Yesterday on TVWW’s Best TV Tomorrow YouTube video short, I recommended this particular double feature as the evening’s best bet. It was partly, I admit, for the self-conscious irony of being on TV (okay, on YouTube), recommending myself on TV (okay, on CNN), as one of the on-camera interviewees talking about television in two different decades. All of CNN’s “Decades” documentary series to date, which span from The Sixties to the 2000s,

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HULU'S LATEST, 'DOLLFACE,' IS A SURREAL SITCOM By David Hinckley

Dollface, an odd and not uninteresting new sitcom that arrives Friday on Hulu, begins with the simple premise that guys are idiots...

2019

Nov

MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This drama was more dynamic and artistic when original series creator Frank Spotnitz was in charge – but its tale of alternate realities remains compelling, with Allies as the resistance, and the Germans and Japanese the victors, after WWII. The first season established the existence of films showing a different world, and world war outcome – and last season established a way to travel between those worlds. Now, as Season 4 begins, a year has passed since last season

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FORKY ASKS A QUESTION By David Bianculli

This second episode of the new three-minute Forky Asks a Question series is called “What Is a Friend?,” and it should come with a warning: Beware of contagious catch phrases. Ever since Forky introduced his best friend, a ceramic Happy Face mug whom Forky introduces by the name of “Whaaaat?? Nooooooo!!,” I’m been unable to stop imitating that particular phrase. Watch and see, and hear why… Another instant Pixar classic.

2019

Nov

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM By David Bianculli

Today’s new episode of this documentary series has Goldblum exploring his love of ice cream. He not only takes a ride on an ice cream truck, but at one point visits with some ice cream entrepreneurs, adding to a temporary trio called Jeff & Ben & Jerry.

2019

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HOUSE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS By David Bianculli

The second day of the House Impeachment Hearings begins at hour earlier, starting at 9 a.m. with today’s key witness: Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Wednesday’s opening session dropped a bombshell, which it wasn’t expected to – and today’s session may get personal, and emotional, because Yovanovitch was the diplomat removed from her job and essentially threatened by the President of the United States, allegedly because she refused to pursue or

2019

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BEING THERE By David Bianculli

This 1979 Hal Ashby film is one of my favorite movies – and it’s shown on TCM as what I arrogantly and erroneously consider a personal present to me, which I pass on as a personal present to you. Or at least I did yesterday, on TVWW’s video YouTube short, Best TV Tomorrow. Watch it, and join the party…

2019

Nov

THE FINAL SEASON OF 'THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE' RETURNS TO AMAZON By David Hinckley

The competition for the most disturbing show on television turned brutal some time ago, and no discussion about that designation should be held without Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle...

2019

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THE PREPPY MURDER: DEATH IN CENTRAL PARK By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: This nonfiction miniseries tells of a 1986 murder case covered by the media, and defended by attorneys, as more of a circus. It may not have been quite as outrageous as the media furor over the O.J. Simpson case – but coming a few years earlier, it certainly sowed the seeds. Tonight, the concluding Part 5.

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Wow, this seems unfortunate timing, for Bill Maher to pull up stakes during such an unstable political period. But hey – these days, when isn’t it an unstable political period?

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