MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is more warning than recommendation. This Michael Bay TV production has all the action set pieces and random violence and nudity you’ve come to expect from his movies – with characters just as thin, and actors who, for the most part, look a lot better than they act. In the case of Black Sails, this is a shame, because it’s borrowing characters from another, much better pirate story. Black Sails is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Is

2014

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new show features Idris Elba from Luther, Olivia Colenan from Broadchurch, and a guest who might be of special interest even to those who aren’t following quality imported British miniseries: Lena Dunham from HBO’s Girls.

2014

Jan

THE MOANING OF LIFE By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode, An Idiot Abroad reluctant traveler Karl Pilkington travels some more – in this specific instance, to examine some global approaches to marriage, and to re-examine his own thoughts on the topic. (Thoughts which, since he’s been living with the same woman, without marrying her, for 20 years now, may be somewhat intractable.)

2014

Jan

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Jonah Hill returns to guest host for the third time, hot on the heels of his co-starring role in Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street. Musical guest: Bastille.

2014

Jan

'DOWNTON' DOWAGER COUNTESS' SON TURNS TO PIRACY - ON 'BLACK SAILS' By Donna J. Plesh

Toby Stephens, whose mother is Maggie Smith, the Dowager Countess on PBS's Downton Abbey, has set sail on his own show -- as a pirate on Starz's Black Sails...

2014

Jan

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

I couldn’t think of anyone better, or more charismatic, to carry on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series and legacy than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who matches wits, and wit, so well with Bill Moyers on this show, they ought to think about starring in the talk-show equivalent of a buddy movie. Their conversation began last week – and went so well, it’s going into overtime with tonight’s installment. It seems only fitting: their cosmic conversation, likes the un

2014

Jan

MITT By David Bianculli

For now, Netflix has earned the right to be noted whenever it makes a programming step, so let’s note this: Its newest exclusive offering, a documentary about the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, is unveiled today. But it’s unveiled at the odd hour of 11 a.m. ET – and presents a look at the losing candidate of an election that took place two years ago. Before this, when was the last time you read a media mention of Mitt Romney? My point exactly. As attention-getting moves

2014

Jan

BLAZING SADDLES By David Bianculli

In Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy triumph of a Western spoof, Cleavon Little plays Black Bart – technically, black Bart – who, at one point, extricates himself from a mob of bigots by holding himself hostage at gunpoint. And it works. So does the rest of the movie, from its infamous campfire scene to its shatter-the-fourth-wall climax. Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn and Brooks himself co-star.

2014

Jan

THE REAL MARY POPPINS By David Bianculli

Pamela Travers, who wrote Mary Poppins under the name P.L. Travers, is profiled in this public television special – which finds the room, and the time, to present clips from the current Disney movie, Saving Mr. Banks, about the long process of turning her book into a film. Check local listings.

2014

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include Erin Brockovich – the real one, not Julia Roberts, who played her in the movie of the same name – and Willie Nelson. Hmm. Willie Nelson and Bill Maher together, with marijuana legalization as part of the national news cycle. What will they talk about?

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