This PBS documentary series, charting the rise and fall of various dictators around the world, gets more informative, and unsettling, as it goes on. That’s because these dictators, regardless of their eras and cultures, all seem to make the same moves, stoke the same fears, and suppress the same elements of opposition. Tonight’s subject: Manuel Noriega. Check local listings.

2019

Jan

ELLEN'S GAME OF GAMES By David Bianculli

Tonight was supposed to be the State of the Union Address for 2019, delivered by President Donald Trump from the hallowed chamber of the House of Representatives. But no. For reasons you know already, that address has been postponed – latest news has it rescheduled, thanks to a joint agreement by Trump and House speaker Nancy Pelosi, for a week from tonight. But since the networks had cleared their prime-time decks tonight for coverage of the address and reactions to it, the last-second re

2019

Jan

INSIDE THE NFL By David Bianculli

This Sunday, the New England Patriots face the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. Tonight, the players and analysts at Inside the NFL preview the game – and spend a lot of time, surely, on the already infamous non-call in the fourth quarter of the Rams’ NFC championship game against the New Orleans Saints. Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman dove into Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis near the end of regulation play, while Lewis was in the end zone awaiting what would have been a go

2019

Jan

DRUNK HISTORY By David Bianculli

Switching sports, tonight’s Drunk History goes from football to baseball, with topics that include the “Black Sox” World Series scandal of 1919 (which, enveloping such players as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, is 100 years old this year!) and the team of female ballplayers who inspired the movie A League of Their Own.

2019

Jan

PBS’S 'INDEPENDENT LENS' GOES ON THE ROAD IN SEARCH OF THE KING By David Hinckley

It’s going to take more than one road trip to sort out the legacy of Elvis Presley. Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The King, which premieres Monday proves that point almost inadvertently...

2019

Jan

HBO'S 'DEADLINE ARTISTS' PROFILES OLD-SCHOOL COLUMNISTS By David Hinckley

The decline of print newspapers has cost us, among many other things, a unique subspecies: the New York tabloid columnist...

2019

Jan

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Game of Thrones, HBO’s biggest flagship series, is returning in a few months – and once it ends its cycle, another franchise, Westworld, will become the shiniest current jewel in HBO’s crown. So here’s a chance to look back at the original 1973 movie adaptation of Michael Crichton’s “amusement park gone crazy” fantasy novel. Richard Benjamin and James Brolin star, but the reason for the film’s iconic status – and the eventual reboot for telev

2019

Jan

BRESLIN AND HAMILL: DEADLINE ARTISTS By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Breslin is Jimmy Breslin, Hamill is Pete Hamill, and both of them are journalistic icons, specializing as no-nonsense, street-level, man-of-the-people chroniclers. Hamill eventually went from columnist to editor, helping to save The New York Post with what looked like imminent and unavoidable collapse in 1993. That was the last year I worked there as TV critic before shifting to The New York Daily News, and I remember a brief out-of-the-office meeting with Hamill at a local

2019

Jan

THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

This is episode three, and the psychic bloodsuckers, or whatever they are, continue to amass explore their paranormal strengths. But so does the young girl at the center of this story, who has been protected by a rogue government agent (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) – until she turned around, last week, and protected him. Tonight, keep your eyes on the imprisoned vamps, who find ways to roam freely without leaving their cells.

2019

Jan

I AM THE NIGHT By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new six-part miniseries was previewed by TNT last night after the same network’s live coverage of the Screen Actors Guild awards. Tonight the same premiere episode is repeated, but in the show’s regular Monday time slot. It stars Chris Pine as a washed-up newspaper reporter in 1965, who ends up reheating a cold case that winds its way all the way back to infamous Black Dahlia murder, and beyond. India Eisley co-stars as a teenager whose bloodline is crucial

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