Simulcast on TBS and TNT, it’s another awards show – and another clump of tea leaves to read regarding the odds of movies heading for this year’s Oscars contest.

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THE OUTSIDER By David Bianculli

After last week’s two-episode premiere, we now know enough about this Stephen King adaptation to know how little we really know. Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo star as investigators of a particularly baffling set of crimes, where they’re faced not only with different sets of facts, but different sets of faces in surveillance cameras and other usually reliable sources of evidence. If there doesn’t seem to be any rational explanation for it, just remember that Stephen King rati

2020

Jan

AVENUE 5 By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Armando Iannucci, creator of Veep, concocted this new spacebound comedy series, which sort of takes the dysfunctional co-workers and appointed, vapid bosses typical of Veep and shoots them into outer space. Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad, as two of the token figureheads of this ill-fated space ship, are just right (Laurie also was pitch-perfect hilarious on Veep), but this new series doesn’t open as strongly, or humorously, as it could. Yet I want t

2020

Jan

VIENNA BLOOD By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This import, a 2019 limited series co-produced by British and Austrian television and shown last year on the BBC, takes the Sherlock Holmes model and teams a doctor with a shrewd investigator. In this case, and in the cases they pursue, the detective is Oskar Rheinhardt (played by Jurgen Maurer), and the doctor is Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard), a student of Sigmund Freud’s. The setting is 1900s Vienna, and Vienna Blood is shot on location in that city. Chec

2020

Jan

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: HBO didn’t provide preview copies for the Season 10 premiere of Larry David’s series, but if anyone has earned the benefit of the comic doubt, it’s this guy. (Guest stars this season include Jon Hamm from Mad Men.) And though it’s 10 years in terms of TV storytelling, it’s twice that in Larry David time. He’s taken time off between seasons so often that the first season of Curb began in 2000. But on TV as in life, some things ar

2020

Jan

'AVENUE 5' IS A GREAT COMEDY ESCAPE ON A SPACE CRUISE By David Hinckley

The funniest new show so far in 2020, allowing for the fact we're only 19 days into it, is Avenue 5...

2020

Jan

THE LATEST CRIME THRILLER ON PBS, 'VIENNA BLOOD,' IS WORTH EXPLORING By David Hinckley

PBS has made a good call to pick up Vienna Blood, a British-Austria police drama that premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. ET...

2020

Jan

HUGH LAURIE RETURNS TO COMEDY WITH HBO'S 'AVENUE 5' By Mike Hughes

Hugh Laurie is back to the world he once mastered – comedy that's dark and droll and odd and, well, very British. Also, very funny...

2020

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SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This newest ambitious nature documentary series from the BBC is so amazing – in content, visuals, technology, emotional resonance – all I can do is beg you to watch it. And to watch it, if possible, with your children and/or grandchildren, because these programs will connect deeply with every viewer regardless of age. (It’s simulcast on AMC, IFC, and Sundance TV, if that helps.) Sir David Attenborough narrates, and is the perfect tour guide for these breathtaki

2020

Jan

ON THE BASIS OF SEX By David Bianculli

This 2018 drama came out the same year as the documentary RBG, and both had the same subject: eventual Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. In this movie biography, the young Ginsberg, working her way through cases about sexual inequality and women’s rights, is played by Felicity Jones, who’s also played Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

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