Amy Holden Jones, daughter of a doctor and co-creator/executive producer of Fox’s new The Resident, seems to know just what many TV critics are thinking...

2018

Jan

THE THEORY OF ALTERNATE REALITIES ON 'COUNTERPART' By David Hinckley

The opening episode of the tense new Starz sci-fi drama Counterpart left me undecided for a long time, I must admit, on whether I wanted to stick around and figure it out...

2018

Jan

FOX'S 'THE RESIDENT' HAS POTENTIAL DESPITE ITS MANY AILMENTS By David Hinckley

Contrary to the promotion for Fox’s new medical drama The Resident, we’ve seen this patient before...

2018

Jan

'BLUE PLANET II': FAMILY PROGRAMMING IN A WAY YOU DIDN’T EXPECT By Alex Strachan

Finally. The curtain rises Saturday (Jan. 20) on Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, on BBC America and four of its AMC Networks sibling channels...

2018

Jan

THE STUNNING WORLD OF 'BLUE PLANET II' By David Hinckley

BBC America balances a growing cautionary tale with sheer majestic wonder when its long-awaited Planet Earth: Blue Planet II premieres Saturday...

2018

Jan

BREAKING BAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

We’re getting to the end of AMC’s Breaking Bad celebratory marathon, and today there are two specific reasons to celebrate. One is that today – January 20 – is the exact 10th anniversary of the premiere of Breaking Bad, TV’s all-time best dramatic series. The day’s festivities, a continuation of AMC’s month-long weekend sequential presentation of the series, begin at 9:18 a.m. ET, with Season 4, Episode 9. And the other specific reason to celebrate is th

2018

Jan

SNATCHED By David Bianculli

This 2017 comedy wasn’t written by Amy Schumer (Katie Dippold, from Parks & Recreation, wrote the script), but Schumer stars, along with Goldie Hawn. Schumer plays a woman whose boyfriend dumps her on the eve of an expensively booked exotic location, and Hawn plays her mother, invited to accompany her as a last-minute substitute. After which they, and things, quickly go south...

2018

Jan

COCAINE GODMOTHER: THE GRISELDA BLANCO STORY By David Bianculli

I’m not in the habit of pointing out Lifetime telemovies, but this one sounds truly unusual. It’s a biographical film about drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, a rare female power figure in a shady underworld of macho thugs. Griselda Blanca Restrepo was a Colombian drug lord for the Medellin cartel, a major player in the Miami cocaine scene of the 1970s. This Lifetime movie could just as easily been titled one of her other formidable nicknames: The Black Widow, for example, or the clunkier

2018

Jan

ABBA: WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE By David Bianculli

For those who care about such things, and were pulled in decades ago by the music from this particular imported quartet: Tonight Reelz offers a new documentary, promising the inside story of ABBA. I’m not sure I even know the outside story of ABBA, other than the musical and movie it spawned, but here it is nonetheless…

2018

Jan

THE BAND WAGON By David Bianculli

Plenty of wonderfully entertaining movies have been made from an insider’s viewpoint, making fun of especially pretentious or inept filmmakers who try to tackle, and accidentally destroy, a new play, film or TV show. Writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the co-conspirators who wrote two of the very best of these. One was 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, a perfect comedy about the transition from silent to sound movies – and the other, made the very next year, was this ot

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