In 2013, I wrote a piece for TVWW on Al Jazeera America’s premiere in which I compared it to the fictional channel in HBO’s The Newsroom. That much-praised show was canceled after three seasons and the real life newsroom is meeting the same fate...

2016

Jan

JAMES CORDEN DOING CAR KARAOKE WITH ADELE By David Bianculli

The latest edition of The Late Late Show host James Corden’s singalong karaoke car rides is with Adele, and this one is super-sized...

2016

Jan

FOX IS RETURNING 'PRISON BREAK' -- AND '24' MINUS JACK BAUER By David Hinckley

Even before the new X-Files reaches the air, Fox is dipping into its archives to revive two more well-remembered past hits: 24 and Prison Break...

2016

Jan

SUPER BOWL I: THE LOST GAME By David Bianculli

The first Super Bowl game has long been considered one of the “lost” TV events – no surviving videotape was thought to exist, for some reason, of the 1967 game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs. Yet NFL Films has found in its archives enough raw footage, and surviving outtakes from other specials, to put together what it’s calling an every-play recreation of the game itself. As for the game, it wasn’t even called the Super Bowl at the time –

2016

Jan

STAGECOACH By David Bianculli

This 1939 movie, directed by John Ford, is one of the truly great classic Westerns. In part, it’s because of the way Ford uses the rugged frontier landscape. For another, it’s because of the way he uses the young actor tapped to be his leading man: John Wayne.

2016

Jan

THE GERSHWIN PRIZE: WILLIE NELSON By David Bianculli

I haven’t seen this special in advance, but its list of performers, honoring the great Willie Nelson, guarantees I’ll be watching tonight. Nelson himself will be performing (unlike the recipients of the Kennedy Honors, the Gershwin Prize winners get to play, and sing, if they so wish). So will previous Gershwin Prize winner Paul Simon, and Simon’s wife, Edie Brickell, and Roseanne Cash, and Neil Young, and… if you need more names than that, you’re a lot harder to i

2016

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s the start of Season 14 for Bill Maher and his entertaining, interesting current affairs comedy and discussion show. It arrives one day after the latest Republican Presidential Debate, and two days before the next Democratic one, so there’s automatically lots to talk about. And the guests for tonight’s season opener include former Vice President Al Gore, Cornel West, John Krasinski, and others.

2016

Jan

USA'S 'COLONY' GIVES EARTH YET ANOTHER BAD TIME OF IT By Ed Bark

Earth never comes out ahead in the future. At least not in television dramas...

2016

Jan

USA'S 'COLONY' LEADS THE NETWORK INTO THE DARKER SIDE By David Hinckley

The dark-oppression drama Colony offers an encouraging sign that the USA network is figuring out its own new world...

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