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2013

Jun

FRANKLIN & BASH By David Bianculli

Why watch Franklin & Bash? Excellent question, usually – but tonight, I have an answer. If you’re big on female TV icons, tonight’s episode presents two from decades ago: Heather Locklear, now a series regular as the boys’ new boss, and Jane Seymour, returning in a recurring role as Peter’s mother. Oh, and Seymour’s character needs legal representation from her son and his partner, because she’s been accused of prostitution. Oh, and double oh: In one

2013

Jun

FUTURAMA By David Bianculli

If the contents of tonight’s episode are as funny as its episode title, we’re in for another very entertaining episode. It’s called “T.: The Terrestrial.” Think about it.

2013

Jun

HOT IN CLEVELAND By David Bianculli

Last week, Hot in Cleveland grabbed a lot of well-deserved attention by broadcasting live. This week, it earns more attention with its guest casting. Carol Burnett guest stars, playing the housebound, hoarding mother of Wendie Malick’s Victoria. Tim Conway also guest stars – making this a mini-reunion, along with series star Betty White, of three of the wonderful players from the recurring, riotously raw "The Family" sketches on The Carol Burnett Show. And in what other comedy compan

2013

Jun

THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART By David Bianculli

Here’s a test of the interviewing abilities of Stewart’s summer substitute host, John Oliver. Tonight his guest is Josh Fox, the filmmaker whose documentary, Gasland Part II, provides for a lot of opportunities to make serious as well as comic points. And Fox is just off an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, where he held his own, and more, against an angry assault from one of the show’s conservative guests.

2013

Jun

THE COLBERT REPORT By David Bianculli

Tonight’s show is scheduled to combine, on the same program, two of television’s all-time best political commentators: the usually playful Stephen Colbert and his guest, the usually serious Bill Moyers.

2013

Jun

IMAGINE THERE'S NO LENNON By David Bianculli

Imagine John Lennon performing for this season’s judges on NBC’s The Voice...

2013

Jun

THE SHINING By David Bianculli

The latest Stephen King screen adaptation, Under the Dome, just launched on CBS last night. Here’s a chance to see a much earlier adaptation, from, unbelievably, 33 years ago. Yes, it’s been a third of a century since Stanley Kubrick directed his stunningly visual 1980 version of The Shining – and here it is again, featuring stunning performances from Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as a married couple experiencing some isolation, both together and alone. Redrum!

2013

Jun

THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER By David Bianculli

TCM’s theme tonight is “Schoolgirl crushes,” and it begins with this 1947 comedy, featuring a schoolgirl who was even more famous as a preschool girl. Cary Grant stars as a playboy whose style is cramped when a “bobby-soxer” (think of the sweet young things who swooned in the front rows and Frank Sinatra concerts) develops a crush on him. And the bobby-soxer in question is played by Shirley Temple, who was one of cinema’s biggest stars when she was little more

2013

Jun

TO ROME WITH LOVE By David Bianculli

Woody Allen delivered his best movie in decades, and his most popular movie ever, with Midnight in Paris. This 2012 film was his follow-up effort, set in a different international city but showcasing the scenery, and the actors, to equal effect. Stars this time include Judy Davis, Alec Baldwin, Alison Pill (the HBO Newsroom star who played Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris) – and Italian star Roberto Benigni, who won an Oscar for his international hit Love is Beautiful.

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