SEASON PREMIERE: For the new season, the judges’ lineup is one that showed very playful chemistry last time they were in the spinning red seats: Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Shakira and Usher. And unlike American Idol, where the final shows are the most compelling, with The Voice it’s the other way around. The best shows are the first ones, when it truly is only the voices that matter, as the judges decide the eligibility of contestants solely on what they hear.

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Feb

DALLAS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The reboot of Dallas – and the boots, in his case, are pure country kicks – begins Season 3, its first full season without Larry Hagman, but with some new characters introduced and some old plot lines revisited. Including one from the original series, when Linda Gray’s Sue Ann flirts with falling off the wagon.

2014

Feb

INSIDE COMEDY By David Bianculli

Tonight, David Steinberg’s guests are Kevin Nealon and Andrew Dice Clay. The latter might seem to be an exercise in comedy nostalgia, but Clay has proven capable of major surprises of late. He was unexpectedly strong on HBO’s Entourage in a recurring role, and positively, almost astoundingly effective and vulnerable in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

2014

Feb

THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON By David Bianculli

The opening-week hype is over, and beginning tonight, Fallon settles into week two. He should be very proud of himself, given what he’s accomplished already, and tonight’s installment sets out to please many audiences at once. The scheduled guests: actress Reese Witherspoon, who, like many guests who will be appearing on Fallon’s show, appeared on Saturday Night Live during his tenure there; Fallon’s fellow SNL veteran Fred Armisen, starting tonight as the bandleader on L

2014

Feb

LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: With tonight’s inaugural Late Night with Seth Meyers, executive producer Lorne Michaels now controls two hours of TV every weeknight – and both shows, The Tonight Show and Late Night, now are showcasing comics who once anchored “Weekend Update” on Michaels’ Saturday Night Live. It’s good to be the king. Tonight’s opening-night guest: one of Meyers’ “Update” co-anchors, Amy Poehler, and a real newsmaker: Vice President J

2014

Feb

THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION, COURTESY OF HAND PUPPETS By David Bianculli

This six-minute video isn’t a history of hand puppets on TV, though that would be fun, too. It’s a history of TV presented by hand puppets from the Glove and Boots puppet web series...

2014

Feb

DAS BOOT (THE ORIGINAL UNCUT VERSION) By David Bianculli

The WWII drama Das Boot is a different kind of war epic, at least for American audiences, because it was filmed from the German point of view, originally as a 1981 German TV miniseries. Four years later, It was imported that way by the U.S.’s Bravo cable TV network...

2014

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THE XXII OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES By David Bianculli

The Closing Ceremonies are presented in prime time on NBC, capping what has been an interesting Olympics, though not always a victorious one for U.S. athletes. And at the end, the Olympic torch is passed to South Korea, which gives us a few years to learn how to spell, and pronounce, the host city of Pyeongchang.

2014

Feb

NANCY & TONYA By David Bianculli

Twenty years after the unbelievable events at Lillehammer made the 2004 women’s ice skating arena the hottest media story on the planet, NBC’s Mary Carillo returns to the story, and leading participants Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, to put things in a still-wild perspective. Kerrigan was attacked prior to competing, and her knee hit with a blunt instrument, by people sympathetic to her on-ice rival, Harding. What a story, then and now.

2014

Feb

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: "DOWNTON ABBEY" By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Make room on your schedule, and your recorders, for this one. It’s the Season 4 finale of Downton Abbey, it’s twice the usual length, and it features a return appearance by Shirley MacLaine and a first-time, fabulous appearance by Paul Giamatti as another visiting American relative. Check local listings.

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