Tonight’s second installment of this very entertaining documentary about the groundbreaking Los Angeles comedy club includes reminiscences from lots of comics, from Tim Allen (who tells of how a horrid booking at a sales convention inspired his eventual “tool time” routine) and Bill Burr (pictured) – who just hosted Saturday Night Live last night.

2020

Oct

LIKE A ZOMBIE, 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' HAS RETURNED By David Hinckley

The opening for the new season of Fear the Walking Dead will remind anyone who might have forgotten that yes, folks, this is a show built on a comic book...

2020

Oct

BEST TV TOMORROW By David Bianculli

How time crawls. This is the first anniversary of our daily TVWW video offshoot, Best TV Tomorrow, in which I give a casual visual shout-out to the very best single offering on TV the next day, whether on broadcast, cable or streaming TV. The subject of the inaugural report, keyed to Oct. 10, 2019, was NBC’s The Good Place. A year later, you can see what we recommend, then stay tuned to compare it to our video a year ago, just by watching yesterday's Best TV Tomorrow for today –

2020

Oct

THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON By David Bianculli

The New Twilight Zone is the title under which Decades is presenting this weekend’s marathon – but back when CBS mounted this first revival reboot of Rod Serling’s classic anthology series, back in 1985, it was called, simply, The Twilight Zone (as is the current CBS All Access version). Two episodes, in particular, should be watched for, and watched, from today’s crop. The series premiere, shown at noon ET, includes the segment Shatterday,which stars

2020

Oct

CATS By David Bianculli

This 2019 movie version of the super-long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway musical was slammed mercilessly when it was released – but somehow, nine months into this pandemic, I’m sort of looking forward to seeing it. (And I just checked my nerd book social calendar, and Hey! I’m going to home tonight anyway! The cast, at least, sounds furry interesting: Performers include Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella, James Corden as Bustofer Jones, Judy Dench as Old Deuteronomy, Rebel Wil

2020

Oct

BLAZING SADDLES By David Bianculli

Richard Pryor was one of the writers on this Mel Brooks 1967 comedy, and Brooks had intended for Pryor to star as his Western spoof’s racism-confronting, African-American new sheriff in town, Black Bart. But the movie studio wouldn’t insure Pryor for the film (even that early, his bouts with substance abuse were well known), so Brooks cast Cleavon Little instead. Similarly, Brooks had hired Gig Young to play Black Bart’s eventual sidekick, the alcoholic Waco Kid, but on the fir

2020

Oct

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

…And speaking of last-minute replacements. Bill Burr, that very caustic and funny comedian, was scheduled to host tonight’s second SNL of the new season – and he still will. But tonight’s scheduled musical guest, country artist Morgan Wallen, was disinvited, after videos surfaced of him partying recently without social distancing or masks. His probable replacement, according to reports: Jack White. Meanwhile, I hope the SNL writers and producers have

2020

Oct

1971: 'UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS' MAKES ITS BRITISH DEBUT By TV WW

On this day in 1971, the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs debuted on Britian's ITV...

2020

Oct

1990: AUSTRALIA'S 'BANGKOK HILTON' DEBUTS IN US By TV WW

On this day in 1990, TBS debuted Part 1 of the celebrated Australian miniseries, Bangkok Hilton...

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