The hosts this year are Sandra Oh, who’s riding very high thanks to Killing Eve, and Andy Samberg, whose Brooklyn Nine-Nine moves this week from Fox, where it’s been the past five years, to NBC, home of the televised Globes. For full-length Globe stories, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

2019

Jan

VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli

The new season of Victoria, starring Jenna Coleman as young Queen Victoria, arrives next Sunday on the PBS Masterpiece series – so tonight, as prelude and reminder, PBS presents the final three episodes from last season. These culminate with the “Comfort and Joy” episode, which has a surprising climax for a period drama series: an action sequence involving Prince Albert’s sudden collapse into the thin ice of a lake in winter, with Queen Victoria risking her own life to sa

2019

Jan

RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli

Okay, I give up. Two Sundays in a row now, I’ve screwed up by misidentifying episodes as finales. Two weeks ago, I called Escape at Dannemora a miniseries finale, when there was still one more episode to go. And last week, I thought it was the season finale of Ray Donovan, when it still had three episodes to go. All I can say is, it’s harder keeping track these days – and it’s far from my all-time journalistic error. That occurred in the late 1970s, when I reviewed an NBC

2019

Jan

AFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF: INDIANAPOLIS COLTS VS. HOUSTON TEXANS By David Bianculli

There are four wild-card playoff games – two today, and two tomorrow – and this first contest among the four offers what may be the most interesting duel at the quarterback position. For the 11-5 Houston Texans, the QB is Deshaun Watson, who has thrown only two interceptions in his last 10 games. However, he’s also been sacked more than any other quarterback this season. And for the 10-6 Indianapolis Colts, QB Andrew Luck threw 39 touchdown passes this season, coming within one

2019

Jan

NFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS VS. DALLAS COWBOYS By David Bianculli

This game, by contrast, is likely to focus on the running attack. The Seattle Seahawks have averaged more yardage per game on the ground than any other squad, while the Dallas Cowboys have the league’s rushing champion, Ezekiel Elliott. Both teams are 10-6, and this game is played in prime time on Fox.

2019

Jan

THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

It’s 2019 now – which means this most classic of all children’s movies is 80 years old. Made in 1939, everything in it, from the music to the tornado, still seems utterly perfect.

2019

Jan

THE ALEC BALDWIN SHOW By David Bianculli

This ABC talk show started on Sunday nights, then was shuffled off to Saturdays when the audience failed to materialize. Tonight’s repeat installment was the show’s most intriguing to date, because the guest was Jerry Seinfeld. Whenever he appears as a guest on a TV show, he usually has a good time making fun of either the host or the program, or both. And why is he appearing on The Alec Baldwin Show at all? Quid pro quo: Last year, Baldwin appeared as a guest on Seinfeld’s Com

2019

Jan

THE BLACKLIST By David Bianculli

The Season 6 premiere of this series was televised earlier this week, but tonight NBC repeats it as the first part of a Blacklist double feature – the second part being tonight’s new episode, the second of the new season, and the new year. The cliffhanger from last year established that Red (James Spader) was not, after all this time and all his stories, the father of FBI agent Liz (Megan Boone). She’s now more determined than ever to find out his true identity, his closeness t

2019

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

The latest edition of Graham Norton’s annual New Year’s party show arrives in the States a few days late – but, as always with The Graham Norton Show, it’s worth the wait. And when it comes time for the traditional “party games” demonstration of unusual talents, or what David Letterman would call Stupid Human Tricks, this brand new edition contains two have-to-see, and have-to-hear, moments. One is Keira Knightley’s rendition of “Raindrops Keep Fal

2019

Jan

THE GOLDEN GLOBES DON'T NECESSARILY DESERVE YOUR DISRESPECT By Ed Bark

Here come the 76th annual Golden Globes, whose mysterious group of 90-some Hollywood Foreign Press Association members somehow have stood the test of time and taunting...

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