Just in time for the holidays, Cartman produces a video that he claims to capture the first visual proof of a scary new creature that preys upon participants of Easter Egg hunts: the dreaded Jewpacabra. (Send emails to South Park, please, not here.)

2012

Apr

FLICK PICKS: MORE 'MOCKINGBIRD' By Diane Werts

This week, PBS's "American Masters" is profiling novelist Harper Lee, and cable's USA is airing her "To Kill a Mockingbird" in honor of both the 50th anniversary of the film...Now President Barack Obama is part of the salute...

2012

Apr

TODAY By David Bianculli

In the second hour of today’s Today, Matt Lauer’s one-day special co-host is Sarah Palin (identified on air by the network as a Fox News Contributor when Lauer interviewed her in the opening hour). A co-host doesn’t usually interview his guest host one hour, then turn around and swap anchor duties the next – but there’s nothing usual about this particular morning-show move at all. Not when former Today co-host Katie Couric is guest hosting ABC’s Good Morning A

2012

Apr

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "GRAND COULEE DAM" By David Bianculli

(Check Local Listings) Tonight’s new American Experience special is a dam good program. It’s a documentary about FDR’s ambitious New Deal vision to construct a massive dam that would help farmers back from the waterless horrors of the Dust Bowl. The dam in question, of course, is the Grand Coulee (no relation).

2012

Apr

LOVER COME BACK By David Bianculli

This 1961 movie is part of Doris Day week, in celebration of her 88th birthday today. But this particular film also should be of keen interest to Mad Men fans. Not only is it set in the very era in which that Madison Avenue period drama began, but Doris Day and Rock Hudson play rival executives at New York advertising agencies. So catch the time, the issues and the sexual office politics – before they became nostalgia.

2012

Apr

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Yesterday was the year’s first live telecast of this series, as it entered the solo performance rounds. But last night, a lot of the thunder was stolen by one of the judges, who wore an outrageous wig to out-glam the other red-chair singer-celebrities. You’d expect it to be Christina Aguilera – but no. It was Cee-Lo Green.

2012

Apr

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

This is the penultimate show of the season, and, as in last week’s show, makes you realize just how many juicy, powerfully unpredictable characters are surrounding and threatening Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan this year. Limehouse, Quarles, and Jeremy Davies’ Dickie Bennett (pictured at left, with Olyphant) – all of them potentially deadly, and all of them increasingly threatened and defensive. Stand by for some wild, primal confrontations.

2012

Apr

COURIC VS. PALIN MORNING SHOW DUEL: READY, AIM, FIREWORKS! By David Bianculli

The morning-show wars went nuclear Tuesday, as reigning NBC superpower "Today" countered increasingly competitive ABC "Good Morning America's" aggressive week-long guest host stunt. Then "Today" launched its own offensive missile...

2012

Apr

FLICK PICKS: 5 NIGHTS OF DORIS DAY By Diane Werts

She's more of an actress, and an icon, than you think. The perennially underrated Doris Day gets a different kind of Turner Classic Movies salute -- it's a week-long festival in all of which mid-century America's favorite blonde (sorry, Marilyn) proves herself adept...

2012

Apr

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

From this point on, the singers on this competition are battling singers from opposing teams. Which makes things easier for them, but tougher on the judges, whose individual pride comes into play. Last season, Adam Levine won bragging rights, and used them all this year to persuade singers to join his team. Beginning tonight, against the other judges, he attempts to retain that distinct advantage. Meanwhile, have you noticed that the show is borrowing an American Idol trick, and having the judge

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