SERIES RETURN: After a long and needless two-month hibernation, this comedy returns to the NBC lineup. Andre and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) make plans to remarry – but don’t expect this hitching to go off without a hitch.

2012

Mar

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

This show has a way of generating headlines, even if from the misbehavior of judges or contestants. Last night, the shocker was the sudden dismissal of Top 13 finalist Jermaine Jones, the 25-year-old from Pine Hill, NJ, who, in seems, had falsified his past to Idol producers by hiding his outstanding arrest warrants. Now that’s arresting television! And tonight was supposed to be the elimination episode…

2012

Mar

30 ROCK By David Bianculli

NEW TIME: Just as Liz (Tina Fey) seems to be getting an actual, stable love life on track, her ex-boyfriend Dennis returns unexpectedly – and, of course, inconveniently. And he’s played, hilariously as always, by Dean Winters, so it’s no wonder he’s wreaking havoc. He’s been having a blast in Allstate commercials lately, playing the wickedly destructive Mayhem. (“Recalculating!”)

2012

Mar

INSIDE COMEDY By David Bianculli

Ellen DeGeneres is one of the two comics interviewed tonight by David Steinberg, but I’ve even more interested in the other: Tim Conway. Where else are you going to hear Conway describe his many failed TV series, in ways that are instantly funnier than the series themselves. And then, of course, there’s his pop-culture triumph, being the imp who made all other cast members crack up on The Carol Burnett Show.

2012

Mar

CANCELED: NO MORE 'LUCK' By Diane Werts

Wow. HBO's Luck has truly run out. Dustin Hoffman's Sunday night show from producers David Milch and Michael Mann has shut down production -- permanently -- after Tuesday's death of a third horse involved in series location filming at Santa Anita Park near Pasadena, Calif...

2012

Mar

CHATTING WITH MICHAEL RIEDEL, THE NY THEATER CRITIC AND TV HOST ATTACKED, AND EMBRACED, BY NBC'S 'SMASH' By Tom Brinkmoeller

After I had written mostly positive things for TV WORTH WATCHING last year about a public-television series called Theater Talk (read the column HERE), I didn't think I'd be writing about this Broadway-news series again soon. Then NBC premiered Smash, and before the first episode was finished, I knew I had guessed incorrectly...

2012

Mar

'TOUCH' MIXES FAMILY DRAMA, MYSTICAL NUMBERS By Jane Boursaw

After eight seasons of watching Kiefer Sutherland kick terrorist tush on 24, I wasn't sure I'd be able to see him as any other character. But after watching the pilot for "Touch" I'm not sure it's going to be a tough-guy role for him, but it's early in the game and anything could happen...

2012

Mar

THE MIDDLE By David Bianculli

Here’s a major guest star alert, matching a very clever performer to a very clever comedy series. Appearing this week is Ed Asner, who was equally brilliant as the newsroom boss of a Minneapolis TV station in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as the city editor of a Los Angeles newspaper on Lou Grant – playing the same character in both the sitcom and the drama series. Tonight, Asner is back in the newspaper business, and Brick (Atticus Shaffer) is his newest employee, the new paper boy.

2012

Mar

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD By David Bianculli

This 2011 two-part Martin Scorsese documentary on George Harrison is a superb piece of work, and is presented tonight by HBO2 in its entirety, as a convenient, ready-to-record double feature. For our TV WORTH WATCHING raves about this HBO biography of the former Beatle, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader column HERE, and my own Bianculli’s Blog review HERE.

2012

Mar

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE By David Bianculli

Karl Malden is the star of the month on TCM, so his movies are showcased Wednesday nights in March. But tonight, it might as well be Marlon Brando night, because the leadoff films feature not only Malden, but the best of Brando. First is this 1951 version of the Tennessee Williams play (pictured), co-starring Vivian Leigh and capturing one of the most influential acting jobs of the 20th century. Then, at 10:15 p.m. ET, comes 1954’s On the Waterfront, another seminal film and performance, w

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