It makes sense that this really smart CNN documentary series would be perceptive enough to single out the year 1968 as one volatile and meaningful enough to warrant its own hour – titled, simply, 1968. And what relevance does that year hold today? Well, start with the Soviet incursion into Czechoslovakia, if you want modern parallels. And if you want pivotal historical events, start with the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the election of Richard Nixon,

2014

Jul

PROJECT RUNWAY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 13 for Project Runway, but it’s difficult to attach any superstitious meaning to the fact that Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, though moving from one network to another, are embarking on their 13th cycle together. After all, how many shows get to run that long?

2014

Jul

RECTIFY By David Bianculli

Daniel (Aden Young) continues his largely passive journey through the new, unexpected chapter in his life, not so much embracing freedom as wondering what to do with it. Tonight, a series of conversations and confrontations finally lead him in a direction – backwards, to consider the past.

2014

Jul

NY MED By David Bianculli

If you’ve been watching this uplifting nonfiction series this summer – and since it’s been winning its time slot since it premiered, many of you have – tonight’s installment is particularly dramatic, and involving. One of the many strong story lines that real life serves up in this documentary series tonight has to do with Debbie Yi, the doctor who has been showcased to great effect before. Tonight, she’s not only central to a case involving a patient –

2014

Jul

YOU'RE THE WORST By David Bianculli

Aya Cash’s Gretchen is a brave comedy character to inhabit with commitment – kind of like Dabney Coleman’s unapologetically acerbic TV host in Buffalo Bill so, so long ago. She does it beautifully, and somehow, remains beautiful as she does so – playing a magnetic personality that simultaneously repels and attracts. Her male counterpart in this new comedy, Chris Geere’s Jimmy, is outclassed and outshone – but it fits their unsteady, even unwanted onscreen rela

2014

Jul

'DOWNTON' AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS By Bill Brioux

BEVERLY HILLS, CA —Downton Abbey is PBS’s Super Bowl. The BBC import draws the highest ratings on the public broadcaster, and network officials once again gave it red carpet treatment at press tour...

2014

Jul

BULLITT By David Bianculli

This 1968 Steve McQueen movie, featuring one of the best car chases ever filmed, is one of four movies selected and presented tonight by guest programmer William Friedkin, who directed one of the other all-time speeding-car classics, The French Connection. Friedkin has great taste in movies, based on this quartet, all of which can and should be devoured and enjoyed. After Bullitt, TCM and Friedkin present 1948’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (10:15 p.m. ET), 1967’s Belle de Jour (

2014

Jul

EXTANT By David Bianculli

Episode three of this summer sci-fi series advances plot lines that should have percolated to the surface almost immediately: How does Molly’s husband react to news of her out-of-this-world pregnancy, and how do other parents at their boy’s school react to his status as a humanoid robot? Halle Berry stars.

2014

Jul

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This Lisa Kudrow nonfiction series, which first appeared as a TV series on NBC, now appears on TLC, with a mix of old and new episodes. Tonight’s new one, at 9 p.m. ET, features an exploration of the family tree of Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, and the steps that she’s retracing take her to a Missouri prison. The old episodes, bookending it on either side, feature another Sex and the City star, Sarah Jessica Parker at 8 ET, and her real-life husband, Mathew Br

2014

Jul

THE BRIDGE By David Bianculli

Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir star in a drama series that, once again this season, involves a high-profile, highly volatile case, with plenty of suspects and discoveries that are no less volatile.

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