This week’s guest star is Betty White, playing a forensics expert. And if that sounds improbable, try this: Next week, Bones will do a one-time, same-night crossover episode with… Sleepy Hollow.

2015

Oct

INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO By David Bianculli

This new edition of Inside the Actors Studio features Sarah Silverman, who’s bound to have some really funny responses, premeditated or not, to host James Lipton’s concluding questions. And maybe to some of the earlier ones, too. Her dramatic starring role in the film I Smile Back opens tomorrow, and other roles she’s likely to discuss with Lipton include her prostitute in A Million Ways to Die in the West, her lesbian in Showtime’s Masters of Sex, and herself in FX&rsquo

2015

Oct

SLEEPY HOLLOW By David Bianculli

Next week, this series presents a special Halloween crossover episode with Bones. Like tonight’s episode, it features the villain of this season’s Sleepy Hollow arc: Pandora, the mythical woman with the box full of evil. She’s played by Shannyn Sossamon (pictured) – and is not to be confused with Elizabeth Montgomery, who played a good witch on the classic Sixties sitcom Bewitched. Why might there be confusion? Because, on that witchly sitcom, Montgomery, who starred as S

2015

Oct

THE BLACKLIST By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Red (James Spader) and Liz (Megan Boone), while still on the run themselves, try to track down a mysterious woman who specializes in fulfilling fantasies of revenge. She’s called the Djinn – and perhaps next week, to conclude the story, Red and Liz will look for a man named Rummy.

2015

Oct

BACK TO THE FUTURE MARATHON By David Bianculli

Today is Oct. 21, 2015 – the day in Back to the Future Part II to which Doc and Marty time-traveled from 1989. And to note that occasion, Esquire TV is presenting a marathon of all three movies in the series, beginning at noon ET, and repeating the trio of Michael J. Fox-Christopher Lloyd films again at 7:30 p.m. ET. Which means, if you really, really love this trilogy, you can watch it once, then immediately go back to Back to the Future all over again.

2015

Oct

2015 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES By David Bianculli

Two league championship games are played today, and both could decide who goes to the World Series. The Toronto Blue Jays have the home-field advantage for today’s Game 5 in the American League Championship Series, but that’s about the only advantage the team has. Its opponent, the Kansas City Royals, has notched 15 hits against the Blue Jays two games in a row, and won Game 4 by an embarrassingly one-sided score of 14-2. The Royals lead the ALCS 3-1 – and unless the Blue Jays

2015

Oct

NATURE: "PETS: WILD AT HEART" By David Bianculli

Part 1 of 2. No animals were harmed in the making of this very friendly two-part Nature documentary. It’s a look at the “private lives” of domesticated animals, from cats and dogs to horses and hamsters. Tonight’s Part 1 is called Playful Creatures, and explains the unspoken canine rules at a neighborhood dog park, visits an amazingly verbal parakeet named Disco, and tosses out one fun fact after another. Such as: all golden hamsters come from the same family, from the pr

2015

Oct

2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES By David Bianculli

This is Game 4 in the National League Championship Series, and the Chicago Cubs host the New York Mets at Wrigley Field. But they don’t want to be too gracious as hosts, because the Mets have a 3-0 advantage in games, and can sweep the series tonight, and move on to the World Series, unless the Cubs find a way to win – tonight, and for the next several games. Does it matter that, in the Back to the Future Part II prediction about the then-future, that 2015 was the year the Cubs won t

2015

Oct

TCM GUEST PROGRAMMER: NATHAN LANE By David Bianculli

The first of the four films selected tonight by guest programmer Nathan Lane is predictable: At 8 p.m. ET, it’s Mel Brooks’ brilliant 1967 comedy The Producers, starring Zero Mostel, the film which Brooks turned into a Tony-winning Broadway musical, with Lane in the (also Tony-winning) leading role. The others are more surprising, but equally outstanding. At 9:45 p.m. ET, it’s 1976’s All the President’s Men, followed at 12:15 a.m. ET by 1979’s Being There, and

2015

Oct

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL By David Bianculli

Last week, both the flashback sequences and the present-day hotel ones were intriguing – with the best being Lady Gaga’s vampire sex scene and her post-coital instructional advice to a newly turned vampire. “Don’t fall in love,” she tells him. “That’s the part you save for me.” That led to what, I’m pretty sure, was a flashback within a flashback within a flashback, revisiting a previous tryst with another paramour (Matt Bomer). But it’

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