As streaming networks battle for viewers, Peacock's special weapon is comedy. It has lots of it – new and old, good and bad, silly and satirical. And it has just added more...

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THE GOES WRONG SHOW By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: All six installments of this stage comedy series from BBC One are imported today by Amazon, and their overall cleverness and wittiness should impress you. It comes from the Mischief comedy troupe, the same folks that concocted and starred in the West End and Broadway comedy hit The Play That Goes Wrong. And this TV variant presents six “plays,” each in a different genre, purportedly performed by the Cornley Dramatic Society in front of a live audience. The

2020

Aug

NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN By David Bianculli

It’s been 15 years since Martin Scorsese directed his six-hour, two-part artistic biography of Bob Dylan for PBS’s American Masters. It’s an amazing documentary, in depth more than scope – it covers only the years 1961 to 1966, which works out to about one year per hour. But what electrifying years they were… in more ways than one. And AXS repeats the entire documentary today in one place, bringing it all back home.

2020

Aug

BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN By David Bianculli

I first noticed Margot Robbie when she co-starred as Christina Ricci’s sister in ABC’s 2011 period drama Pan Am. Two years later, everyone noticed her as Robbie had an attention-getting featured role, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in The Wolf of Wall Street. And since then, she’s played movie roles as diverse as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya and Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But throughout, she’s taken time out to play DC

2020

Aug

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS By David Bianculli

This 1951 musical is tonight’s selection as one of “The Essentials,” as chosen by guest co-host Brad Bird – whose taste, this season, has been impeccable. And tonight, there’s the amazing extended ballet ending to An American in Paris, one of the high watermarks of movie musical history. Gene Kelly stars – and in that finale, gets to embody one classic painting after another, and not only bring them to life, but bring them to dance.

2020

Aug

1992: HBO INTRODUCES 'THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW' By TV WW

On this day in 1992, HBO introduced the satirical comedy, The Larry Sanders Show, which starred comedian Garry Shandling as host of a Tonight Show-style talk show...

2020

Aug

1965: BEATLES TAPE FINAL 'ED SULLIVAN' PERFORMANCE By TV WW

On this day in 1965, the Beatles traveled to CBS's New York studio to rehearse and tape a performance for the Season 18 premiere of CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show...

2020

Aug

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: STEVE MCQUEEN By David Bianculli

Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” focus is Steve McQueen, and a lot of the offerings today are flat-out McQueen classics. These include the car-chase magnificence of 1968’s Bullitt at 4:15 p.m. ET, the high-stakes intensity of 1965’s The Cincinnati Kid at 6:15 p.m. ET, the daring true-life war exploits of 1963’s The Great Escape at 10 p.m. ET, and the epic persistence of McQueen’s cage-resistant prisoner in 1973’s

2020

Aug

WILLY WONKA DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

This is a double feature allowing a direct comparison of two fine films based on Roald Dahl’s fabulous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory novel. First, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in which Gene Wilder interprets the candy-factory boss as a man with a quietly sadistic, very sarcastic, yet very funny emotional undercurrent. Then comes 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka as

2020

Aug

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s socially distanced edition of Real Time includes two former Democratic presidential aspirants who stood on the debate stage earlier this year with Kamala Harris, selected this week by Joe Biden to join him on the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket. And in addition to Pete Buttigieg (pictured, with Harris) and Andrew Yang, Maher also talks to Georgia Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

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