On this day in 1958, NBC's fledgling daytime game show, Concentration, was added to the network's prime-time lineup as a temporary replacement for Twenty-One...

2012

Oct

ELLEN DEGENERES: THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE By David Bianculli

This salute to Ellen DeGeneres was taped a week ago Monday in Washingon, D.C., the same evening as the third and final presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. Alluding to Romney’s one specific announced proposed budget cut, revealed during an earlier debate and aimed at eliminating federal funding for PBS, DeGeneres began her thank-yous by saying, to the network airing the awards ceremony, “Thanks to everyone at PBS. I’m so glad to be a part of your

2012

Oct

FREAKS By David Bianculli

Tonight, in anticipation of Halloween, TCM presents a prime-time lineup that’s so good, it’s scary – and vice versa. The triple feature begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1927’s The Unknown, an early Lon Chaney film, also starring Joan Crawford, directed by Tod Browning. It concludes at 10:30 p.m. ET with 1946’s Bedlam, a moody Boris Karloff film sometimes known as Chamber of Horrors. But the evening’s centerpiece is another Browning movie, the 1932 cult masterpie

2012

Oct

FRONTLINE: “BIG SKY, BIG MONEY, AN INVESTIGATION WITH MARKETPLACE” By David Bianculli

Kai Ryssdal, host of public radio’s Marketplace, reports on how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has played out in Montana, with local court challenges, alleged abuses by local political campaigns, and how the resultant state Senate race has escalated into a bitter contest that could well prove pivotal in each party’s hopes to control the U.S. Senate. Check local listings.

2012

Oct

DON'T TRUST THE B---- IN APARTMENT 23 By David Bianculli

In this new Halloween episode, June (Dreama Walker) is even more paranoid than usual about her eccentric roommate Chloe (Krysten Ritter), who has a history of pulling elaborate pranks for the holiday. But this year, with Chloe adopting a law-and-order costume persona, there’s nothing to worry about, right? Yeah, right.

2012

Oct

SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

Poor Jax (Charlie Hunnam) doesn’t know where to turn lately, what with the gunshot attacks, car crashes, and duplicitous gang members pointing the fingers at others. And since Clay (Ron Perlman) has falsely denied being behind the recent break-ins and beat-downs, Jax goes back to confront the next likely suspect, the deadly Pope (Harold Perrineau).

2012

Oct

1956: NBC PREMIERES 'THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1956, NBC introduced the evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report...

2012

Oct

THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA By David Bianculli

This new documentary about dyslexia might just as well have premiered on the Sundance Channel, because Robert Redford’s son James is the director – and one of the subjects at which he aims his camera is his own son, Dylan, who was diagnosed with dyslexia relatively early, at age 9. Rethinking Dyslexia explores new concepts in how to diagnose the disease – and, after that, how best to approach it.

2012

Oct

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans will get a special kick out of tonight’s episode. Its guest star is Seth Green, who, back on that clever cult series, played werewolf Oz, the boyfriend of witchy Willow – played by Alyson Hannigan (seen, with Green, in her Buffy days), now co-starring on Mother as a new mother.

2012

Oct

STEPHEN KING'S 'STORM OF THE CENTURY' By David Bianculli

Part 1 of 3. This 1999 miniseries, starring Tim Daly, is not good, by any means. But this week’s telecast of this multi-part thriller, for which Stephen King wrote the screenplay, gets plenty of points for propitious timing. In these days of “Frankenstorm,” this miniseries tells the story of a ferocious winter storm that slams into the northeastern United States and hits a small village off the mainland – bringing a mysterious man with his own spooky agenda. And no, he&rs

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