DAVID BIANCULLI

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2015
Oct
14
 
 
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dallas-based critic Ed Bark uses the Dallas-Fort Worth [D-FW] market to show why stations around the country are still vitally concerned about "overnight" Nielsen numbers instead of total viewership...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
John Benjamin Hickey jokes that his role on Manhattan is both a great acting gig and a remedial college course...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
PBS’s hour-long tribute to Mary Tyler Moore Tuesday mostly focuses on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which I suppose it should. When you’re talking Mary Tyler Moore, however, there are those among us whose go-to image isn’t Mary Richards. It’s Laura Petrie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
Rachel Brosnahan apologizes for politely stabbing little pieces of her salad as she talks about starting her second year as Abby Isaacs on WGN America’s Manhattan. It’s been a busy day for Brosnahan. Actually, it’s been a busy couple of years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
More than being enjoyable viewing for people who remember pre-thousands-of-choices television, programs like Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration are important because they pull examples of important television from out of today's video haystack...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
It’s a fiercely competitive baseball postseason – no team has swept its division series, and teams facing elimination have found a way, thus far, to stave it off. In the National League, two teams worth rooting for have taken a 2-1 lead in their respective series, and could claim victory tonight – or, like their American League counterparts tomorrow, face a series-clinching Game 5. The first of tonight’s games, both of which are televised by TBS, has the St. Louis Cardina
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
Tonight’s non-felt-covered guest star: Ed Helms.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
This new Pioneers of Television special salutes Mary Tyler Moore, with help from superfan Oprah Winfrey, who hosts, and interviews with many of her former castmates – including Carl Reiner, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which first made Moore a genuine TV star. For full stories about this new PBS special, see Tom Brinkmoeller’s Raised on MTM interview with the show’s producers – and our newest TVWW writer, David Hinckley, whose All Along the Watchtower column is a fo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
CNN has reserved a podium for Vice President Joe Biden in case he declares his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election, even if he shows up at the Las Vegas venue tonight at the last minute. But with the release of today’s White House schedule, which includes Biden participating in morning and afternoon events, that seems unlikely, if not impossible. Hillary Clinton has the center podium position, with Bernie Sanders at her immediate right. Martin O’Malley is at Clinton’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Oct
13
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: William Petersen (pictured) joins the cast for Season 2, as the new leader of the Los Alamos facility charged with developing the atomic bomb. Physicist Frank Winter, played by John Benjamin Hickey, was carted away by the military at the end of Season 1, and begins this new season incarcerated in a Guantanamo-type top-secret prison. Hickey gets to really shine in this season opener – as does Olivia Williams, who plays his wife, Liza, whose learning of the government’