This 2016 documentary relies on vintage interview clips with Frank Zappa to tell the story of the man and his music – going so far back, with the musician who burst into counter-culture prominence as the leader of the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s, that among the earliest interviews is a TV visit with Steve Allen. Zappa is eminently quoteworthy, as when he once said, “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can&

2017

Jan

REPENT, KNAVE! ’SHERLOCK’ CO-CREATOR MARK GATISS CONFRONTS CRITIC IN RHYMING VERSE, FORSOOTH AND FORTHWITH By Alex Strachan

'Tis nobler by half to withhold errant judgment o'er the arts
For this Sherlock doggerel is enough to try men's hearts...

2017

Jan

BIANCULLI 'PLATINUM AGE' BOOKSTORE APPEARANCE By David Bianculli

I know, this isn’t on TV – but it’s about TV, and when I appear tonight to talk about and sign copies of my new book The Platinum Age of Television, I’m planning to show some TV. Besides, Larry Edmunds Bookshop is a Hollywood bookstore – not only the first of its kind in Hollywood, as an independent store specializing in books about TV, the cinema, photography, theater and the media, but the last surviving one as well. I’ve been buying books from this shop sin

2017

Jan

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAREWELL ADDRESS By David Bianculli

Live from Chicago, where his quest for the presidency began, retiring two-term U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a farewell address tonight. It’s expected to be covered by all the major news networks, and even some of the minor ones.

2017

Jan

GOOD BEHAVIOR By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The first season of this unusual character study, starring Michelle Dockery as a kleptomaniac con woman with plenty of issues, concludes tonight, with Dockery’s Letty on the run, and seemingly painted into a dark, inescapable corner. But this is when con men, and con women, generally get the most inventive… Time to put on another wig and vamp, one way or another.

2017

Jan

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

This series returns for the new year, focusing on a new danger in the midst of the always beleaguered agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Last fall, in a disappointingly flat story arc, it was the Ghost Rider. Starting tonight, the focus is on Aida, a Life Model Decoy built to look and act human, but with an agenda all its own. Or her own, if we’re being both mechanically and politically correct. Mallory Janson, who co-starred on ABC’s musical comedy Galavant as Queen Madalena, plays Aida –

2017

Jan

TABOO By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Tom Hardy stars in this first new FX series of 2017, and it’s a daringly different type of role, series, and setting. Most of the action takes place in London, but it’s the London of 1814, when England is still reeling from the revolt of the American colonies. Hardy plays James Delaney, an adventurer with a strong claim on a key piece of land wedged between territories, and claimed by both British and U.S. interests. Flashbacks take Hardy, and the viewer, back to Afr

2017

Jan

FX'S ‘TABOO’ DOES A VERY SLOW BOIL By Ed Bark

Tom Hardy conveys menace with the ease of Jimmy Fallon conveying love to any and all of his late night guests. So that’s certainly not the problem with FX’s explicitly profane Taboo...

2017

Jan

FX 'TABOO' IS A GRIM AND GRIMY PLUNGE INTO OLD LONDON By David Hinckley

This London period-drama is grimy and brutish, seemingly with little decency either on the streets or in its well-appointed boardrooms...

2017

Jan

THE NEW CELEBRITY APPRENTICE By David Bianculli

This is a warning, not a recommendation. The first installment in this show’s new iteration, which features former California governor and Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger as the new host, and retains former host Donald Trump in the credits as an executive producer, was televised last week. There were two big battles in last week’s bloated season premiere, and the men’s team, including Jon Lovitz and Boy George, won both of them. Now, with 11 days to go until Trump is inau

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