The new 40th-anniversary reissue of Simon & Garfunkel's classic Bridge Over Troubled Water LP is something you really, truly owe it to yourself to see. Yes, see. Because, while the music on the CD is as timeless and brilliant as ever, the two TV specials on the accompanying DVD are what make this new mixed-media release a gold mine, rather than a mere upgrade...

2011

Mar

KARL PILKINGTON ON SCIENCE CHANNEL'S 'AN IDIOT ABROAD': IDIOT, YES, BUT SAVANT, TOO By Mark Bianculli

Saturday's Science Channel marathon showing of An Idiot Abroad (2:30-11 p.m. ET) gives viewers the chance to catch up on episodes they missed, or to be introduced, in one massive dose, to a TV travel host with a unique difference. He hates to travel...

2011

Mar

CBS'S NEXT MOVE, POST-CHARLIE SHEEN: MY TWO AND A HALF CENTS By Mike Donovan

Recently there have been any number of suggestions on how to save CBS's Two and a Half Men in the wake of the Charlie Sheen meltdown. Replacements for poor Charlie have included, among others, Matt Dillon, John Stamos and Rob Lowe...But I think we could learn from the past that there are other creative solutions...

2011

Mar

NBC: HURTS SO BAD By Ed Bark

Has a big-time broadcast network ever been in sorrier prime-time shape than NBC? The network's new owner, Comcast, and its new entertainment president, Showtime export Robert Greenblatt, have miles to go before they can even feel safely ahead of Univision. And given the ongoing population shifts, that day might well never come...

2011

Mar

UNDER SIEGE IN CONGRESS, PUBLIC BROADCASTING HAS BOARDROOM SUPPORT By Tom Brinkmoeller

In an era when government funding for public radio and television seems to be under new attack, the importance of program underwriters has risen sharply. And despite economics and politics, some big companies have continued their support...

2011

Mar

I SAID IT FIRST, AND NOW NEIL PATRICK HARRIS AGREES: HE SHOULD HOST A TV VARIETY SHOW By David Bianculli

Two years ago, after Neil Patrick Harris delivered standout turns as host of The TV Land Awards and, for CBS, the much bigger stage of the 2009 Tony Awards, I wrote the following sentence of praise: "If Justin Timberlake doesn't want to be the guy to single-handedly save the TV variety show, maybe Neil Patrick Harris does." And now, it turns out, there's no "maybe" about it. He wants the job -- and CBS should be the network to give it to him...

2011

Mar

FLICK PICKS: JEAN HARLOW, STILL SIZZLING By Diane Werts

Hollywood's original blonde bombshell only lived to be 26 years old. But she made 20 films that make her worth showcasing as Turner Classic Movies' star of the month on Tuesdays through March. And 75 years after her death, movie mavens still know -- and love -- Jean Harlow...

2011

Mar

SOME PLEDGE SHOWS ARE WELL WORTH WATCHING -- IF YOU CAN FIND THEM By David Bianculli

Want to see a new televised concert version of Billy Joel's 2008 farewell to Shea Stadium? You should, because it's a true TV treat. Finding it, though, is more of a trick. Like other good but hard-to-pin-down public TV offerings this month, it's a pledge special -- the TV-scheduling version of Whack-a-Mole...

2011

Mar

'THOUSANDS OF CHOICES' AND NOT ONE TO BE FOUND By Tom Brinkmoeller

On March 4, two Republican U.S. senators introduced legislation that isn't that unique in the Washington, D.C., that exists today. Their bill would end all government funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the same idea that has longer roots in the U.S. House of Representatives...

2011

Mar

WHY I LIKE NBC'S NEW 'AMERICA'S NEXT GREAT RESTAURANT' SERIES -- BUT FIRST, WHY I LIKE OUR TVWW CORRESPONDENTS By David Bianculli

I'm about to provide a review of NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant, which premieres Sunday (8 p.m. ET). And as a veteran TV critic, an amateur chef, and a fan of Bravo's Top Chef (whose producers created this new reality-competition series), I feel eminently qualified to do so...

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