SEASON PREMIERE: For this seventh and final season of Parks and Recreation, Leslie (Amy Poehler) and company go back to the future – to the jump-forward to 2017 that ended last season, and resumes for these final 13 episodes. Give these last shows some attention, and some love: Poehler, Chris Pratt, Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza and Nick Offerman all have drawn more career heat in the years since Parks and Rec premiered. And personally, I was both stunned and delighted by the show’s unex

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MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER By David Bianculli

Just as The Flash premiered on the CW as an instantly more balanced and entertaining companion to its more somber parent series, Arrow, so did Marvel’s Agent Carter burst out of the starting blocks last week with a tone both lighter and more playful than that of its companion ABC series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell stars.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "KLANSVILLE, U.S.A." By David Bianculli

In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan managed to re-emerge to spread its hateful, hooded racism after two periods of relative dormancy. The first time the KKK rose again, like locusts, was after being portrayed as heroes in D.W. Griffith’s epic 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation. The second time was in 1954, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of integration in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. That was why the KKK gathered momentum again, but this new documentary examine

2015

Jan

FRONTLINE: "PUTIN'S WAY" By David Bianculli

This new Frontline provides both a biography and political assessment of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, including segments from a 1992 documentary about Putin commissioned by Putin. Not unexpectedly, but quite tellingly, it’s a more flattering portrayal of the Russian leader than provided by tonight’s Frontline – and that’s Putin it mildly. Check local listings.

2015

Jan

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK By David Bianculli

Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon are about to star in a new TV series based on Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, premiering soon on CBS. Meanwhile, tonight, as part of TCM’s month-long tribute to Robert Redford on Tuesdays, the cable network presents a movie version of another of Simon’s early Broadway comedy hits. This one, from 1967, stars young Redford, and an even younger (by one year) ingénue named Jane Fonda, as newlyweds who move into a fifth-floor New York walkup apart

2015

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ROMAN HOLIDAY By David Bianculli

Made in 1953, this romantic comedy, directed by William Wyler, stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess who slips away from her handlers while on a visit to Rome. She ends up in the care, and the apartment, of an American newspaper reporter played by Gregory Peck, who’s initially unaware of her true identity. The Roman scenery is beautiful, and so is Hepburn.

2015

Jan

COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: OREGON DUCKS VS. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES By David Bianculli

For college football, this first-ever championship contest is The Big Game in more ways than one. The semifinal games these teams won to get here (beating Florida State and Alabama, respectively) drew enough viewers – more than 28 million each – to rank as the two top-rated shows in the history of cable TV. Ever. So how big will tonight’s championship get? Expect it to be cable’s all-time biggest draw, period. And it’s especially impressive because, had this year&rs

2015

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EPISODES By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: So many good programs were shown on TV last night, it’s likely that this one, which ran at 10:30 p.m. ET, was one you missed. So here it is again, repeated a day later in an earlier time slot, to make it easier for you. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog. And to hear or read my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website.

2015

Jan

INDEPENDENT LENS: "EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL" By David Bianculli

Spike Lee is executive producer of this documentary, in which the filmmaker examines the story of a Texas teen whose circumstances led him down the path to become a young bank robber. The twist here is that the young man, Darius Clark Monroe, is also the filmmaker – now an adult, and looking back on his own teen life and, sometimes, very bad choices. Check local listings.

2015

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EYE CANDY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new 10-episode series comes from author R.L. Stine, who’s come up with a premise, starring Victoria Justice (veteran of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 and Victorious) as a young woman who’s a very gifted hacker, that’s part Veronica Mars, part Stalker – with some of the better qualities from the former, and some of the violent excesses and logical lapses of the latter. But for MTV, it’s almost literally a dramatic step forward: Justice’s Li

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