This AFC wild card game pits the Pittsburgh Steelers, who won the AFC North, against the Baltimore Ravens, who squeaked in by securing the last available wild-card slot. Now it’s all or nothing – and in the regular season, each team claimed a victory against the other, so expect a tough fight.

2015

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests: Eddie Redmayne, who stars as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything; Liam Neeson; Anna Kendrick; Olympic gold medal cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins; and musical guest Conchita.

2015

Jan

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE By David Bianculli

A 1955 classic, tapping into the angst of a younger generation and helping to make James Dean an instant, and seemingly indelible, icon of youthful restlessness and sensitivity.

2015

Jan

THE WALKING DEAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

The series-to-date marathon continues – and today, all day, we get the most recent episodes, with our favorite survivors separated into smaller groups, and facing various, usually very serious, dangers.

2015

Jan

THE ODD COUPLE By David Bianculli

Fridays in January this new year, it’s Neil Simon night – and this first Friday of 2015 begins with the comic playwright’s classic 1968 movie version of his hit Broadway play. Walter Matthau plays slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison, and Jack Lemmon is recently divorced fussbudget Felix Ungar. Watch because, in a few months, Matthew Perry will be starring in a new sitcom spinoff – playing, somewhat surprisingly, the Oscar role. But also watch because this movie is flat-ou

2015

Jan

BILLY JOEL: “THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE” By David Bianculli

This songwriting salute to Billy Joel includes him in the action as an observer, a participant (he gets on stage at the end), and in full-length vintage performance clips. The best clip – Joel and his band in their prime – is from their groundbreaking 1987 concert trip to Russia, and has them burning through “Only the Good Die Young,” bowling over the excited Russian youngsters with undiluted American rock ’n’ roll. And when Joel takes the stage to cap this tr

2015

Jan

WIVES WITH KNIVES By David Bianculli

It’s been a few years since Investigation Discovery launched this docudrama series recreating cases about women either defending themselves, or on the attack, with sharp blades. It’s one of the few first-run series on TV tonight – and though I’m by no means recommending it, I am listing it here to point out one thing that occurred to me, given the show’s title. Were this program on the Food Network, it’d be a completely different type of TV series.

2015

Jan

THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS By David Bianculli

Another entry in tonight’s TCM salute to Neil Simon, this 1970 move stars Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as visitors to New York, whose every bite of the Big Apple leads to something very sour. If you want to understand, or relive, the urban squalor of the big city circa 1970, this is it. Simon’s dialogue, and the acting by the stars, is very funny – but the location photography is dismally, and intentionally, depressing. It’s followed at midnight ET by a much earlier, Simo

2015

Jan

FARGO MARATHON By David Bianculli

All 10 episodes of FX’s delightfully different take on the Joel and Ethan Coen Fargo film, a series that presented its own characters and story but kept the original spirit intact, are presented today by sister network FXM. It’s a very different way to begin the New Year – but also a very, very good one. Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton star.

2015

Jan

2015 ROSE BOWL By David Bianculli

Well, here it is – the day of the semifinal games for the brand new College Football Playoff. Four teams play today in two games, and the winners of those games move on to the national championship 11 days from now. First up, in the Rose Bowl: the defending national champions, the Florida State Seminoles (seeded No. 3), battle the No. 2 seed, the Oregon Ducks. Both teams feature hot young quarterbacks: FSU’s Jameis Winston and Oregon’s Marcus Mariota.

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