The continuing, long-running, occasionally super-violent battle between Andrew Lincoln’s Rick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan is spiking at one of its boiling points tonight. Rick, one of the primary heroes of this series, is more determined than ever to bring down Negan – and Negan, feeling the pressure from Rick’s multi-pronged military offensive, is more bloodthirsty than ever. And that’s a lot of bloodthirsty.

2018

Mar

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Being released from federal prison and given the top government job in homeland security would sound like good news for Saul (Mandy Patinkin). But now that he’s in charge, tensions on various fronts are mounting – and when people in trouble better call Saul, whom can he call?

2018

Mar

CRASHING By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: I thought last week’s episode, set at NACA and giving Pete (Pete Holmes) a new sense of direction, was the season finale. But I was wrong. (It happens.) The real Season 2 finale is tonight, opposite the Academy Awards, in an episode called “Roast Battle."

2018

Mar

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I wonder if John Oliver longs for the days when he wondered if there would be enough news of the week to fill an entire 30-minute news comedy and commentary show. Or is that just me?

2018

Mar

THE GOOD FIGHT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After one year on CBS Access, The Good Fight returns for a second run, with the first episode available today for streaming. And for Season 2, another familiar character from The Good Wife shows up, joining the show as a series regular. Audra McDonald, the Tony-winning musical actress, injects herself into this show’s plots as imposing adversary Liz Reddick-Lawrence. But now, on this series, whose side is she on?

2018

Mar

TRY AND ROMAINE CALM By Linda Donovan

Good or bad, there's nothing quite like watching Gordon Ramsay berate and castigate a roomful of chefs and those aspiring to join the culinary arts...

2018

Mar

DAVID OGDEN STIERS: AN APPRECIATION By David Hinckley

David Ogden Stiers was seen or heard in hundreds of television shows over 50 years and many viewers quite likely remember him from just one...

2018

Mar

ALIEN: COVENANT By David Bianculli

Last night, HBO showed, in prime time, Ridley Scott’s reworking of his original Alien movie, Alien: The Director’s Cut. Tonight, HBO shows one of the sequels, or prequels, spawned from this idea of the morphing killer creature from outer space. This 2017 sci-fi thriller stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup – and, of course, that slimy, slippery, deadly shape-shifter.

2018

Mar

PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: There’s actually a Making of the Blue Planet II special still to come, but tonight’s episode is the final, stunning installment of the Blue Planet II series proper. In it, we see Sir David Attenborough, on camera as well as narrating, explaining why our planet’s ecosystem has arrived at a precarious point. But it also shows examples of reversing the tide, so to speak, with tales of dedicated scientists and environmentally concerned lawmakers working around the gl

2018

Mar

31 DAYS OF OSCAR By David Bianculli

We’ve come to the end of TCM’s massive celebration of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies. The network’s "31 Days of Oscar” ends tonight, because the Academy Awards themselves begin tomorrow night. And on this last evening, “31 Days of Oscar” salutes, and presents, three sprawling, Oscar-winning epics about men who led a revolution. The action starts with the nonviolent social change of 1982’s Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley as the peaceful social act

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