60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft has interviewed Barack Obama one-on-one more than any other TV journalist. Tonight, the two of them engage in a recently recorded final, 11th-hour debriefing.

2017

Jan

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

The Simpsons has been presenting TV episodes since 1989, and even mounted a full-length movie a decade ago – but tonight’s installment, “The Great Phatsby,” is the first one-hour episode in its amazingly long and impressive history. It’s about a long-time rival of Mr. Burns, a successful rapper named “Jay-G.” And the Great Gatsby references go on from there – as do the references to Empire, a fellow Fox TV hit. Taraji P. Henson, who plays the outra

2017

Jan

VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Jenna Coleman, who impressed me very much when she played the companion on Doctor Who from 2012 to 2015, gets a role here that befits the talent she displayed on that long-running cult series. Here, she plays Queen Victoria, starting from the day the teenager became queen of England in 1837. This first season follows her first three years as Queen – and even if you don’t think of this as an unofficial companion series to Netflix’s The Crown, about Queen Elizabe

2017

Jan

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For this new season, Carrie (Claire Danes) comes to New York, as does the series – for a prescient new season in which there’s an incoming U.S. president with a strong distrust of the intelligence community. The only thing the writers of this show got wrong: The new POTUS is a woman. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town. The Bronx is up, and Carrie is down… For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and information on what to expect from t

2017

Jan

DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE WORLD OF ‘SNEAKY PETE’ By David Hinckley

Right up front, Amazon’s new crime drama Sneaky Pete follows a small-time con man who’s trying to avoid getting himself and his brother killed by a much more hard-core bad guy...

2017

Jan

NFL FOOTBALL NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

It’s the Seattle Seahawks (11-5-1) at the Atlanta Falcons (11-5) for today’s first postseason game of the weekend. It’ll be a game where the quarterbacks drive the action more than usual this time of year, with Falcons QB Matt Ryan and Seahawks QB Russell Wilson both riding hot streaks into the playoffs.

2017

Jan

NFL FOOTBALL AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

In this game, it’s the Houston Texans (10-7) facing the dominant New England Patriots (14-2). The key to the game? Patriots QB Tom Brady. If the Texans can’t stop and hurry him, this game’s over before it starts.

2017

Jan

NOW YOU SEE ME 2 By David Bianculli

Not a recommendation: It’s more sleight of hand, and slight plot and characterization, in this sequel to the movie about a band of sneaky magicians. If you saw the first Now You See Me, maybe, for the sequel, now you don’t.

2017

Jan

MONEY MONSTERS By David Bianculli

This is the cable premiere of the 2016 movie in which George Clooney stars as an on-air TV personality targeted in a live hostage situation on television. Julia Roberts plays a quick-thinking, quicker-talking producer hoping to contain the volatile situation.

2017

Jan

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Felicity Jones, star of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is the guest host of this new edition, and Sturgill Simpson is the musical guest. And while I realize Alec Baldwin won’t be available every week to portray Donald Trump, this week would seem to be an especially fortuitous installment for him to come play.

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