SEASON PREMIERE: Eight new episodes of this history-on-the-fly political nonfiction series appear on Showtime, beginning with tonight’s season premiere. Mark McKinnon, John Heilemann, and Alex Wagner return. And their attention, this week, is partly on the Democratic hopefuls for the 2020 presidential race, and partly on the latest scandal embroiling our current President. Just in time for the Circus premiere, this week it’s a big one, involving Ukraine, the U.S. intelligen

2019

Sep

ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA By David Bianculli

Both Krystal and Cody managed to catch the eye and ears of the mercurial founder of FAM, using very different methods: Krystal made a scrapbook presentation, and Cody killed a pelican. And both methods eventually worked, setting the stage for one of TV’s oddest couples to rise significantly in the FAM social structure this week.

2019

Sep

'MR. INBETWEEN' IS A HITMAN STORY THAT'S…FUN By David Hinckley

Ray Shoesmith remains, without question, the funniest hitman on television...

2019

Sep

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD By David Bianculli

Harper Lee’s unforgettable novel about childhood, parenthood, bigotry and the law was made into this marvelous 1962 film – made even more unforgettable and marvelous by the performance of Gregory Peck as small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. This film always is worth watching – but even more so if you’ve seen Aaron Sorkin’s brilliant Broadway version of Lee’s story, starring Jeff Daniels as a more flawed, still evolving Atticus. I’ve seen the Broadway play th

2019

Sep

2019 CREATIVE ARTS EMMY AWARDS By David Bianculli

Tomorrow night is the live Fox telecast of the prime-time Emmys. Tonight, sister cable network FXX presents taped coverage of last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which includes such categories as Outstanding Creative Archievement in Interactive Media Within a Scripted Program. (The winner – well-deserved, by the way – is Netflix’s Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror.) The categories also include Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), w

2019

Sep

THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART By David Bianculli

The first movie in this comedy franchise took everyone by surprise, especially by being much funnier and more original than expected. As with most sequels, this 2019 follow-up doesn’t deliver on either count nearly as much. But if you really enjoyed The Lego Movie, you’ll enjoy this one, too. Or this one, 2.

2019

Sep

'CRIMINAL' EXAMINES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL OVER THE PHYSICAL OF INVESTIGATIONS By David Hinckley

Most police procedurals, for obvious reasons, focus on the most dramatic and physically engaging parts of the criminal apprehension process...

2019

Sep

CAN THE BROADCAST NETWORKS KEEP UP THIS FALL? By Mike Hughes

Let's check the calendar one more time. Is this really the second half of September? Then shouldn't we be abuzz about the new shows on the big broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox?...

2019

Sep

BETWEEN TWO FERNS: THE MOVIE By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This spinoff movie takes the concept of Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifianakis’ brilliantly awkward fake talk show, and makes a fake documentary about the making of it. On camera, on one of the sequences introducing this new approach, the host refers to it as Behind Two Ferns– and also talks about it as a peek behind his “award-losing talk show.” Scenes with members of the talk show’s support staff, and executives at the local-access ope

2019

Sep

CRIMINAL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This international experiment in TV drama takes the same confined setting – a high-tech police interrogation room – and populates it with different sets of actors playing investigators, with each episode devoted to interrogating a different suspect. There are four series in all, and all premiere today on Netflix. Criminal: United Kingdom is the easiest entry point, because it’s all in English, and the defendant in the first case is played by guest sta

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