DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2020
Jul
29
 
 
With a handful of episodes remaining in this final season, the team from S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to fight not only for survival, but against a rival team whose aim is to alter history by affecting the timeline. This battle takes place in the past – in lots of pasts, actually, as both teams jump through time as they try to counter one another – and tonight, after a sad sacrifice by one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. members, settles down in 1983. It’s a time that, among other things, requir
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
29
 
 
Almost everyone knows the feeling of a letdown after a big event ends. You've been focusing on it for so long that once it actually happens, there's an inevitable after-sense of "okay, what now?"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
29
 
 
The world may be in a slow-down, shutdown mode, but you can't prove it by PBS. The network – now in a three-day stretch of Zoom press conferences with the Television Critics Association (TCA) – somehow seems busier than ever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new British import is a really unlikely, yet really delightful, comedy series, about a former boy band star trying to mount a comeback. One reason it’s so unlikely is that its creator is O-T Fagbenie of The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian drama that isn’t exactly loaded with laughs. Another unlikely element is that Law & Order: SVU veteran Christopher Meloni, playing a music-industry mogul (pictured), is so hilariously slithery, he wou
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
NEWS SPECIAL: Good for ABC. 20/20 is presenting a special hour devoted to Regis Phibin – who, as host of the network’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, completely reversed ABC’s fortunes at the start of this decade. And long before that, he established himself, on his live talk shows, as one of the premiere natural broadcasters and casual conversationalists in TV history. Despite this special’s title, Regis had a resume, and a legacy, that stretched far
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
Carl Reiner received many tributes about his TV work when he died last month – but now comes TCM’s tribute, which focuses on Reiner’s movie career as a director. It starts at 8 p.m. ET with 1967’s Enter Laughing, whose stars include Elaine May, Jack Gilford, Don Rickles, Jose Ferrer, and Shelley Winters. Reiner directs, and wrote the original novel and collaborated on the screenplay. At 10 p.m. ET comes 1984’s All of Me, starring Steve Martin and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Actually, it’s only a premiere if you don’t subscribe to CBS All Access, which produced and streamed this series beginning in 2018. But as the old tongue-in-cheek slogan goes, “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you!” Tell Me a Story is a drama transposing, updating and braiding together several fairy tales into one ongoing narrative. Season 1, for example, which is repeated beginning tonight on the CW, takes on The Three Littl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
Michael Kirk, one of the best Frontline filmmakers, presents this very timely documentary about the spreading of conspiracy theories emanating from the current administration and its supporters and allies – a topic confirmed earlier this week by a retweet from President Trump himself. Check local listings. For full reviews, see Mike Hughes' Open Mic and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
Conspiracy theories have long been lurking out there, stirring our emotions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
 
 
Years before there was an Internet, radio understood the concept of click bait. You put someone on the air saying the most bizarre things anyone can imagine, and if he or she does it in a voice that's loud and engaging enough, it will entertain some of the audience...