Charles Barkley returns as guest host, with musical guest Migos. Not to knock Migos, or add undue pressure, but Barkley has hosted SNL three other times over a 25-year span, and each time, his musical guests have killed it. That was true of Kelly Clarkson in 2012, and of Alicia Keys in 2010 – and it certainly was true, way back in 1993 the first time Barkley the NBA star hosted, when the musical guest was Nirvana.

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Mar

'FRONTLINE' TAKES ITS TURN IN THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN CESSPOOL By Ed Bark

Well, why not? Public television’s franchise investigative documentary series has decided to take a crack at Harvey Weinstein -- but comes away with nothing all that notably new on the slithering onetime Hollywood powerbroker...

2018

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FLINT TOWN By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Eight-part documentary about Flint, MI. focuses mostly on the police force – like an episode of COPS set in the former poison-water capital of the U.S., except taking place over a year or more. And that year was after the 2014 poisoning of the city’s water supply, and, over the course of its eight episodes, includes both a local and a presidential election.

2018

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MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

What do you do with the mad that you feel? Fred Rogers explains it all for you – and so does Daniel Tiger – in this week’s final paired double feature of the animated Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood series and its Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood vintage forebear. From the former, today’s episodes are “Daniel Gets Mad” and “Katerina gets Mad.” From the original Fred Rogers PBS series, it’s “Mad Feelings” – one of the most

2018

Mar

ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT By David Bianculli

It’s not unusual, especially in the era after the introduction of home video releases, for directors to go back to pet projects and reassemble them as official “Director’s Cuts.” The studio releasing these films, you’d think, might be opposed to playing with a movie’s history, contents and approach – but to a movie, an alternate release merely means a new stream of revenue, giving the most loyal fans something else to watch and purchase. Ridley Scott&rsq

2018

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ANNIE HALL By David Bianculli

TCM’s annual “31 Days of Oscar” celebration is almost over, because the Oscars, which are televised Sunday, are almost here. Tonight, though, TCM squeezes in a few more Academy Award-winning films – and the first two tonight, which are excellent films indeed, share another, more dubious distinction. Both of tonight’s prime-time movie offerings, starting with Woody Allen’s 1977 comedy classic Annie Hall, star actors who have been accused, during this recent, st

2018

Mar

FRONTLINE: "WEINSTEIN" By David Bianculli

This new installment of Frontline, reconstructing the long history of allegations swarming around film mogul Harvey Weinstein, gets most of its strength, as did the start of the #MeToo movement, by women coming forth to testify against him, in detailing their allegations of Weinstein’s previous mistreatment of them as young actresses or others in his powerful orbit. Some voices you’d expect to take part are not present here, which gives the documentary, like the case against Weinstei

2018

Mar

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

When ABC and Disney snatched up the Marvel universe, you knew it would lead to more marketing of all its related major franchise properties. But tonight’s move may have been less expected. In an obvious yet surprising move to bring Disney Channel viewers to ABC and its televised, ongoing Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, the network has cast Dove Cameron, its standout young Disney Channel star from both Liv and Maddie (a sitcom where she played both roles) and the Descendants t

2018

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s scheduled guests include former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and frequent MSNBC-consulting expert historian Jon Meacham. That’d make an interesting Real Time show right there – but what’s likely to make it a great one are the show’s opening interview guests. Usually, Maher restricts that space to presenting a single interviewee, but tonight he plans to present a twofer: David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, student survivors of last month’s mass shootin

2018

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KRAMER VS. KRAMER By David Bianculli

Here’s tonight’s other Best Movie winner in prime-time on TCM – and the other movie to star an actor recently accused of sexual misconduct or sexist abuse of power in Hollywood. That would be Dustin Hoffman, and, once again, you can have a heated argument about art vs. artists, because Kramer vs. Kramer, too, is a wonderful movie. And once again, I’d suggest focusing this time on the female co-star: It’s Meryl Streep, in 1979, in her first film role.. and she’

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