PASADENA, CA -- Did the A&E networks commission a lavish eight-hour production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace as a public service, so the rest of us would never have to actually read it? It could work out that way, admits director Tom Harper...

2016

Jan

NETFLIX SETS RETURN OF HIT SHOWS AND DATES FOR NEW SERIES By David Hinckley

Netflix is shrugging off a few jibes from traditional TV networks and doubling down on its charge into the new TV world...

2016

Jan

ANGIE TRIBECA MARATHON By David Bianculli

The 25-hour marathon of Angie Tribeca episodes continues – the entire Season 1 output, repeated over and over again until 10 p.m. ET. And if you’ve managed to miss all the episodes shown, and shown again, so far, you can tune in any time today. And should – Angie Tribeca is the silliest TV cop show since Police Squad!, and packs about as many sight gags and punch lines per minute. Rashida Jones stars.

2016

Jan

MASTERCHEF CELEBRITY SHOWDOWN By David Bianculli

This special, like many such reality-show celebrity specials, redefines and expands the definition of “celebrity.” But in this case, it’s interesting to watch even semi-familiar people willingly, and in many cases gleefully, subject themselves to the verbal abuse of chef Gordon Ramsay. It’s as though they’re being roasted by Don Rickles – being harassed is more than half the fun. In this case, though, a celebrity roast could be not only the atmosphere, but the

2016

Jan

TELENOVELA By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, a hurricane hits the production office and sound stages – and forces the cast to search for shelter, and food, in the prop room. They find both. But why are those grapes, like the plot, so hard to swallow?

2016

Jan

WAR & PEACE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Once again, the A&E network, and its network of sister stations, presents a miniseries that it’s spreading not only over several nights (in this case, every Monday for while), but over several networks. You can watch War & Peace on A&E, or, at the same time, on the History channel and Lifetime. Or, come to think of it, you can watch War on one network, and Peace on another. For a full story, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

2016

Jan

TOTAL RECALL By David Bianculli

This 1990 movie, much better than the recent remake, stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a man who embarks on a “virtual vacation,” only to have his entire reality questioned and threatened. It’s based on a story by Philip K. Dick, whose imaginative science fiction also inspired Blade Runner and The Man in the High Castle.

2016

Jan

'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 3: WEDDING BELL BLUES By David Hinckley

Poor Mrs. Hughes. Just when it looked like she’d won her Hundred Years War not to have her wedding overshadowed by the Crawley family, she got upstaged anyhow...

2016

Jan

SHOWTIME'S 'BILLIONS' IS MONEY IN THE BANK WITH GIAMATTI AND LEWIS By Ed Bark

Two bravura performances for the most part overcome the sometimes convoluted, other times confusing goings-on in Showtime’s Billions...

2016

Jan

FROM 'POLICE SQUAD!' TO 'ANGIE TRIBECA': WHAT TOOK SO LONG? By Ed Bark

ABC’s Police Squad! did it first with a lamentably short-lived, Leslie Nielsen-starring spoof of all those deadly serious cop dramas...

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