SERIES PREMIERE: This new USA drama series is an English-language telenovela remake of Telemundo’s La Reina Del Sur, with Alice Braga playing a resourceful and resilient woman who has to stand and survive against a vengeful drug cartel. For a review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2016

Jun

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

This one should be a Must-See: For the first time I can remember, Graham has an all-female guest roster occupying his couch – and they’re all stars of the new Ghostbusters reboot.

2016

Jun

CBS OFFERS MORE CREEPY FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE MURDEROUS ‘AMERICAN GOTHIC’ By Ed Bark

Perhaps Leslie Moonves remembers this. Or possibly he’s chosen to forget...

2016

Jun

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS By David Bianculli

Raymond Massey is the star of this reverential biography of Abraham Lincoln in his formative years, but look who plays Mary Todd, his eventual wife and America’s eventual First Lady. She’s Ruth Gordon, co-star of the fabulous film Harold and Maude.

2016

Jun

GREENLEAF By David Bianculli

This miniseries is about the family drama behind an influential megachurch. Oprah Winfrey co-stars, but also is an executive producer, and the drama is presented on her OWN network. So she’s serving it up like an Oprah’s Book Club selection: fully endorsed.

2016

Jun

AMERICAN GOTHIC By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: And the unusual summer series keep coming from the broadcast networks. Tonight it’s American Gothic, a title last used for a marvelously dark CBS series starring Gary Cole as a cross between Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor and the Devil. This time, also for CBS, it’s a new story, a single-season mystery story. For full reviews, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.

2016

Jun

ANY GIVEN WEDNESDAY WITH BILL SIMMONS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new HBO sports talk series has gone out of its way to promote itself with opinionated, potentially controversial remarks by the show’s host. Now it comes to the hard part – the talk part. Opening guests: Charles Barkley, who’s no stranger at making controversial sports-relared remarks, and Bill Simmons’ fellow Bostonian Ben Affleck.

2016

Jun

CBS’ 'AMERICAN GOTHIC' ECHOES 'THE FAMILY' AND IS ‘BRAINDEAD' BIZARRE By David Hinckley

So this prominent, respectable New England family has to cover up inconvenient details of an awful crime, because someone’s running for high political office and those details could derail those aspirations...

2016

Jun

ANIMAL KINGDOM By David Bianculli

If you watched last week’s series premiere – and, more to the point, if you liked it, here’s episode two. Ellen Barkin stars.

2016

Jun

PERSON OF INTEREST By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: CBS certainly hasn’t supported this series with any commitment in its final season – but at least the network gave the producers enough warning so that they could write a proper ending to their series. And here it is: a war between surveillance machines, with our heroes taking one side, and hoping to elude and bring down the other.

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