As a business plan, kidnapping so rarely works out. But that doesn’t always deter the desperate, and desperate seems to describe Frank Mallon in Clean Break...

2016

May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Live Finale, Part 1. Tonight is the day, or night, of reckoning for the remaining four contestants: Laith Al-Saadi, Hannah Huston, Alisan Porter, and Adam Wakefield. Tonight they perform, but only one of them will emerge, eventually, as the season’s winner. My guess: It’ll be either Al-Saadi or Porter. They both have an abundance of talent, and Al-Saadi is an impressive musician as well but Porter has the more compelling backstory, which counts with viewers. Porter als

2016

May

THE PRICE IS RIGHT PRIMETIME SPECIAL: SURVIVOR By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: This summer will see a marked re-emergence of prime-time network game shows, and CBS is doing it with an aggressively cross-promotional approach. For example, The Price Is Right, hosted by daytime host Drew Carey, is presenting prime-time special editions featuring casts from CBS reality competition series. Tonight it’s Survivor, with that show’s host, Jeff Probst, along for the ride – and later on, it’s The Price of Right editions starring players from The Amazi

2016

May

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 2 finale for Gotham, and it finds a lot of the inmates who have been experimented on by Hugo Strange discovering a way to escape not only his clutches, but the facility where they’ve been imprisoned. And that includes the recently resurrected Fish Mooney, played by Jada Pinkett Smith.

2016

May

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Between the ABC and CW prime-time incarnations of this amiable improv comedy series, this marks the Season 12 return of Whose Line, in which host Aisha Tyler challenges her cast members – Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie and others, along with the week’s celebrity guest – to have fun with characters and situations she throws at them on the spot. There aren’t many “fun for the whole family” shows left on television, but Whose Line Is It

2016

May

AMC TRANSLATES GRAPHIC NOVEL 'PREACHER' INTO A SERIES By David Hinckley

Adapting Garth Ennis’s Preacher for television has some of the same degree of difficulty as wrestling with God, so it’s impressive that after the first few episodes, the adapter team is still standing...

2016

May

60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

Last week, 60 Minutes presented a tribute to long-time correspondent Morley Safer, which he was able to watch and enjoy: “It’s been a wonderful run,” he wrote afterward, in what would be his last missive on Twitter. Safer died Thursday at age 84, after presenting 919 stories on 60 Minutes since joining that show is 1970. Before that, his most famous story, his “Zippo report” from Vietnam in 1965, almost singlehandedly turned Vietnam into “the living-room war.&

2016

May

2016 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS By David Bianculli

If you’re interested: Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform tonight. So are the long-dormant The Go-Gos.

2016

May

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “The Door,” and includes, according to the on-air promo, a new character or two, as well as a new confrontation and a potential new alliance.

2016

May

PREACHER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is a warning, not a recommendation. I came to AMC’s latest comic-book adaptation with an open mind and eager expectations, and left it, after watching the premiere episode, with no desire whatsoever to see any subsequent episodes. Yes, it’s based on a cult comic with a loyal fan base, and those fans will get three extended action sequences in the pilot, which stars Dominic Cooper as the title character. But for the uninitiated, Preacher is so disjointed and diss

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