As a six-week prelude to the new season of Doctor Who, BBC America is presenting a retrospective of the eight most popular episodes in the modern Doctor Who canon (since the very impressive modern reboot). Tonight’s kickoff celebration is a double feature, and one of them is among my favorite Doctor Who episodes of all: the one introducing the scary stone angels. How can something that can’t move be scary? Watch closely. Because if you don’t, they’ll move…

2015

Aug

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING By David Bianculli

Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in this 2014 film biography of the pioneering physicist. Felicity Jones co-stars.

2015

Aug

HANNIBAL By David Bianculli

There are only three episodes left in this series – the final three courses. Which means dessert is not that far away…and tonight, neither is another killer, the elusive yet familiar Red Dragon.

2015

Aug

NEW ADAPTATION CRIES 'U.N.C.L.E.' AGAIN By Bill Brioux

TVWW asked me to do something I don’t usually do as a TV critic—review a movie, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., so this request kinda makes sense. No. 1, it’s based on an old spy series from the ‘60s, and No. 2, I’m old enough to (barely) remember it...

2015

Aug

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli

You aren’t going to find better deals than this newly repackaged release of Garry Shandling’s hilarious, impressively influential HBO comedy show. All 89 episodes, spread over nine discs, on sale -- you get the lead troika of Shandling as neurotic TV talk host Larry Sanders, Rip Torn as his always-simmering producer, and Jeffrey Tambor as Larry’s neurotic TV sidekick...

2015

Aug

GROUCHO MARX SALUTE By David Bianculli

Lots of laughs, all day and all night: Today on TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars,” it’s a salute to the great Groucho Marx. It includes some solo projects, which are televised very early and very late in this 24-hour salute, but the tastiest meat in this meal comes when Groucho is teamed with the rest of his irrepressible siblings, The Marx Brothers. For them, the action begins at 9:30 a.m. ET with 1938’s fast-paced Room Service, which also stars Lucille Ball (seen her

2015

Aug

PGA GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

Under changing and increasingly challenging playing conditions, Dustin Johnson (pictured) took the first-day lead at the PGA Golf Championship yesterday – a feat he also achieved this year at the U.S. Open and British Open, becoming the first golfer in history to take the opening lead in three consecutive majors. But though he finished yesterday with a 6-under-par 66, Johnson still has his work cut out for him, because he didn’t end up winning either of those other 2015 majors. Other

2015

Aug

THE DICK CAVETT SHOW By David Bianculli

Knowing this is a rare telecast of an even rarer TV conversation only makes it sweeter: Here’s a nice bonus, as part of today’s TCM salute to Groucho Marx. Presented, in its entirety, is Groucho Marx’s appearance, as the only guest, on the Aug. 13, 1969 edition of The Dick Cavett Show.

2015

Aug

DIVERGENT By David Bianculli

Evils of standardized testing are dramatized in this hit sci-fi film from last year. Shailene Woodley, who was praised as a gifted young actress by The Descendants co-star George Clooney, carries a major genre film as a young woman who rebels against the status quo of this film’s imagined future society. It’s a world in which people are divided into caste-like factions based on their tested and identified emotions and virtues. Put me down as one of the Aloofs.

2015

Aug

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Between the new protests and violence at Ferguson, and the ongoing circus atmosphere of the current race among possible presidential contenders, there's a lot to discusss tonight. Among tonight’s scheduled guests are a few people who probably have something to say, as well as the inclination to say it: civil rights activist Talib Kweli, and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (pictured).

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