The Kentucky Wildcats, with Michael Davis (at left) dominating the floor and the tournament thus far, are strong favorites to win tonight’s championship final against the Kansas Jayhawks. But since Kentucky’s dominant weapons, like its fast-break transitional game, are no secret, Kansas knows what it must do to keep pace and shoot for an upset. It’s just the difference between knowing it and accomplishing it that’s so tough.

2012

Apr

HOUSE By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: After a brief hiatus, this series is back, and will stick around this time – presenting fresh episodes each and every week – until Hugh Laurie’s House limps into the sunset in May’s series finale. And in this episode, it may be House himself who is sick. Physician, heal thyself!

2012

Apr

AMERICAN MASTERS: “MARGARET MITCHELL: AMERICAN REBEL” & “HARPER LEE: HEY, BOO!” By David Bianculli

PBS, 9 & 10 p.m. ET (Check local listings) - This doubleheader of American Masters literary biographies starts with a profile of the author of Gone with the Wind, and concludes with a profile of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. The latter is a much better book – and, as it turns out, a much better documentary, too. For a full review, see today’s Bianculli’s Blog HERE. And for an interview with American Masters creator Susan Lacy about these two shows, see Tom Brinkmoell

2012

Apr

SMASH By David Bianculli

In this episode, Ivy (Megan Hilty, at left) finds herself in competition with Karen (Katherine McPhee) once again, this time for a TV commercial. Meanwhile, the musical may be moving forward with yet another significant alteration – a celebrity leading lady.

2012

Apr

WHICH OF MONDAY'S 'AMERICAN MASTERS' DOCUMENTARIES IS BETTER? I SAY: 'BOO!' By David Bianculli

Of Monday's two new American Masters literary profiles on PBS, the much better one is titled Hey, Boo! And if your response is "Boo who?," my response is: Quit your crying...

2012

Apr

TONIGHT'S TV WORTH WATCHING? HERE ARE MY BEST BETS -- NO FOOLING By David Bianculli

On this particular day, April 1, there are so many TV shows of note that there wasn't room for them all in BIANCULLI'S BEST BETS. So today only, if you want to find out about the best shows on TV tonight, keep reading BIANCULLI'S BLOG here...

2012

Apr

SHOWGIRLS MARATHON By David Bianculli

(Logo, 6 a.m. Sunday - 6 a.m. Monday ET) What better way to begin a new month – especially this month – than to revel in a 24-hour marathon of this 1995 character study, starring Elizabeth Berkley as a small-town dancer who comes to Las Vegas to ride a dream, and a pole? Gina Gershon plays a Vegas headliner who takes Berkley’s Nomi under her wing (among other places), in a story that mixes the backstage rivalry of All About Eve with the sexual subtlety of The Opening of Misty B

2012

Apr

JERSEY SHORE MARATHON By David Bianculli

And Showgirls isn’t the only marathon being served up by television today. There’s also this marathon from MTV, which presents 13 episodes -- an entire season -- of last year’s Jersey Shore. For those who can’t get enough of Pauly D and Snooki and the rest of these nattering nabobs of narcissism, here’s a full baker’s dozen – which, in any case, Shore is a lot.

2012

Apr

JERSEYLISCIOUS By David Bianculli

And if, at the end of 13 hours of Jersey Shore, you still need more Garden State TV, here comes a new hour of Jerseylicious. This reality show about a beauty salon staff devotes its focus, tonight, to Olivia’s attempt to solve a newly gestating workplace mystery: “the case of the pregnant staffer.” Spoiler Alert: I’m betting the culprit is a woman. That’s Tracy on the left, and those are Olivia on the right.

2012

Apr

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA By David Bianculli

What could possibly bring Kim Zolciak to tears in tonight’s new episode of this Georgia-based Housewives reality show? Did someone say something hurtful? Did someone play Ray Charles singing "Georgia on My Mind"? Did someone make Kim watch an episode of her own series? Hard to predict, because this is a reality show that transcends its genre – and has very little in common with reality itself.

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