I usually really look forward to, and enjoy, TV programs in which I have absolutely no idea, and no confident way of predicting, what will happen next. But with this Georgia dual senatorial runoff, especially after last weekend’s Donald Trump phone recording and last night’s Trump “campaign” appearance, to say it’s going to be an unpredictable viewing experience is to understate the obvious. And for almost precisely half of us, it’ll be show with a devastating

2021

Jan

ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Is it just me, or has this already impressive and inventive musical drama gotten even more poignant and potent in its post-COVID return? Okay, so it could just be me. But I don’t think so. Zoey, played so perfectly and artfully by Jane Levy, returns for Season 2 trying to deal with her own drama, trauma, and isolation – and almost everyone around her is dealing with challenging problems of his or her own. I’d forgotten how much this series, with its musical int

2021

Jan

THIS IS US By David Bianculli

Four episodes of this series’ Season 5 were broadcast last fall, but there hasn’t been a new installment of This Is Us since last November. But here, finally, is the first fresh outing of 2021, called “A Long Road Home.” And it has been, for all of us watching all of Us.

2021

Jan

A TRIUMPHANT RETURN FOR 'ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST' By Mike Hughes

To savor Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist – which starts its second season Tuesday – you must buy into one tiny little premise. OK, it's actually a huge premise...

2021

Jan

A COMPLEX MURDER MYSTERY, 'TRACES,' COMES TO BRITBOX By David Hinckley

If you can live with a major coincidence in the setup, the British drama Traces grows into a nicely tense murder mystery...

2021

Jan

'PBS AMERICAN PORTRAIT' IN THE TIME OF COVID By Mike Hughes

We hear a lot about "the American dream" – especially when a pandemic might sideswipe it...

2021

Jan

1957: THE BUMSTEADS TRY TELEVISION By TV WW

On this day in 1957, NBC attempted to bring Columbia Pictures' hit feature film franchise, Blondie, to the small screen...

2021

Jan

CHURCHILL AND THE MOVIE MOGUL By David Bianculli

U.S. PREMIERE: This 2019 documentary from BBC Four is the British equivalent of Argo – a true story, and a fascinating one, about a previously secret arrangement between the film industry and the government. In Argo, it was the way in which Hollywood producers worked with and for the CIA to secure the safe passage of Americans in hiding in Iran during the hostage crisis of the 1970s. In this new documentary, it’s the way in which Winston Churchill worked eagerly,

2021

Jan

30 COINS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This 2020 eight-episode Spanish miniseries, produced by HBO Spain, is a horror drama typing all sorts of supernatural weirdness to the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ. The whereabouts and dark power of those coins reveals itself early and often in 30 Coins, which feels a bit like a less restrained, less focused Lovecraft Country. You’ll be able to decide early whether you want to go along on this subtitled but hardly su

2021

Jan

INDEPENDENT LENS: “A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM By David Bianculli

This new documentary entry for PBS and Independent Lens is about the NFL’s historical, and still ongoing, treatment of unequal and unfair pay, and the low (and sometimes nonexistent) salaries paid to the organization’s pro football cheerleaders. Eventually, some of those cheerleaders begin to protest, and organize, to fight for fairer treatment and wages. Gimme an S! Gimme a T! Gimme an R! Gimme an I-K-E! Check local listings.

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