DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

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2012
Oct
22
 
 
I know, it’s a week early – but as Halloween TV treats go, this 1978 John Carpenter movie is one of the true classics. Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence star – along with Carpenter’s point-of-view direction. And between scares, do the math: Next year, this influential horror film will be 35 years old.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Season 2 ends with the Alpha team attempting to take on what could be considered the Beta team: Stanton Parrish and his bad guys. But Stanton doesn’t have one of Alpha’s new secret weapons: Summer Glau as Skylar.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
Watch the sparks fly, romantically as well as comically, as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn square off in this 1942 screwball comedy about newsroom rivals – one a sportswriter, the other a columnist. Newspaper folks, a vanishing breed, love this movie, and we shouldn’t be alone.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
By most accounts, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the first presidential debate, and President Barack Obama won the second. So here comes the third and final one, which may well be a tiebreaker of sorts. The subject is foreign policy, and the moderator is Bob Schieffer – whom I interviewed in 2008, the last time he moderated a presidential debate. For more, see this vintage, but still appropriate, Bianculli’s Blog.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
TVWW's new contributing writer, Monique Nazareth, asks a question many parents agonize over: Is television bad for my child?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
21
 
 
On this day in 1954, the CBS anthology series Climax! Mystery Theater presented the first screen adaptation of an Ian Fleming James Bond novel...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
21
 
 
The Giants, in Friday’s Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, had enough heart to take the contest back to San Francisco, where the team faces the St. Louis Cardinals in tonight’s Game 6. The cards hold a 3-2 advantage in the series, so tonight’s game determines whether or not the Giants leave their heart in San Francisco – or live on to fight another day.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
21
 
 
This fundraising event for autism-related charities is, essentially, a party thrown by the coolest kids in class. Jon Stewart is the host, and performers include everyone from Stephen Colbert and Louis C.K. to Katy Perry (pictured, performing with Jodi DiPiazza) and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Watch the Perry-DiPiazza clip on Video Worth Watching... and then dry your eyes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
21
 
 
What a treat: Tonight, TCM is devoting its prime-time lineup, and beyond, to a celebration of classic, rarely televised animation. Start at 8 p.m. ET with the Fleischer studio’s 1939 Gulliver’s Travels, a full-length cartoon that was the less successful answer to its chief rival’s earlier movie-length animated release, 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Other cartoons shown tonight include 1949’s Ragtime Bear (an early Mr. Magoo short, at 11 p.m. ET), 1950&rsqu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
21
 
 
Last week’s season premiere turned out to be the most-watched drama series of the season, and not just on cable, either. People who tuned in certainly saw a whopper of an episode – and another one arrives tonight, as the survivors come face to face with other survivors, who have been imprisoned in the prison our heroes just risked their lives to overtake and clear.