SEASON FINALE: I’m writing Season Finale, rather than Series Finale, because I’m hoping PBS will be smart enough to order more installments of this engaging, inspirational and wholly delightful food and travel show from Phil Rosenthal. Otherwise, tonight is the final outing of I’ll Have What Phil’s Having, and though he doesn’t travel far – tonight’s subject is his adopted city of Los Angeles – he serves up good food and great fun. On-camera guests

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FARGO By David Bianculli

Episode 4 of this second season of Fargo is intense, outrageous, and brilliantly wry, hurtling its characters towards an obviously bloody and deadly confrontation. Tonight, one of the bad guys, doing some detective work, links some broken glass found at the crime scene outside the Waffle Hut to a particular car under repair – and getting to learn the identity of the car’s owners makes for another superb low-key interrogation scene on this show. People seldom raise their voices, but y

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THE LEISURE CLASS By David Bianculli

This is the movie that fledgling film director Jason Mann (pictured), the winner of this season’s Project Greenlight, toiled so hard to make, working with – and often against – his film crew. The stars of the movie are Bruce Davison, Ed Weeks and Bridget Regan, but the real star of Project Greenlight this year was Effie Brown, the project’s female producer, diversity conscience, and sole voice of reason. Tonight, we see, finally, the result of the collaboration, and clash

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BLACK WORK By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new three-part drama from the U.K., rolling out on Mondays beginning today on Acorn TV, stars Sheridan Smith as Jo Gillespie, a policewoman whose husband, an undercover cop, is killed under suspicious circumstances. Jo is told to leave the investigation to her fellow cops – but the more she persists and discovers, the more she feels her fellow cops may be in on the murder. For more, visit the Acorn TV website.

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Tonight, the Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) finds himself cornered, and desperate, and determined to save his only loved one from the clutches of rivals. This means war. And, on Gotham, it’s a war in which both sides of the law will get heavily involved, and be very heavily armed.

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UPCOMING AWARDS SEASON GEARED FOR HYPE By David Hinckley

The fresh rollout of star hosts for the Oscar, Golden Globes and People’s Choice awards suggests that once again, someone’s thinking that mere awards winners may not be enough to sell these shows...

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2015 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

Last night, the Kansas City Royals waited until the eighth inning to wrest control of the game from the New York Mets – but did so with emphasis, taking advantage of ill-timed Mets errors to tie, then win, Game 4. That gives the Royals a 3-1 edge in games in this year’s World Series, and they can win it all unless the Mets, on their home field, manage to triumph tonight and earn the right to fight, and play, another day.

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SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL By David Bianculli

On Thursday, one of the NFL’s few remaining undefeated teams this season, the New England Patriots, beat the Miami Dolphins to maintain its undefeated status. Tonight, one of the teams playing will not be so fortunate, because two undefeated teams are playing each other – the first time that’s happened this late in the season. It’s the Green Bay Packers vs. the Denver Broncos, and only one team will emerge with a perfect record – unless they tie, in which case they

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THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode ended with the same surprising cliffhanger that has ended at least three other episodes of The Good Wife: The offer from one lawyer to another to partner up. And each time it happens, the ground beneath this show’s characters shifts, as do the many complicated allegiances. Few TV shows shake up the status quo of the established format once, much less regularly – but The Good Wife is superb at serving up surprises, and making the most of new situations, venue

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

What a controversy surrounded last week’s episode, when one of its favorite characters appeared to have met his demise at the hands, and teeth, of a horde of walkers. But it seems obvious, as well as probable, that this particular character will live to fight, rather than bite, another day. And to its credit, the follow-up talk show last week, The Talking Dead, did not add that character to its constantly updated tally of victims. So I’m predicting a happy outcome for once – an

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