Sometimes, TV can really take you by surprise and serve up a delightful, unexpected treat. Tuesday night, Fox did just that, in its latest episode of Raising Hope, by giving an extended, unexpected, very funny nod to a 42-year-old TV theme song by Harry Nilsson...

2011

Mar

TV'S OFFICIAL NOW-WE-HAVE-SEEN-EVERYTHING MOMENT By Diane Werts

If this isn't it...From Bravo: Pregnant in Heels, "a docudrama following Rosie Pope, maternity concierge to the most affluent expecting mothers in New York City." Since you're now dying to know when you can see it, Bravo premieres the series on Tuesday, April 5 at 10 p.m. ET...

2011

Mar

GREETINGS FROM TOON TOWN: THE SPY, THE SAVANT AND A ROBOT CHICKEN By Eric Gould

Back in the day, cartoon characters lived on the wrong side of the tracks -- a noirish, seedy Los Angeles neighborhood called Toon Town (1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?). The idea was that Toons, as they were slurred, were fully formed cartoons living alongside us in the real-action world: hustling, conniving C-level actors and two-bit criminals not to be trusted. Well, so they remain. Most of the Toons living on cable and the net are still on society's fringe...

2011

Mar

FLICK PICKS: TCM'S BACK IN GEAR By Diane Werts

Now here's why I love Turner Classic Movies. Besides no cuts and no commercials, TCM does quality stack-ups like the two don't-touch-that-dial nights coming up this weekend. Saturday night starts with "Cool Hand Luke", where hard-labor convict Paul Newman has a '60s "failure to communicate" with drawling jailer Strother Martin...

2011

Mar

SINGING THE PRAISES OF 'TROUBADOURS' ON PBS 'AMERICAN MASTERS' By David Bianculli

troubadours-my-top.jpgWe've just been sucked into one of those infernal March public broadcasting pledge-break whirlpools, so Wednesday's PBS showing of Troubadours: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter (8 pm. ET; check local listings) may be on at a different time, even if a different night, where you live. But please find it, because this latest American Masters special is a pleasure to hear AND see...

2011

Mar

CHARLIE SHEEN, 'IN HIS OWN WORDS' - AND, ON ABC, WITH HIS OWN ROPE By David Bianculli

Hollywood's latest loose-cannon, volatile celebrity is the subject of tonight's hastily and eagerly scheduled ABC 20/20 special (10 pm. ET), titled Charlie Sheen: In His Own Words. ABC may as well have called it Charlie Sheen: With His Own Rope, because, based on excerpts aired already on Good Morning America, the star of Two and a Half Men hangs himself with almost every new, rambling, often frightening utterance...

2011

Mar

83D ANNUAL OSCAR TELECAST REACTIONS: WHY SO NEGATIVE? By Ed Martin

While watching ABC's telecast of the 83d Annual Academy Awards Sunday night, you would never guess, if you didn't already know, that it was one of the two most important events on the broadcast calendar. There was nothing particularly big or important or exciting about it; nothing dramatic, nothing suspenseful, nothing spectacular and nothing to warrant ferocious blogging...

2011

Mar

IMAGINING A VERY SPECIAL FINAL EPISODE OF 'TWO AND A HALF MEN' By P.J. Bednarski

The Charlie Sheen show, now playing on almost every channel, is just another in a series of self-deprecating screams that once would have happened in private, and now happen in front of everybody around the world. The fall of Charlie Sheen was predictable. Vegas should have odds on his death by now. And yet...

2011

Mar

PBS 'TROUBADOURS' IS A SCENIC TOUR THROUGH A MAGICAL MUSICAL ERA By Tom Brinkmoeller

"Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor and the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter," the newest "American Masters" masterwork, premieres Wednesday on PBS (8 p.m. ET -- check local listings). Consuming its contents, for many fans of that music, will be as revelatory as they are enjoyable...

2011

Feb

OSCARS 2011: FINAL AWARD IS ANTI-'SOCIAL,' BUT THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE AS 'KING' GETS CROWNED By David Bianculli

Even if you were hoping for the timeliness of The Social Network to upset the staidness of The King's Speech at Sunday's 83d Annual Academy Awards, the ABC telecast provided drama until the end -- and lots of nice moments, and story angles, and even some welcome changes to carry over for next year...

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