel Larsen, a home-schooled Christian who entered McKinley High, and the other was Damian McGinty, as Rory Flanagan, a talented exchange student from Ireland. For Season 2 of The Glee Project, however, producers have insisted there will be only one winner – so expect the competition to be serious from the start for these 14 new hopefu

2012

Jun

2012 STANLEY CUP FINALS By David Bianculli

The first two games of this year’s Stanley Cup hockey championships have been decided in overtime, the first time that’s happened in more than 60 years. The Los Angeles Kings, in search of the first Cup in its franchise history, managed to notch both victories, and on the home ice of the New Jersey Devils, yet. So tonight the Kings have home-ice advantage as well as momentum – but if this is to become a classic Stanley Cup series, this is the game in which the Devils will find

2012

Jun

HELL'S KITCHEN By David Bianculli

This is the 10th cycle of shows for Hell’s Kitchen (at some point, Fox should provide a running tally of volatile chef Gordon Ramsay’s favorite expletives and insults: how many “stupid cow” utterances has he made by now?). The prize, this time around, is running Ramsay’s steak restaurant at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas – so expect the treatment of meat to be paramount among this season’s tests. Like most competition shows that have gone on this lon

2012

Jun

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX By David Bianculli

Here’s another impressive movie from 1939, the year that may have been the most bountiful in cinema history. (Also released that year: The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton, and so many more. I rest my case.) In this historically fanciful account, adapted from the Maxwell Anderson play Elizabeth the Queen, Bette Davis plays Queen Elizabeth I, who engages in a complex romantic affair with the

2012

Jun

TRUE BLOOD By David Bianculli

Season 5 of this delectable summer series begins this weekend on HBO – so if you want to get caught up, or refreshed, by all that happened last year, HBO Signature is presenting mini-clumps of True Blood Season 4 shows this week, beginning tonight at 9 with 2011’s season premiere. Let there be Blood…

2012

Jun

THE VIRGIN QUEEN By David Bianculli

More Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I: At 10 p.m. ET, Davis reprises her regal role in 1955’s The Virgin Queen, with Sir Walter Raleigh given a more central focus – and played, in this movie, by Richard Todd. And watch for a key supporting role in The Virgin Queen, too – specifically, a young Joan Collins as Beth Throgmorton.

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