DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: You can tell when something really, truly special shows up on TV, because this site’s TVWW contributors, coming at it from various angles, are all over it. And that’s the case with this newest Planet Earth nature documentary series, Blue Planet II, narrated by the peerless David Attenborough. So read, please, the full and enthusiastic reports by David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. But trust me, to

2018

Jan

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

As this day began, at midnight Saturday, the American government stopped operating – but Saturday Night Live is still at it, and will present a new episode tonight, opening, no doubt, with the government shutdown and other news. Jessica Chastain is the week’s guest host, with Troye Sivan as the musical guest.

2018

Jan

GRACE AND FRANKIE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 begins with Grace and Frankie (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin) separated by distance, and trying to maintain their friendship long-distance. Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen, as their exes, are still around, even though Waterston just co-starred in another Netflix series, last year’s great new Western, Godless. And this year, as Frankie pursues the artists’ life in Santa Fe, Grace eventually gets a new roommate, played by Lisa Kudrow, who joins Grace and Frankie this

2018

Jan

JUST ADD MAGIC By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This Amazon kids’ show, about a trio of girlfriends who unleash magic through the recipes in a mystical cookbook, begins Season 2 with a new reality: the town’s long-standing spells are shattered, which leads to both good news (Dee Wallace is awake: hi, mom!) and bad (hi, teen villain who’s been on ice for 50 years!).

2018

Jan

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “The Last Day,” and it may be the last day on Earth, or of Earth. And as the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, trapped in some bleak alternate future, are about to learn, the key to righting the wrongs of their new future may lie in someone visiting from their old past.

2018

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Bill Maher returns for the start of Season 16 on HBO, and arrives, on live TV, just two hours before the threat of a scheduled government shutdown. Welcome back, Bill. Anything interesting happen while you were on break? His guests tonight are set to include Michael Wolff (pictured), author of the Trump campaign and administration expose Fire and Fury – and that’s just his opening guest. Others include Andrew Sullivan and Larry Wilmore, so there’s no way

2018

Jan

RADIO ACTIVITY By Eric Gould

Portlandia’s final season has premiered and Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are still delivering top-shelf irony in this NPR-style podcast being done in the local police station...

2018

Jan

THE LASTING LEGACY OF 'LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART' By David Hinckley

J. Edgar Hoover’s team had it right. Lorraine Hansberry was a commie...they just got one part wrong: Hansberry wasn’t trying to subvert America. She was trying to make it better...

2018

Jan

THE LOSS OF AN INFLUENTIAL TALENT: 'LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART' By Roger Catlin

It seems odd at first that the American Masters (PBS, 9 p.m. ET, check local listings) on the playwright Lorraine Hansberry seems longer than the film last week on PBS about James Baldwin...

2018

Jan

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new episode, Raj dates a beautiful blonde named Nell, played by Beth Behrs from 2 Broke Girls, and all seems to be going well. Except she’s got a jealous husband, who’s played by the always entertaining Walton Goggins, who was even more menacing on FX’s Justified.

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