Yesterday, when writing about opening night of this four-night National Geographic Channel look at the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, I used up my best geyser pun. (And my worst, because they’re the same thing.) I’d stretch for another Yellowstone-related pun related to tonight’s continuation, but I suspect some of you just couldn’t bear it…

2019

Jun

FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli

The U.S. women’s soccer team, having won all three of its games to dominate Group F in the group stage, doesn’t play again until Monday, when it faces Spain in its Round of 16 knockout stage opener. Meanwhile, this weekend has other teams playing in the same round. Germany defeated Nigeria yesterday 3-0, and Norway, after battling Australia to a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation play, won after a 4-1 margin of victory on penalty picks (pictured). And today, England faces Cameroon at 1

2019

Jun

LUTHER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode left Luther (Idris Elba), and especially the people Luther cared about, in a horribly precarious situation – with Benny, Mark and Alice held at gunpoint, threatened with imminent death, and with Luther too far away to do anything but beg by phone, pleading for their lives. What happened to close last week’s episode was shocking – and whatever follows tonight, in the opening minutes of this season finale, will propel whatever occurs in th

2019

Jun

THE GOOD FIGHT By David Bianculli

I loved The Good Wife, and I love this CBS All Access spinoff as well. But not on CBS, where all I see and hear when I tune in is what’s been edited from this CBS prime-time rebroadcast of the streaming TV drama, for either time constraints or broadcast TV censorial standards. My recommendation: If you didn’t, and don’t plan to, watch The Good Fight on CBS All Access, but are still interested in watching this excellent drama series from Robert and Michelle K

2019

Jun

CNN FILMS: APOLLO 11 By David Bianculli

There are going to be tons of TV specials as we land on the actual golden anniversary of the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. But tonight, CNN embarks a little early, getting a head start and presenting a new documentary with what it claims is “newly discovered cinematic footage.” I guess CNN could have called it “newly unearthed,” but that seems technically inaccurate. And “newly unmooned” – well, th

2019

Jun

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

Season 1 of Big Little Lies was all about discovering the secret – which, at the literal end of the miniseries, turned out to be who was killed, how the killing took place, and the identity of the killer. When David E. Kelley’s story adaptation proved so popular that it generated an order for a sequel, and the miniseries became a series, this new Season 2 has been all about those big little lies leaking out. And leaking, at first, from the mouths of babes. But now, the secr

2019

Jun

CITY ON A HILL By David Bianculli

Last week’s series premiere of City on a Hill spent most of its time showing how such disparate characters as a crooked white FBI agent in Boston and a newly arrived crusading African-American district attorney (played, respectively, by Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge), could team up to solve a politically volatile murder and robbery case. In tonight’s episode, the show, and the characters, get down to business. This opens up City on a Hill to other actors as well, in

2019

Jun

YELLOWSTONE LIVE By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Tonight through Wednesday, the National Geographic Channel once again is setting aside some time, and setting up some live cameras, to televise the rebirth of spring – okay, so it’s actually the first week of summer – as the natural elements and animals of Yellowstone National Park spring to life. Well, some spring. Others bloom or prowl. Still others erupt. And I know, especially when it comes to Old Faithful erupting, some of you geyser into that… For

2019

Jun

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I said this last week about Last Week Tonight, and it still applies: Neither John Oliver nor his show has let me down yet… which is a lot more than I can say about the current events he summarizes and satirizes.

2019

Jun

VISIT THE BEAUTY OF A NATIONAL PARK WITH 'YELLOWSTONE LIVE' By David Hinckley

National Geographic returns Sunday doing what National Geographic has always done better than almost anyone: capturing the breathtaking beauty of the natural world and the creatures who live in it...

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