SPECIAL: This is the second consecutive year that AARP the Magazine is bestowing awards, shown on PBS’s Great Performances, of “Movies for Grownups” – serious honors for (mostly) serious movies. Since this is the second year for this particular awards show event, it can now officially, and accurately, be considered an annual event. And tonight, the Career Achievement Award goes to… Shirley MacLaine. Check local listings.

2019

Feb

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s scheduled lineup to dissect the week – and what a week it’s been, again – includes Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, musician John Legend, conservative columnist David Frum and political strategist Paul Begala, who’s funny enough to give Maher a run for his money, and his punch lines.

2019

Feb

TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR 2019 - CLOONEY, 'CATCH-22,' AND MORE FROM HULU By Roger Catlin

There was an extra reminder at a well-attended session of the TV Critics Association (TCA) 2019 Winter Press Tour that pictures were not allowed...

2019

Feb

THE PACIFIC: IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN COOK WITH SAM NEILL By David Hinckley

The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook With Sam Neill, a six-part series revisiting James Cook’s historic exploratory voyage to the South Seas in the late 18^th century, doesn’t play out exactly as the Cook expedition used to be taught in school...

2019

Feb

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

This series is another example of how TV series actually can become reinvigorated once they announce their own impending conclusions. With the end in sight, Gotham can stop the teasing, and actually deliver on its premise and promise: presenting a much more involved take on the origin stories of the heroes and villains in the Batman universe. With only so many episodes left until Gotham is over, the good and bad guys – and good and bad girls – are beginning to approach their more fam

2019

Feb

'WEIRD CITY' BRINGS BIG NAMES TO YOUTUBE PREMIUM By David Hinckley

Weird City lives up to its name. It’s set in a city and it’s weird. The half-hour anthology series, premiering Wednesday on the streaming service YouTube Premium, sets a series of stories in the future city of Weird...

2019

Feb

WEIRD CITY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: When Jordan Peele was one of the writers and co-stars of Comedy Central’s brilliantly funny sketch series Key & Peele, one of the other writers was Charlie Sanders. Now Peele and Sanders have reteamed for this new, six-episode anthology series, which is like a Black Mirror Lite – whimsical rather than tragic, but still set in a futuristic world whose ideas intersect and overlap. In Weird City, there’s a physical dividing line between the Haves and the Have-

2019

Feb

THE WORLD'S BEST By David Bianculli

This is episode three of this new midseason global competition series – and so far, I’m still watching. The judges haven’t really impressed me as much as the contestants, with their own contributions and observations and reactions – but host James Corden already has.

2019

Feb

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA By David Bianculli

Epic films don’t get much more epic than this. David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece of visual artistry stars Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the British officer who led Arab tribes against the Turks in WWI. A century or so later, and it’s worth reflecting on the different dynamics, and shifting borders and country names, since then. And the better your home TV is, the more magnificent this movie will look.

2019

Feb

THE MASKED SINGER By David Bianculli

Here’s another competition series that’s popped up and attracted attention at midseason. And recently, the rules change a bit: Instead of individual competitions to keep from being unmasked, now it’s a group challenge. And last week, the most recently unmasked singer was the Raven… who turned out to be Ricki Lake.

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