Any concerns that the Battle Rounds on this show would be less entertaining than the swivel-chair audition rounds were obliterated last week, when two of Christina Aguilera’s singers climbed into the ring and tore up the same Alicia Keys song. Jesse Campbell and Anthony Evans both killed it, but only one could advance to the next round. I also loved it when Christina Aguilera brought in Jewel as a guest mentor, and Jewel promptly advised one singer to focus on the song’s lyrics and t

2012

Mar

GAME CHANGE By David Bianculli

Because of how much attention this HBO telemovie, starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, has gotten, I’m pointing out tonight’s prime-time repeat telecast. In the same spirit, I’ll also repeat my offer, from Saturday’s BEST BETS, that if you want to read my TV WORTH WATCHING review of Game Change, and find a link to hear my full review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, click HERE.

2012

Mar

OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER By David Bianculli

Lady Gaga, with her mother, Cynthia, along for the ride, invites Oprah Winfrey into her home, and behind the scenes, to talk about the pleasures and pressures of being one of the most visible and profitable entertainers in the world. That’s Gaga talking about that, and Oprah, too, in what amounts to a one-on-one, two-hour divapalooza.

2012

Mar

100 SHOWS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE By David Bianculli

Part 2. I’m keeping this documentary series on the viewing list because its definition of See Before You Die shows includes ones that are unspeakably bad – and by that definition, this show qualifies to make its own list. It’s that horrendous. Where to start? How about with a total lack of perspective? Last week, in an episode repeated tonight at 8 p.m. ET, The Flying Nun ranked as No. 90, The Cosby Show at No. 89, and Land of the Lost as No. 88. Roll that around your tongue fo

2012

Mar

SMASH By David Bianculli

Ivy (Megan Hilty) gets more caught up in the All About Eve and A Star is Born whirlpools swirling inside this series, in an episode that involves rejection, paranoia and drugs – and also provides a potential opening for chorus girl Karen (Katharine McPhee), her former rival for the leading role in Marilyn: The Musical.

2012

Mar

ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

It’s taken 15 episodes, but Meghan Ory, who as Ruby been waiting tables at Granny’s since the series began, finally gets her own fairy-tale story told – the story of her past life as Red Riding Hood. I’m going to watch tonight’s installment in high-definition – the better to see it with, my dear.

2012

Mar

HARRY'S LAW By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: After a brief winter hibernation, this David E. Kelley series returns on a new night and time, and with a familiar face as guest star. Christian Clemenson, who played the OCD-afflicted Jerry Espenson on Kelley’s Boston Legal, pops up here as a different attorney, with a different type of affliction. He’s a tough-talking, hard-headed lawyer named Sam – and halfway through the episode, he shows up for a meeting with Harry (Kathy Bates) with a nail sticking out of h

2012

Mar

THE UNDEFEATED By David Bianculli

It’s no accident that this 2011 documentary, pulling extensively from Sarah Palin’s audio-book reading of her memoir, Going Rogue, shows up tonight on Reelz, one day after Game Change, a dramatization based, in part, on a book covering Palin’s run on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket, premiered on HBO. But it does make it especially interesting in context, as a valuable “compare and contrast” exercise. Filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon uses Palin’s own words,

2012

Mar

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

Dylan Baker returns again, as the creepy, murderous, yet undeniably charismatic Colin Sweeney – and, once again, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) finds herself defending him. And it’s an episode that also makes room for other wonderful guest stars, including Bebe Neuwirth and Homeland co-star Morena Baccarin.

2012

Mar

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

It’s the penultimate episode of Season 2, with enough already in the rear-view mirror – literally as well as figuratively – to make tonight’s episode particularly unmissable.

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