Tonight’s new episode takes our heroes – Eleanor, Tahani, Chidi and Jason, with their android-ish companion Janet – to a new place. They’ve left the Good Place, which was a fake Good Place engineered and designed by Ted Danson’s Michael, and sought temporary refuge in the actual, foreboding Bad Place, which they, and we, will be seeing for the first time. This means the adoption of cover identities, which is why tonight’s episode is titled “Rhonda, Diana

2018

Jan

LIP SYNC BATTLE LIVE By David Bianculli

There’s a new premiere today – not of a program, but of a newly rechristened network. As of today, the cable network formerly known as Spike TV will be known as Paramount – and marks the occasion with a special live edition of its Lip Sync Battle series, with celebrity contestants offering their interpretations of various hits by Michael Jackson. LL Cool J hosts. And for the record: Paramount now replaces Spike TV, which was launched in 2003, replacing The National Network, whi

2018

Jan

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Portlandia begins its final season tonight, with the start of Season 8. Many familiar faces, all played by the same dynamic duo, will be making their farewell appearances as the season proceeds… so enjoy, and take the time each week to say aloha to Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, and all their twisted and funny alter egos.

2018

Jan

PHIL ROSENTHAL SAYS 'SOMEBODY FEED PHIL' WILL MAKE TRAVEL AND FOOD A GOOD TIME By TVWW Guest Contributor

TVWW Guest Contributor Theresa Corigliano talks with host Phil Rosenthal about his eponymous travel series that’s devoted to finding the perfect bite…

2018

Jan

PLANET EARTH: LIFE By David Bianculli

Continuing its buildup to this Saturday’s premiere of Blue Planet II – which, by the way, I recommend as enthusiastically as I recommend anything – BBC America today presents a marathon repeat of yet another of its previous nature documentary triumphs, 2007’s Planet Earth: Life. All 10 episodes are shown, in order, then repeated again beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Sir David Attenborough, the best in the business, narrates.

2018

Jan

THE X-FILES By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “Plus One,” and is about people who fear they are being followed, and maybe even stalked, by their own doppelgangers. And our intrepid investigators, Mulder and Scully, are not immune to this particular paranoia. Except it may not be paranoia, if the lookalikes they imagine aren’t really imaginary…

2018

Jan

CORPORATE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new 10-episode comedy series goes where one classic workplace sitcom, The Office, has gone before. But this one promises to be even darker. Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman, two of the show’s creators (director Pat Bishop is the other), star as unhappy, overworked, underappreciated office drones. Just asking: Are there any other kind?

2018

Jan

THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is FX’s, and Ryan Murphy’s, follow-up to the first American Crime Story outing, the excellent The People v. O.J. Simpson. The anthology nature of this umbrella series is pursued aggressively: This second presentation is a very different type of story, told very differently. And as such, it’s less effective and involving dramatically – the murder of fashion icon Gianni Versace hardly compares, in terms of impact, to the O.J. murder trial. And by focus

2018

Jan

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Can the Bee make sense of this week’s headline-grabbing S-word? C D B. D B S A B Z B…

2018

Jan

FX'S 'THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE' HITS HARDER WITH THE KILLER'S LESSER-KNOWN VICTIMS By Ed Bark

FX’s second American Crime Story entry could be far more accurately titled The Dissection of Andrew Cunanan...

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