No matter how many times it’s told, the story just never gets old. PBS’ American Experience series at last gets around to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after four previous big- and small-screen treatments of their murderous crime spree...

2016

Jan

PBS ANNOUNCES 'VICTORIA,' 'HAMILTON' AND MORE By David Hinckley

Queen Victoria ruled Britain for 63 years. PBS would like her to rule American Sunday nights for a few more. The network announced Monday that it will launch an eight-part British series called Victoria next year...

2016

Jan

MARVEL'S CAPTAIN AMERICA: 75 HEROIC YEARS By David Bianculli

Every time a new Marvel movie or TV series launches, or especially a special like this that notes the significance and longevity of a Marvel comic-book character, I can’t help but think back, obsessively, to seventh grade in the mid-Sixties, when I sold my then-complete Silver Age collection of Marvel Comics to Randy Silverman for $75. My collection didn’t include the first issue of the original Captain America comic from 1941 (pictured), published by Marvel precursor Timely Comics.

2016

Jan

MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For this new season, the heroine of this period spy series – an offshoot from the Captain America story as retold in recent Marvel Comics movies – relocates from New York to Los Angeles. This might make the new season a little more bright lights of Hollywood, and a little less East Coast noir. But whatever happens, Hayley Atwood, in the title role, will be at the center of things.

2016

Jan

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "BONNIE AND CLYDE" By David Bianculli

Why did Bonnie & Clyde become so much a part of the public imagination, both at the time they were robbing banks during the Depression and again as folk anti-heroes of the 1960s? For the latter, it was because of the 1967 classic movie Bonnie and Clyde, which glamorized them by casting Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the leading roles. But in the 1930s, when the real Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were robbing banks, their fame exploded exponentially after a roll of film they had left behi

2016

Jan

THE GRINDER By David Bianculli

This series has been moved later in the Tuesday lineup on Fox, but don’t forget about it. The Grinder remains one of the only good new comedies this season, and has gotten more and more enjoyable every single week. In tonight’s new episode, a flashback allows for a reunion between Grinder star Rob Lowe and former West Wing co-star Richard Schiff.

2016

Jan

FRONTLINE: "SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY" By David Bianculli

Frontline, Canada’s CBC and The New York Times team up to explore and explain the problems with diet supplements and vitamins, a billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry apparently teeming with problems, controversies, and dangers. My prescription regarding tonight’s Frontline: Take one hour, and call your doctor in the morning. Check local listings.

2016

Jan

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL REDUX By Jonathan Storm

Older, and maybe wiser, five of the stars of High School Musical will reconvene on the Disney Channel for the tenth anniversary celebration of the TV movie that reached 100 million viewers around the world in 2006, won a boatload of awards, and was performed by students in more than 2,000 U.S. schools in its first 15 months...

2016

Jan

PIPER MAY GO DARKER IN SEASON 4, 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' By David Hinckley

If you’d like Piper to get a little nicer in Season 4 of Orange Is the New Black, maybe she will. Or maybe she won’t. Or maybe she doesn’t need to...

2016

Jan

PRODUCERS RESPOND TO MEDIA VERDICT ON 'MAKING A MURDERER' By David Hinckley

The producers of Netflix’s controversial Steven Avery documentary, Making a Murderer, fired back Sunday at critics who say their indictment of the criminal justice system is distorted and paints Avery in too favorable a light...

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