William Masters (Michael Sheen) begins a new job, which should put an end to a chance of any relationship, at least professionally, with Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) – but it won’t.

2014

Jul

JAMES GARNER: 1928-2014 By David Bianculli

James Garner, whose death at age 86 was just announced… leaves behind two iconic TV series roles, a handful of exceptional telemovies, and one of the most impressive resumes in TV history…

2014

Jul

BARBARIANS AT THE GATE By David Bianculli

Partly in honor of the passing of James Garner, but also because this 1993 HBO movie fully deserves a Seal of Approval, here it is: a boldly conceptualized, brilliantly realized black comedy about a leveraged buyout corporate takeover of a major tobacco company...

2014

Jul

HOW I SHOT YOUR SITCOM: ONE CAMERA, OR MULTI? By Ed Bark

Single-cam vs. multi-cam... CBS won't have any single-cam comedies on its schedule in the coming season. NBC will be without any multi-cams this fall...

2014

Jul

BRITISH OPEN GOLFERS TAKE BEATLES POP QUIZ - AND FINISH BELOW PAR By David Bianculli

ESPN, as part of Friday's coverage of the British Open golf tournament, took advantage of the course location at Liverpool to ask competing golfers an instant Beatles quiz...

2014

Jul

BRITISH OPEN: A TEST OF GOLF SKILLS... AND A BEATLES POP QUIZ By Gerald Jordan

It’s half past The Open Championship and dramatic tales abound: Cinderfellas, Les Miserables, Aesop’s Fables and many others...

2014

Jul

HOOK By David Bianculli

On the heels of the deliriously wonderful news that NBC has hired Christopher Walken to play Captain Hook in its upcoming live telecast of the musical Peter Pan, this seems the right time to give another look to Steven Spielberg’s 1991 version of the classic children’s story. This version starred Robin Williams as a grown-up lawyer with a Peter Pan soul, so to speak, and featured Julia Roberts as a punk-haired Tinker Bell. But since, right now, it’s fair to think ahead to the N

2014

Jul

THE INTERNSHIP By David Bianculli

In this 2013 comedy co-written by Vince Vaughn, Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as hard-pressed salesmen who decide to chase a new dream, and a new career, by applying for the highly competitive internship track at Google. It’s like a companion piece to Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley, but featuring Rose Byrne as the female lead. Byrne is an interesting acting chameleon: She can be relentlessly dark, as in her starring role opposite Glenn Close in TV’s Damages, or confidently playful,

2014

Jul

BAD TEACHER By David Bianculli

Two new episodes of this series are shown tonight – and on summer Saturdays, that counts as at least an option. And in the first episode, in which Meredith (Ari Graynor) finds and claims money that was lost by Ginny (Kristin Davis) but earmarked as a school-trip fund, the guest star is Colin Hanks, fresh from Fargo.

2014

Jul

I WAS A JET SET STEWARDESS By David Bianculli

This new Smithsonian program documents the long-ago period when air travel was glamorous, from the spacious seats and elegantly served meals to the individual service and beautiful stewardesses. Some of today’s flight attendants, as they prefer to be called these days, are just as attractive and attentive – hey, I have a flight scheduled very soon, so why risk payback? – but the glitz, like the seat size, has shrunken notably since the early jetliner era recalled in this show.

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