The CW’s only new fall series is unabashedly “girly” and probably not for anyone with a “Man Cave” mentality and/or a strong aversion to show tunes. But Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s bright, sprightly premiere is another step up in quality...

2015

Oct

2015 AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL DIVISION SERIES By David Bianculli

Because the Toronto Blue Jays staved off elimination last night, the team lived to play another day – and that day is today, at 4 p.m. ET, with the Texas Rangers enjoying a 2-1 series lead. But first, there’s another American League Division Series Game 4: The Kansas City Royals vs. the Houston Astros, with the Astros leading that series 2-1. That game begins at 1 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1, the first half of an AL doubleheader.

2015

Oct

2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL DIVISION SERIES By David Bianculli

The remaining National League teams play today also, in Game 3 of their respective series. First up, at 6 p.m. ET, is the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs contest, which switches to Wrigley Field for Game 3, each team having won one game so far. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET, is Game 3 of another series currently tied at 1-1, the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. the New York Mets. Game 2 was especially significant because of Dodger base-runner Chase Utley’s arguably late slide into second base on a pot

2015

Oct

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

This season’s first half of episodes has been dubbed “The Rise of the Villains,” but last week one of the villains fell – as in died, killed by one of his own, and apparently spreading his evil insane sensibility like a video gone viral. And this week, a new actor joins the cast, but on the heroic side, playing Gotham City’s new police captain. Well, maybe he’s on the heroic side. After all, he’s played by Michael Chiklis – and last time Chiklis pl

2015

Oct

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Last year, the CW gave us one of the best new shows of the season, somewhat unexpectedly, with Jane the Virgin. This year, the CW introduces only one new series for fall, but, once again, it’s hit the ball out of the park. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, premiering tonight, stars Rachel Bloom as a young, Ally McBeal-ish lawyer who impulsively moves to a Los Angeles suburb to be near a former teen crush whom she just encountered on the street in New York, and who mentioned he was movi

2015

Oct

THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW By David Bianculli

RERUN RETURN: getTV already has unearthed some long-dormant TV Westerns for our enjoyment, and now it’s tackling other TV genres – specifically, the vintage variety show and talk show. Monday nights, beginning tonight, getTV presents 8 p.m. ET showings of The Judy Garland Show from 1963-64. It opens with a repeat of the premiere, which itself opens with a full orchestra performing a full-length overture, before Judy Garland even appears (ah, for TV’s slower, less frenetic days)

2015

Oct

JANE THE VIRGIN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: In last season’s cliffhanger, Jane (Gina Rodriguez) had her baby – and then had it taken away from her, kidnapped just after the boy was born. Tonight’s Season 2 premiere picks up from there, resolves that plot, and keeps moving – quickly.

2015

Oct

I'LL HAVE WHAT PHIL'S HAVING By David Bianculli

This week, Phil Rosenthal travels to Paris – and I haven’t seen this episode, so I don’t know if he’s been to any of the places I sampled when I visited there a few years ago. But I haven’t forgotten a lot of it, including, from a small storefront bakery, my first bite of a ham and brie baguette, which buckled my knees. Check local listings.

2015

Oct

FARGO By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is both a season and a series premiere, technically, because it’s a prequel to last year’s excellent season-long story line – traveling back decades in time to 1979, to a case investigated by young lawman Lou Solverson (played here by Patrick Wilson, as a more youthful version of the character played in Season 1 of Fargo by Keith Carradine) and grizzled veteran Hank Larsen, played by Ted Danson. I’ve seen four episodes of this new season of Fargo, an

2015

Oct

HIGH EXPECTATIONS: AND FX'S 'FARGO' EXCEEDS THEM WITH AN EXHILARATING RETURN By Ed Bark

Superlatives are in order and they shall be showered on FX’s Fargo. Season 2’s iteration of the near-legendary 1996 movie is by far the cream of the fall series crop...

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