The Hounds of Baskerville, this second of three mysteries in the Season 2 cycle of Sherlock is the weakest of the three – but that doesn’t mean that it’s not entertaining. It is, especially the twists that modernize Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Hound of the Baskervilles. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman star as, respectively, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Check local listings.

2012

May

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

So many characters barely escaped death in last week’s episode that you know tonight’s hour is going to be a killer. Or, at least, feature one, or more. There are escapes and power plays all over the place, each threatening to upend the status quo of the increasingly volatile kingdoms under the throne. Prisoners have escaped, subjects have defied their leaders – and mythical creatures have been stolen. “Find my dragons!” Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys orders tonig

2012

May

MAD MEN By David Bianculli

This season, Jessica Pare, as Megan Draper, has delivered some of the best moments in this or any season of Mad Men. She sang seductively to husband Don, in French, at a party that left him mortified and angry. When he was angered, again, by her dislike of the orange sherbet at Howard Johnson’s, she sarcastically shoveled spoonfuls of it it into her mouth like Harold defiantly ate his beets in Harold and Maude. Then, last week, after Don and company talked about hiring a group that sound

2012

May

A WAKE FOR 'AWAKE' By Eric Gould

I awoke Friday morning to write about this high-concept show — only to read what seemed a nightmare headline. But it was real. Awake had been cancelled by NBC after one season...

2012

May

1987: 'GIMME A BREAK' ENDS ITS SEVEN-SEASON RUN By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1987 marked the last telecast of NBC's Gimme a Break!. The sitcom, which ran seven seasons, starred Tony Award-winner Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief (Dolph Sweet) with three daughters, played by Kari Michaelson, Lauri Hendler and Lara Jill Miller...

2012

May

'AMERICA'S GOT TALENT' READY FOR SEASON SEVEN WITH HOWARD STERN By Ed Bark

Entering to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," Howard Stern considered it his due. "I'm the big star of the show. You'll see," he told a media gathering Thursday in New York, with the proceedings also piped out to interested out-of-town TV writers. The show is NBC's America's Got Talent, which launches Season 7 on Monday, May 14 with Stern replacing Piers Morgan and joining holdover judges Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne. Stern, 58, and now a self-described "elder statesman" of broad

2012

May

BLAZING SADDLES By David Bianculli

In my 2011 TVWW interview with Mel Brooks (which can be found HERE), he revealed that he’s been working, slowly but enthusiastically, on turning this 1974 comic Western into his next movie-to-Broadway musical. And the scene he described, with glee, was the campfire scene with the beans. Watch the movie again – and imagine having front-row seats for a musical version. As my dad used to sing, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit / the more you eat, the more you toot…”

2012

May

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 By David Bianculli

This is the end of the Harry Potter saga – the 2011 movie that pits brave young Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) face to face with the evil Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). Though, it should be noted, not necessarily nose to nose.

2012

May

DIABOLIQUE By David Bianculli

This 1955 French thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot is an early film noir triumph in the “deadlier than the male” sub-genre. Simon Signoret and Vera Clouzot star in a story of a woman who decides to plot to kill her unfaithful husband – and solicits her husband’s mistress as her co-conspirator.

2012

May

LOUIS C.K.: LIVE AT THE BEACON THEATRE By David Bianculli

Earlier this year, Louis C.K. eliminated the network-distribution middleman and offered a standup comedy concert special for sale directly over the Internet. That went well, but wasn’t the end of it. Tonight, FX presents the cable network premiere of that same special.

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