DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2019
Oct
1
 
 
Last week’s premiere episode laid on the improbabilities rather thickly, and tried a bit too much to be ABC’s newest mysterious-mystery series – but Allison Tolman from FX’s Fargo remains an instantly appealing series lead, and, playing police chief Jo Evans here, she’s helped by such likable veterans as Clancy Brown and Donald Faison. Alexa Swinton plays the mysterious little girl she finds at a beachfront plane crash site, and after one episode, all we k
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
1
 
 
Sunday on CBS’s season premiere of 60 Minutes, there was a preview of this Frontline report, as well as a new CBS interview, all seeking the same information from Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman: how involved was he in the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Check local listings. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
30
 
 
Two stories, two perspectives. Saudi Arabia announced just this past weekend that it’s now open for tourism — a first...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
30
 
 
Last week’s series premiere set up Chuck Lorre’s newest sitcom as a sweet enough premise: heart patient Bob (Billy Gardell) takes a serious liking to one of his medical caregivers, Nigerian nurse Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku). Tonight, their relationship deepens – or, actually, it shallows, because if their courtship moves too quickly, this show loses much of its initial comedy and drama.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
30
 
 
In week two, the blind auditions continue. Presumably, so does the scene-stealing, Blake-blocking behavior of returning judge Gwen Stefani.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
30
 
 
Last week, Candy’s wealthy new boyfriend offered her all the money she needed to make her next porn film – but she turned him down, preferring to raise the funds herself and keep their relationship on a personal level. Tonight, she seeks out new sources for money, and also looks for some stars for her upcoming movie. One place she might look: to her former star Lori (Emily Meade), who’s now trying to shift to performing as background talent in mid-Eighties music videos for the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
29
 
 
With Godfather of Harlem, organized crime continues its steady march toward becoming one of America's leading racial levelers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
29
 
 
Oh, look. There are the mighty cliffs of Cornwall, sweeping down to the ocean, and galloping along the earthen pathways of those cliffs is a rider astride a noble steed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
29
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This CBS series launched in 1968, and is the oldest continuous TV series in prime time. And after more than half a century, 60 Minutes still manages to win its time slot, and often rank in the week’s Top 10. How? Because it still delivers, week in and week out, some of the best reporting on some of the most current and/or fascinating subjects. Tonight’s Season 52 opener is a perfect example: It leads with Scott Pelley’s interviews with House Speaker N
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
29
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Here’s another of the current prime-time series that, by now, is one of TV’s most tenured nighttime shows. It’s The Simpsons, which launched as a spinoff from The Tracey Ullman Show in 1989 with a full-length Christmas special, and is now beginning Season 31. And it’s doing so with an episode that has a video of Homer and Bart arguing – a video that goes viral and turns them into media celebrities. (Wonder if Bart will start his