For those with access to Showtime 2, I just wanted to point out this prime-time opportunity to catch this instant repeat of last weekend’s new documentary profile of Richard Pryor. It’s loaded with valuable interviews, from Robin Williams to Mel Brooks, and includes a piece of footage that’s new to me, and fascinating: unused footage of Pryor’s post-flameout comeback concert movie, taken during the first night, when things didn’t go well.

2013

Jun

NBA PLAYOFFS: MIAMI HEAT VS. INDIANA PACERS By David Bianculli

This series has been so even that no team, regardless of home-court advantage, has won two consecutive games. The Indiana Pacers even things up in Saturday’s Game 6, forcing tonight’s must-win Game 7, with the Miami Heat playing before its home crowd. But will Miami’s LeBron James be playing alone, or will the rest of his teammates finally rise to the occasion and find a way to get around Indiana’s stifling defense? Either way, this ought to be one extremely intense game

2013

Jun

WAREHOUSE 13 By David Bianculli

One surprise served up long ago by this series was the appearance of a time-traveling H.G. Wells into the continuing story line. Another, even more imaginative surprise was the revelation – fictitious, but fascinating – that Wells actually was a female writer hiding behind her initials, and that the “H” stood for Helena. With Wells played by Jaime Murray, who bedeviled Dexter Morgan as the deadly and unpredictable Lila on Dexter, every appearance by Wells is worth watchin

2013

Jun

'MISTRESSES' COMPLETE ABC'S "MAN CANDY MONDAY" By Ed Bark

The imminent arrival of ABC’s heavily teased “Man Candy Monday” dangles hopes for eventual Sonofabitch Sundays or Wanton Women Wednesdays...

2013

Jun

JEAN STAPLETON: 1923-2013 By David Bianculli

Jean Stapleton, who played the better half to TV’s most significant icon as Edith Bunker on CBS’s All in the Family, has died at age 90, her family has confirmed…

2013

Jun

STATUE OF LIBERTY By David Bianculli

This 1985 one-hour documentary was the third Ken Burns program shown on PBS, after 1981’s Brooklyn Bridge and a modest but informative 1984 study called The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God. Statue of Liberty hits on many of the themes, and all of the production methods, that would come to be known as Burns hallmarks. Why repeat the program now? Because the New York landmark has been closed since Hurricane Sandy hit the area last October, and repairs are scheduled to be completed

2013

Jun

THE KILLING By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After watching the two hours that make up tonight’s Season 3 premiere, I’m still not sure how enthusiastically to recommend it. I continue to love, and respond to, the abrasive but oddly endearing characters of Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and Linden (Mireille Enos) – but they’re on different paths for most of these first two hours. And the central guest star, Peter Sarsgaard as Death Row prisoner Ray Seward, barely has time to interact with either of them yet.

2013

Jun

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

Question: Is it just me, or are the women on Game of Thrones doing all the interesting things this season, wielding all of the power, and demonstrating most of the ruthlessness? (Answer: It’s not me. Or I.) Exhibit A: Lena Headey as Cersie Lannister.

2013

Jun

MAD MEN By David Bianculli

Question: Is it just me, or is Mad Men turning into a period fable about disconnected doppelgangers, with Jon Hamm’s Don Draper at one end of a dark mirror, his new agency partner at the other end, and Elisabeth Moss’s Peggy caught in the middle? (Answer: It’s not me. Or I. Especially since tonight's episode is titled "A Tale of Two Cities." For corroboration and elucidation, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader.)

2013

Jun

FAMILY TREE By David Bianculli

Because of last week’s pre-emption, this is only Episode 3 of this new Christopher Guest series, so its hero (played so amiably by Chris O’Dowd) is still investigating his family tree in the United Kingdom. Last episode, in search of information about his family roots, he made a horse’s ass of himself (literally, as part of a two-man costumed athletic competition). Tonight, sister Bea (Nina Conti, who’s great) takes her talking monkey puppet and accepts a job as a wedding

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