The new episodes of The Good Place continue, with a continuing story line that makes the outcome somewhat of a mystery – but not really, because if Eleanor (the one in heaven by mistake) is banished from the good place, there’s no more series.

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TAKING THE STAGE: AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AND STORIES THAT CHANGED AMERICA By David Bianculli

In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History was opened on Sept. 23, which is when this inaugural celebration special, filmed at the nearby Kennedy Center, was recorded. Tonight, a two-hour special built around that celebration, and a tour of the new African American museum, will be presented by ABC. I don’t know if this new African American museum will include an exhibit on the new missing hyphen in African American – but we’ll s

2017

Jan

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new episode, Carrie dates a hunk. On this show, after seven seasons, I do believe this is a first…

2017

Jan

KARAOKE SHOWDOWN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. It’s just a note, noting that Spike TV, which already has launched one TV series based on a late-night talk show segment (Lip Sync Battle, which comes from Jimmy Fallon’s shows and precedes Karaoke Showdown as its lead-in). Tonight it presents a less official one, which basically rips off and adapts the idea of James Cordon’s Carpool Karaoke segments. I haven’t seen this yet, but I have no reason, in this case, not to stick w

2017

Jan

DAVID LYNCH "PEAKS" INTEREST AT TCA17 By Bill Brioux

Weird sells at TCA. Take Monday’s Showtime session featuring David Lynch...

2017

Jan

SCHITT'S CREEK By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Schitt’s Creek, the undervalued comedy import from Canada, begins Season 3 tonight on the POP Network, still starring veterans SCTV cohorts Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara as wealthy pampered parents who, after a major financial setback, retreat to go live in a small town they once purchased as a joke, became of its name. (See the show’s title.) Levy’s son, Daniel, is a co-star and series creator.

2017

Jan

NOVA: "THE NUCLEAR OPTION" By David Bianculli

Five years after the tsunami and earthquake triggered the events of the nuclear breakdown and meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, Nova revisits the area, and the question, to ask: Is nuclear power a viable part of the world’s energy future? Or is it too unpredictable, too dangerous, and too environmentally costly? Check local listings.

2017

Jan

BLACK-ISH By David Bianculli

This series isn’t afraid to tackle sensitive or polarizing topics, such as its reputation-making episode on “the N word.” Tonight, it tackles another very sensitive topic: the T word. That’s T as in Trump, and tonight’s installment is all about the family’s reaction to the presidential election. Well, make that reactions, because little about this family unit is unified.

2017

Jan

MAN SEEKING WOMAN By David Bianculli

Last week’s Season 3 premiere set up a new recurring character in Lucy (Katie Findlay), a woman who becomes the new romantic interest of Jay Baruchel’s Josh. But this particular significant other is becoming very significant very quickly. In last week’s episode, after Josh wore out his welcome hanging out at her nicely appointed apartment with her disapproving roommates, she announced her intention to move in with him instead. This week, we see the first results of that snap de

2017

Jan

EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS By David Bianculli

This 2016 documentary relies on vintage interview clips with Frank Zappa to tell the story of the man and his music – going so far back, with the musician who burst into counter-culture prominence as the leader of the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s, that among the earliest interviews is a TV visit with Steve Allen. Zappa is eminently quoteworthy, as when he once said, “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can&

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