This new CNN History of Comedy installment is called In It Together, and is all about comedy teams. We’re sure to hit the Marx Brothers, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Cheech and Chong, even Key & Peele – but if this installment doesn’t give proper respect to Tom and Dick Smothers, I’ll be outraged. I always liked them best…

2018

Aug

WHO IS AMERICA? By David Bianculli

I keep waiting to see how Sacha Baron Cohen will interact with Sarah Palin, because she’s complained in advance about her treatment as one of these show’s unwitting targets. (The wit, in some of these cases, may be a fluid discussion point.) But we’ve now heard hints, from the Cohen camp, that what they filmed with Palin may not even make the cut for these remaining Season 1 episodes. I hope that’s just a rumor, but I’ll keep watching this show anyway. Besides, it&r

2018

Aug

GARY COOPER TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s “Summer Under the Stars” TCM subject is Gary Cooper, whose all-day, all-night salute includes such classics as 1936’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (at 1:30 p.m. ET) and 1949’s The Fountainhead (at 6 p.m. ET). And while not every great Cooper movie is shown today (no High Noon?), the list is a tantalizing one, and incudes a powerful prime-time double feature starting at 8 p.m. ET: 1942’s Pride of the Yankees (pictured), followed immediately by a movie Coope

2018

Aug

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

Because rain forced suspension of yesterday’s round two, the conclusion of that round is being played early today, with coverage available beginning at 8 a.m. ET on TNT. Second-round coverage yesterday, also on TNT, was fun to watch, and once again, Tiger Woods, who scored only a par round on day one, began day two with a vengeance, notching three birdies in seven holes before inclement weather rained on his parade. (When Woods resumed play this morning, his first hole resulted in another

2018

Aug

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS By David Bianculli

This 2017 movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a star-studded adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic, and stars, among others, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Josh Gad. Branagh heads the list as intrepid Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

2018

Aug

AMAZON PRIME PRESENTS 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' By David Hinckley

Getting on television, much as it has become the American dream, hasn’t done much for the happiness of several characters in a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ordeal By Innocence...

2018

Aug

'THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY' IS AN ENDEARING DRAMA DURING WARTIME By David Hinckley

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the sort of production one used to see in movie theaters...

2018

Aug

ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: It’s a new three-part Agatha Christie period mystery adaptation from England, but it’s not from PBS – or even, these days, Acorn. This particular miniseries comes from England, and puts the usually scruffy Bill Nighy (pictured) in posh threads as the widower patriarch of a well-to-do family. He’s about to remarry, which may be the worst possible time for new information to surface about his previous wife’s murder. Co-stars include Matthew Goode,

2018

Aug

INSATIABLE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series has been slammed more than almost any series in the streaming service’s history, accusing the dark comedy of fat-shaming and a litany of other major and minor sins. But actually, it plays like a sort of young-adult Desperate Housewives, with both its outrage and its character parodies spread in all directions. (There weren't a lot of proper role models there, either. Just a few models.) Debby Ryan plays a former fat girl who, after becoming thin and

2018

Aug

DEMETRI MARTIN: THE OVERTHINKER By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: If you’ve seen any previous comedy specials featuring Demetri Martin, you already know whether you like his left-field, low-volume approach. And if this is your first exposure, you’ll know soon enough…

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