SPECIAL PREMIERE: With Portlandia in its final season, former Saturday Night Live regular Fred Armisen is about to be a free-range chicken again, roaming among various projects. And why not start with this one? After all, it does something neither Portlandia nor SNL allowed the chameleonic comic to do: to stand on stage, without hiding behind wigs and costumes and characters, to make observations and jokes, and be funny on his own terms, as himself. And behind his own drum kit, which, for a stan

2018

Feb

LONESOME DOVE By David Bianculli

This 1989 CBS miniseries is one of the best Westerns ever made, in any medium. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston star, and all three are marvelous in this tale of the old West and some of its more mature inhabitants (mature at least in terms of chronological age). Encore televises Parts I and II tonight, and the concluding Parts III and IV tomorrow. Well, well worth watching.

2018

Feb

THIS IS US By David Bianculli

If the stayed tuned after Super Bowl LII (and what a game!) to watch that night’s special showing of This Is Us, you saw an absolute tearjerker of a show – but one that managed to defy expectations while still, by the end, delivering the sad circumstances of the death of this show’s beloved patriarch, Jack, played by Milo Ventimiglia. But while Jack he’s dead, he’s not gone – not on this show, which will continue to show scenes from his life in this drama&rsqu

2018

Feb

INSIDE THE NFL By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the last outing this season for Showtime’s crew of pro football analysts – and boy, with Sunday’s Super Bowl, which produced more offensive yards than any postseason game in history, they’ll have plenty to discuss, and show, when they go to the videotape. Well, the films. The company isn’t called NFL Videotape – and with its artistically photographed footage, it deserves the name NFL Films.

2018

Feb

FANCY FOOTWORK By Eric Gould

It wasn’t a stellar crop of commercials for Super Bowl LII, but this one, for the NFL, had New York Giants players Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr. reprising the well-known dance number from Dirty Dancing, and it was a charmer...

2018

Feb

JOHN MAHONEY 1940 – 2018 By David Hinckley

The best sitcoms are never purely star vehicles...

2018

Feb

DOCTOR FINLAY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Calling this a “premiere,” with the Acorn streaming service presenting yet another British import as part of its lineup, is really a stretch. That’s because this drama series, starring David Rintoul in the title role as a doctor establishing private practice after his stint in World War II, ran in the U.K. from 1993 to 1996. So this is a very golden oldie, even for loyal TV Anglophiles – but does offer some early looks at such familiar (to PBS viewers, an

2018

Feb

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH By David Bianculli

Turner Classic Movies doesn’t usually offer films that were released in the 21st century – but as today is one of the “31 Days of Oscar” devoted to nominated and winning documentaries, tonight’s prime-time lineup begins with one welcome exception. It’s Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a lecture about the perils of ignoring climate change, released in 2006. And its facts and figures and images are alarming, weather or not you come to the film already pers

2018

Feb

INDEPENDENT LENS: "WINNIE" By David Bianculli

Before Winnie Mandela married African activist Nelson Mandela, she was Winnie Madikizela, and was an activist herself. This new documentary is about her life before and after her long and often high-profile marriage to the African icon, as well as the period during their marriage and his long imprisonment. Hence the all-inclusive title, Winnie. Check local listings.

2018

Feb

WOODSTOCK: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT By David Bianculli

If you have room on your DVR, record this for sure. Although the movie Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music came out in 1970, a year after the massively attended Bethel, NY rock festival itself, this four-hour expanded Director’s Cut edition, shown tonight as part of TCM’s “31 Days of Oscar” salute to documentaries, wasn’t released until 1994. And in this case, more is better, and the strained, overwhelming size of the film just seems to mirror the subject itself. (

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