Marin Ireland and Damon Gupton star as two people on opposite sides of a Death Row murder case – and tonight’s second episode, now airing in the show’s regular 10 p.m. ET slot, reveals their respective positions to be even more complicated and nuanced than before.

2014

Jul

THE WOODCHIPPER BECKONS By Ed Bark

Flush with 18 Emmy nominations for FX's Fargo, executive producer/head writer Noah Hawley half-jokingly fears the worst as he begins piecing together a followup that will be set 27 years earlier, tell an all-new story and be without any of the actors who made the first season so special..

2014

Jul

FACE OFF By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is one of those rare competition series – Project Runway is another – where, on good weeks, you can actually witness, and sometimes even be blown away, by the demonstration of talent on hand, creating amazing things under intensely difficult conditions. Every season, the makeup-and-prosthetics-loving contestants on Face Off have arrived with more impressive resumes and/or gifts, and it’s a one-stop-shopping TV destination for those interested in seeing ima

2014

Jul

BUFFALO BILL By David Bianculli

Joel McCrea has the title role in this 1944 movie, but the person to watch is Maureen O’Hara, who plays a woman Buffalo Bill Cody first rescues, then marries. Every Tuesday this month, it’s O’Hara’s night on TCM. Another reason to watch this particular movie biography: It spends time establishing not only Cody’s battles with Native Americans, but his respect for them.

2014

Jul

FRONTLINE: "POOR KIDS" By David Bianculli

Poor, little children, desperate for a better life than the one in which they find themselves. It's the hottest of topics right now at the U.S.-Mexico border – but it also affects kids deep within our country, native born or not, as this timely new Frontline establishes. Check local listings.

2014

Jul

TYRANT By David Bianculli

In tonight’s fictional story line, unrest in the city leads to demonstrations in the public square (pictured), and threats of revolution. In real life, this series found its shooting locations, in Tel Aviv, so volatile because of real-life political clashes and violence that producers have moved their cameras, crew and actors to Istanbul for the duration of the season.

2014

Jul

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL By David Bianculli

Real Sports is one of those nonfiction cable shows that delivers installment after installment, as reliably and entertainingly as any of its fictional scripted counterparts. Bryan Gumbel hosts – and tonight, one of the pieces he presents focuses on some eye-opening gimmicks the powers that be in the golf world are thinking about adopting to increase the sport’s popularity in this new century. One idea: foot golf, allowing soccer balls on the fairway and greens, opening up the valuabl

2014

Jul

QUOTES FROM THE TCA HOMESTRETCH By Ed Bark

As the latest Television Critics Association "press tour" heads for the homestretch, here's a broad sampling of answers in mass interview sessions generated by questions from TV Worth Watching...

2014

Jul

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE By David Bianculli

TCM shows five movies based on Agatha Christie stories tonight, including two films based on the same mystery. Beginning the evening at 8 ET is 1945’s And Then There Were None, in which 10 people are invited to an exclusive party at a remote mansion, only to be told that one of them is a murderer – as bodies begin dropping. Stars include Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Judith Anderson. This story was remade in 1966 as Ten Little Indians, which TCM televises at 1:30 a.m. ET., with

2014

Jul

THE NEWBURGH STING By David Bianculli

This new HBO documentary revisits the case of the four Newburgh, NY men who were convicted of terrorism – specifically, of plans to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military aircraft with missiles. The wrinkle here is, the four were just poor residents of a small town (none of them even owned a car), who were befriended by an FBI informant who promised them money and equipment if they would generate and carry out some terrorist schemes. Enforcement or entrapment? That’s th

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