This week’s episode, occupying two hours, has room for the onset of Nationals, and graduation – and even Lindsay Lohan, who guest stars as herself. She plays a guest judge on TV – as opposed to, say, Britney Spears, who next season on The X Factor will be a guest judge on TV.

2012

May

THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION By David Bianculli

CONCLUSION: Parts 3 and 4 of this four-part documentary are shown tonight, suggesting both the emotional costs and some pragmatic solutions for attacking the country’s obesity epidemic. I would have pointed out Parts 1 and 2 in yesterday’s Best Bets – but, ironically, it didn’t quite fit.

2012

May

THE PERFECT STORM By David Bianculli

George Clooney stars in this 2000 adventure film, a fact-based story that depends on special effects for its dramatic, aquatic climax, but solid acting for everything else. The outstanding supporting cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly, Cherry Jones and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

2012

May

GUN CRAZY By David Bianculli

This 1949 movie, featuring one of the most sinister femmes fatale in film noir (ooh la la, what French!), stars Peggy Cummins as a woman with a tiny voice, a tight wardrobe, and an obsession with guns and gunplay. John Dall plays the guy who gets snared in her web, and taken on a murder spree – in a script co-written by Dalton Trumbo, who worked through a front to get around the Communist witch hunters of that era.

2012

May

THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON IN SCOTLAND By David Bianculli

On tonight’s second episode of the show’s week in Scotland, Ferguson lands a genuinely important and newsworthy interview – with Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland. The interview was recorded at Arbroath Abbey, where the Declaration of Arbroath – an early model for the U.S. Constitution – was signed by Scottish nobles in 1320. All this, and Secretariat, too? No wonder I'm watching!

2012

May

FOX'S NEW FALL SHOWS: FIRST CLIPS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli

Fox was secure enough to announce only three new series for fall — one drama, two comedies. We have first-glimpse videos of all three, including the new series starring, and created by, Mindy Kaling of NBC’s The Office…

2012

May

THE NEW FALL LANDSCAPE - THE TVWW NETWORK SCHEDULE ROUND-UP By David Bianculli

As the networks release their schedules for the 2012-13 TV season, we'll collect them here — so you can return, as need be, to make sense of things and plan your upcoming viewing schedule.vAlthough, to be honest, time slots aren't as critical as they were in the old days. But finding the good shows quickly — that's even more important, and tricky, than ever...we aim to help...

2012

May

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Expect another piece of the puzzle to be revealed in this one-hour season finale, as we return to Barney’s wedding and, presumably, learn the identity of the woman he’s marrying. And perhaps, as a bonus, we’ll get some hint about the future bride of Ted’s as well. His poor kids have been waiting for years for him to wrap up that story – and, unlike us, they already know the identity of their mom.

2012

May

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Normally, I wouldn’t highlight or recommend the return of this talent series as anything worth noting – but this is different, and this is exactly why NBC has made room for a new judge at its center. Piers Morgan is out, Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne remain, but this franchise will propel forward, or stall ignominiously, based on the reception viewers afford new judge Howard Stern, diving aggressively into mainstream pop culture. My guess? He’ll do just fi

2012

May

AMERICAN MASTERS: 'JOHNNY CARSON: KING OF LATE NIGHT' By David Bianculli

He’s been gone from late night, and from the center of pop culture, for two decades now, yet Johnny Carson has not been, and will never be, dethroned as the King of Late Night. This new two-hour documentary explains why – and gets close to explaining the man himself. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog HERE. Check local listings.

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