This series returned with a new episode last week, on a new night, with so little advance notice and promotion that it slipped by me entirely. Not this time. The Graham Norton Show, still my favorite current talk show, is now shown on BBC America on Monday nights, so adjust your DVRs and viewing schedules accordingly. Tonight’s guests include Will Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Zeta Jones and (no relation – I think) Toby Jones.

2016

Feb

LOST GIRL By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: The final season of this sci-fi series picks up for its second and final half, with Bo fighting an ancient evil, with the usual world as we know it in the balance. The terrain is familiar, but the characters on this show are unusually feisty – starting with the protagonist Bo. Did I mention she’s a succubus?

2016

Feb

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA By David Bianculli

Tonight the A&E Networks continue with their miniseries version of War & Peace – but if you’re in the mood for an actual epic costume drama, go here instead. This 1962 David Lean movie, starring Peter O’Toole as a British officer who fights alongside Arab soldiers in what eventually would be known as WWI, is spectacularly beautiful, sweeping in both scope and photography. And as a modern-day bonus, the lands where the action is set have since been the scene of a whole s

2016

Feb

COURTNEY B. VANCE OF FX'S 'THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON': WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA TODAY By David Hinckley

If America had paid attention to what was really going on at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, says Courtney B. Vance, we might not be suffering the trouble and the death we see in our cities two decades later...

2016

Jan

'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 5: GOOD LORD, A GAME-CHANGER By David Hinckley

Dinner at Downton Abbey has gotten rowdy over the years, but it never got scary until Sunday night, when Lord Grantham...

2016

Jan

'HORACE AND PETE': A NEW MODEL FOR TV — AND LOUIS C.K.? By David Hinckley

With television drama, it’s not often that we get to say OMG, look what just splashed down. With Louie C.K.’s new Horace and Pete, we do. It's a 67-minute drama that C.K. posted on his website Saturday, without advance notice...

2016

Jan

IT'S O.J. ALL OVER AGAIN: THE NEW AND SPELLBINDING FIRST EDITION OF FX'S 'AMERICAN CRIME STORY' By Ed Bark

What’s a hotter TV commodity than even the presidential candidate debates? That would be true crime, whether scripted or otherwise. Not that it ever really went away...

2016

Jan

GREASE: LIVE! By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: NBC is the network that revived the concept of live TV musical specials, with The Sound of Music and others, but it’s the Fox network that may solidify the trend. At the end of the year, it’s presenting a live telecast of The Rocky Horror Show, starring transgender Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox. And tonight, Fox presents a revised stage version of one of the most durable musicals of the past two generations: Grease, starring Julianne Hough as Sandy (pictured),

2016

Jan

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

This documentary series launched itself at the perfect time, as each week leading up to tomorrow’s Iowa caucus seems to have been more momentous, and more unpredictable. And now, we’re on the brink of the first votes cast in the race for the 2016 presidential nominees – with The Circus covering, among other things, the Donald Trump-less Republican debate.

2016

Jan

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

All season, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has run afoul of one particular judge – and tonight, she does it again.

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