Here comes the sun, here comes the sun -- and I say, it’s all right. (Thanks, George Harrison, for writing that mini-review decades ago.) This new episode of Nova digs more than skin deep, and explains what’s going on under the sun – quite literally. It’s a fascinating subject, and a visually astounding hour, making this installment, if you will, a super Nova.

2012

Apr

WILD AUSTRALIA By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: From the massive sandstone formation known as Ayers Rock to the endless variety of poisonous insects, snakes and other creatures, Australia has something wild for everybody. As author Bill Bryson noted with paranoid respect when he visited Australia, “There are more things here to kill you than anywhere else in the world.” His tone is joking – but he’s not kidding.

2012

Apr

DON'T TRUST THE B---- IN APARTMENT 23 By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode of this series surprised me, and impressed me, with its truly twisted plot twists: the guy Krysten Ritter’s Chloe set up with her roommate, Dreama Walker’s June, turned out to be Chloe’s own father. And this week’s episode should be required viewing for all Mad Men fans. One subplot has James Van Der Beek, who co-stars on this series as an exaggerated self-caricature, researching a role for a new Freaky Friday-type body swap comedy movie &ndash

2012

Apr

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT By David Bianculli

This week’s plot has to do with a costumed group of “superhero vigilantes” who are patrolling the city. Their activities and their motives, though, turn out to be anything but heroic. Avengers disassemble!

2012

Apr

I, DAVID, RECOMMEND NEW DVD OF ‘I, CLAUDIUS’ By David Bianculli

Thirty-five years ago, PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre imported a brilliant BBC miniseries about a family so twisted, it makes The Borgias and The Sopranos look like The Waltons -- now, reissued in a lavish new DVD set, I, Claudius still amazes...

2012

Apr

2000: ABC DEBUTS ITS THREE STOOGES BIOPIC By Christy Slewinski

The Farrelly brothers aren’t the only Hollywood superstars to shine a spotlight on the Three Stooges. Today in 2000, ABC debuted its own Stooges film, executive produced by Mel Gibson. The Three Stooges offered a dramatized look at the famed comedy group’s ups and downs, told through the eyes of Moe..(and here's a special link...)

2012

Apr

GLEE By David Bianculli

It’s official: Glee did not learn its lesson about Very Special Episodes, which pretty much derailed the show, or at least the momentum of its primary plot lines, in Season 2. Last week, the music of Saturday Night Fever. This week, the songs sung by Whitney Houston.

2012

Apr

MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN By David Bianculli

Some people, when they watch this 1979 Monty Python comedy and view the climactic crucifixion sing-along, get a little cross. Not I. (I don’t even throw toast when I watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show.) Then again, there are those (and again, I do not count myself among them) who, as the song goes, “Always Look on at the Bright Side of Life.”

2012

Apr

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Last week, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera had to prune back their teams. This week, fellow judges and team leaders Cee Lo Green and Adam Lambert are doing the same – but can these two judges match last week’s honesty (from Blake) and theatricality (from Christina)? Let’s hope so, in the first case – and hope not, in the second.

2012

Apr

FUNNY GIRL By David Bianculli

Today is Barbra Streisand’s 70th birthday, and TCM is celebrating by presenting six of her movies in a mini-Babsathon. The salute begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1973’s The Way We Were, starring Robert Redford, but I have a soft spot for this 1968 movie version of the Broadway musical. The story of follies comic and singer Fanny Brice, It’s one of the high school stage musicals for which I designed the lighting, back when Richard Nixon was President. All these years later, I’m

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