Here’s a very welcome repeat of last week’s Frontline two-hour special, The Choice 2012, a very telling, very even-handed dual biography of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. If you’re planning to vote a week from Tuesday, you really, really should watch this documentary. If you’re not planning to vote, well, I don’t understand that at all. Check local listings.

2012

Oct

HUNTED By David Bianculli

In last week’s series premiere, Sam (Melissa George) successfully established herself in the fortified Turner household as the new nanny, putting her in position to spy on scheming millionaire Jack (Patrick Malahide, who’s excellent). This week, we begin to see what she can, and can’t, do now that she’s in there, as she deals with her own trust issues as well.

2012

Oct

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

The third and final presidential debate of 2012 took place earlier this week, and now, with the election just 12 days away, Maher and company weigh in. And this week, his company is a very vocal group – including Barney Frank, Eliot Spitzer, Michael Steele and Nate Silver.

2012

Oct

THE ERNIE KOVACS COLLECTION, VOLUMES 1 & 2 By David Bianculli

Ernie Kovacs, in the 1950s and until his untimely death in 1962, was a television triple threat: an unusually naturalistic and charming host, an outrageously goofy character comic, and a TV pioneer who pushed the medium in several directions at once...

2012

Oct

‘MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR’ CELEBRATED AT PALEY CENTER – AND HEADED FOR PBS By David Bianculli

Magical Mystery Tour, the surrealistic 1967 Beatles TV special shown in the U.K., finally will premiere on TV in the States – 45 years later, newly restored, on PBS…

2012

Oct

1993: MTV PRESENTS 'THE JON STEWART SHOW' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1993, MTV introduced the 30-minute talk show, The Jon Stewart Show...

2012

Oct

2012 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

It’s Game 2, once again televised live from San Francisco, where the Detroit Tigers and the Giants hope to repeat some of their postseason heroics to make this a long and exciting World Series contest. The outcome of tonight’s game will have a lot to do with determining that…

2012

Oct

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

It’s the Halloween episode, and Howie Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), back from outer space, continues to be in a blue funk – but tonight he’s blue all over, as he and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) are costumed as Smurfs.

2012

Oct

30 ROCK By David Bianculli

The upcoming election has Jack and Liz (Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey) on opposing sides, and in this new, very timely episode, they both try to use their influence to help their candidate of choice.

2012

Oct

THE OFFICE By David Bianculli

It’s a Halloween episode, so costumes and pranks abound. But for me, the biggest draw this week is guest star Stephen Colbert, who visits as a member of the oft-mentioned, but until now never seen, a cappella singing group Here Comes Treble. And his character’s name is an even better pun: Broccoli Rob.

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