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2015
Apr
11
2015 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
CBS provides four offers of coverage from the third round of the 2015 Masters at Augusta, and it’ll be fun. TV coverage begins just minutes after the two-day leader by 5 strokes, 21-year-old Jordan Spieth, begins his round. But it won’t be long, promise, before CBS provides tape-delayed coverage of how and what Tiger Woods has been doing on Day 3. He made the weekend cut by scoring an overall 2 under par on the first two rounds – putting him way back in a tie for 19th place, bu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
11
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST By David Bianculli
 
 
For this 2014 entry in the film franchise that first established Marvel as a movie powerhouse, the storylines are split between past and present, as in The Godfather Part II. Except here, in this genre, what happens as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels into the past can affect the future significantly. In fact, everyone’s counting on it. Meanwhile, this new film gives a much more prominent role to one of its cast members, who has become more of a movie star every year, largely because of he
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
11
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE By David Bianculli
 
 
This 1974 character study stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow with a young son, with dreams of being a singer and the reality of working in a down-home local diner. Diane Ladd plays a sassy waitress named Flo, Vic Tayback plays the diner owner named Mel – and if that’s starting to sound a bit familiar, it’s because this movie inspired the long-running CBS sitcom Alice, which starred Linda Lavin in the title role, and featured Polly Holliday as Flo, and Tayback, reprising his movie r
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
11
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
BBC America has made it trickier to ascertain precisely which installment of this show will air each Saturday – conflicting information makes it tough to pin down for the moment. But I think, and I hope, that tonight’s two-parter will begin with another appearance by Dame Judi Dench, who always is so entertaining when she visits Norton. And based on an advance clip, she is again tonight (I hope tonight), reacting with a swoon to Norton’s cheekily displayed photo of a butt tatto
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
11
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
If the writers don’t have a blast with this week’s guest host, SNL should get some new writers. Tonight’s guest host: Taraji P. Henson, who plays Cookie on Fox’s Empire. Tonight’s musical guests: Mumford & Sons.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
10
MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Netflix unveils Season 1 of Marvel’s Daredevil in its entirety today, starring Charlie Cox as the superhero with a difference. The difference is, he has no superpowers – and, in fact, is legally handicapped, because he’s blind. But he’s also, thanks to radiation from the accident that blinded him as a boy, unusually attuned with his remaining senses, which allows him to navigate through his world, and the world of crime he seeks to oppose, with jaw-droppi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
10
2015 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
Jordan Spieth burst out of the gate yesterday, registering nine birdies and only one bogey to finish the first round of this year’s Masters at a very impressive 8 under par, earning the 21-year-old the early lead with a first-day 64. The last person to collect nine birdies in one Masters round at Augusta? Tiger Woods, four years ago. Yesterday, however, the closely scrutinized Woods shot a 1 over par first-round 73, tying him for 41st place. So today, Spieth is playing to maintain his lead
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
10
HAWAII FIVE-0 By David Bianculli
 
 
I’m not really recommending this show. I’m just pointing out that tonight’s plot involves a murder at a convention of Elvis impersonators. (Or, since there are more than one, would the correct plural be Elvii?) And the thought of that reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of Dabney Coleman’s old Buffalo Bill series, when his TV station was overrun by frantic Jerry Lewis imitators. (One of them being a pre-stardom Jim Carrey.) But I digress. So what Elvis song best sui
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
10
12 MONKEYS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: After tonight, there will only be 11 monkeys left. Just kidding. That’s not the plot of this show – but the plot, by now, is so convoluted and complicated, time-wise, that it might as well be.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
10
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Good lineup: Tonight’s guests include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, journalist Fareed Zakaria, and humorist Dave Barry.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
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The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
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Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
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'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley