This 2008 comedy isn’t really that good, or even that funny, though it’s one of the dozens of similar films following in the successful wake of Legally Blonde several years before. What makes it worth watching today is how many of its stars have moved on to prominent, and often noteworthy, TV roles. Anna Faris, now starring on the CBS sitcom Mom, has the very titular role of the former Playboy bunny who takes a job as house mother at an unpopular campus sorority. Her costars include

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GREAT PERFORMANCES: "LA DOLCE VITA: THE MUSIC OF ITALIAN CINEMA" By David Bianculli

The New York Philharmonic salutes the music of Italian cinema, with help from Reneé Fleming, Josh Groban and Joshua Bell. Alan Gilbert conducts selected works from Italian movie soundtracks, including classic ones by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. Music from Federico Fellini’s 8½ and La Dolce Vita are here, and from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, and others. But they missed a great one: Piero Piccioni’s great music and vocal arrangements for Elio Pet

2015

Feb

UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: You know that recent TV ad showing animals of different species, and often natural enemies, cavorting or cuddling together? Well, National Geographic Wild already had turned that concept into a nature series long ago – and here it is, returning again for a new season (Number 4) of cats and dogs, horses and chickens, and just about any other mix-and-match arrangement you can imagine. It’s the animal kingdom version of The Odd Couple, only a lot more entertaining than

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SEX BOX By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is definitely not a recommendation – just a warning, and a bit of a scolding. It’s not even March yet – but if any other show is going to top my 2015 Worst TV list, this is the low bar it’ll have to slither beneath. Three advanced-degree therapists of various stripes sit in judgment, Shark Tank-like, while three couples take turns sitting before them to discuss their derailed sex lives. The experts give them some initial counseling, then send them of

2015

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WE TV'S SUPER-LUDICROUS 'SEX BOX': AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS, UM, COME? By Ed Bark

With the new WEtv series Sex Box, TV critics are given more big, juicy low-hanging fruit to feast on than a giraffe in an apple orchard...

2015

Feb

DOES 'BOSCH' OFFER ANYTHING NEW FOR THE OLD COP SHOW? By TVWW Guest Contributor

Read why TVWW Guest Contributor, Kevin Canfield, says Amazon's Bosch is captivating, full of wonderful characters, and worth investigating...

2015

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Sheldon and Penny (Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco) take part in an experiment on a lark, and because of an excess of skepticism. The experiment? “The Intimacy Acceleration,” an experiment designed to make its participants fall in love.

2015

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Last night, the 12 male vocalists performed. Tonight, the 12 females on the other half of the contestant equation do the same thing.

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QI By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Well, it’s a premiere on BBC America, and in the U.S., but this long-running quiz show from BBC2 is anything but new over there. But I’ve watched it while visiting London, and it’s a breezy delight. Stephen Fry hosts a rotating group of panelists who are tasked not with delivering the most accurate answer to his questions, necessarily, but the most interesting. (The title QI stands for “Quite Interesting.”) And tonight’s three back-to-back epi

2015

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HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: ABC hands over two hours of prime time for this final episode of the season, which indeed promises to offer up some finality. Yet, at the same time, expect at least one cliffhanger mystery to tease viewers until next season, because it wouldn’t be an ABC Thursday drama without it.

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