TBS and TNT are simulcasting tonight’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one of the honorees, for her lifetime body of work, is Carol Burnett. The SAG Awards honor both film and TV work, and in the leading actor and actress categories for both television and film, only Viola Davis of How to Get Away with Murder keeps the SAG slate from being as all-white as this year’s Oscar list. I’m just saying…

2016

Jan

DOCTOR WHO: "DOCTOR'S NOTES" By David Bianculli

To keep Doctor Who fans occupied between seasons, BBC America is replaying, over the next stretch of Saturday nights, the entirety of Season 9, with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman as the Doctor and his traveling companion Clara. What makes these more than mere repeats is the addition of what BBC America is calling “Doctor’s Notes” superimposed on the episodes, pointing out various details and “in jokes” you might have missed the first time around. Like in tonight&r

2016

Jan

STEVEN AVERY: INNOCENT OR GUILTY? By David Bianculli

It’s a big night for convicted or accused murderers in prime time – especially ones whose cold cases have been exhumed and examined in high-profile documentaries. Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix’s Making a Murderer, was the subject of a Dateline NBC report just last night, and tonight Investigation Discovery gets into the game, following up with both new and vintage interviews with attorneys, witnesses, and other involved parties.

2016

Jan

48 HOURS: "MURDER 90210" By David Bianculli

In this 48 Hours installment, Robert Durst, the subject of HBO’s Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, is revisited. That’s because one of his cases may be revisited, if he accepts a plea deal on a gun charge next week, which would pave the way for a possible murder trial in California, regarding the death of his friend Susan Berman. Erin Moriarty is the correspondent.

2016

Jan

THE DONALD DEBATES MR. TRUMP By Jim Davis

In politics, a man who changes political positions to match the prevailing mood is labeled a flip-flopper...

2016

Jan

AMERICAN MASTERS: "MIKE NICHOLS" By David Bianculli

This one-hour homage to the late, truly great Mike Nichols is different from most American Masters installments in that the story of its subject is told primarily by the subject. Nichols is interviewed about his life and career, at great length, by an off-camera Julian Schlossberg, who produced not only this American Masters outing, but a previous one on Nichols and his former comedy partner, Elaine May. And Elaine May is the director of tonight’s installment, which explains, and justifies

2016

Jan

DATELINE NBC By David Bianculli

Tonight’s Dateline NBC is devoted to the murder case reexamined in Netflix’s already controversial and attention-getting Making a Murderer documentary series. In other words, it’s a re-reexamination. But when a case, even a cold case, generates this many headlines, you can bet there will be other documentaries and newsmagazines eager to sniff the same trail, in hopes of riding the same wave.

2016

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

The biggest name on tonight’s show is director Adam McKay – but don’t let that dissuade you from tuning in. Quite often on this series, the most entertaining conversations come about when the guests are on more of an equal footing.

2016

Jan

THE GREEN BERETS By David Bianculli

TCM devotes its schedule tonight to movies about, and set in, Vietnam, and the evening ends with two films that represent the opposite ends of the political spectrum during those divisive years. First, from 1968, is The Green Berets, co-directed by and starring John Wayne, who plays a colonel leading his Green Berets on a pair of high-risk missions. Listen for the title song, sung by Barry Sadler, which personifies the jingoistic, America-first tone of this movie. Jim Hutton, David Janssen co-st

2016

Jan

THE DEER HUNTER By David Bianculli

At 2:45 a.m. ET, to cap its night of Vietnam films, TCM presents Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter – one of the most powerful anti-war war movies ever made. The stars of this 1978 epic are Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep – and each and every one of them is amazing in their credibility and intensity. From the early scenes stateside to the brutal ones in Vietnam, there’s nothing quite like The Deer Hunter.

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