As we time-travel through this latest season of Doctor Who, we’re also rapidly approaching the moment when Peter Capaldi will leave the title role, and turn it over to someone else. Meanwhile, tonight the Doctor and his companions go backward in time, to ancient Scotland – where they pursue the long-standing mystery of the vanished Ninth Roman Legion.

2017

Jun

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN REVISITED By David Bianculli

Of all of tonight’s TV events, this is the one I’m anticipating most eagerly. Last night, ABC presented a two-hour special on the Watergate scandal, and it was very clearly structured, and at times unexpectedly emotional. Tonight, MSNBC covers similar ground, but through a particularly fascinating prism: the movie made, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, who played Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men. “Arguably the

2017

Jun

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

This final season of Orphan Black already is shaking things up considerably, with the clones dividing, reuniting, and tentatively agreeing to new alliances. The emotional stakes are high – and they work because Tatiana Maslany, in every role she plays here, is believable, sympathetic (even Rachel), and identifiable.

2017

Jun

T.J. MILLER: METICULOUSLY RIDICULOUS By David Bianculli

One of the standout stars of HBO’s Silicon Valley gets what he’s more than earned from his dryly hilarious work there: His first solo HBO standup comedy special.

2017

Jun

THE LOST WEST EPISODE By Eric Gould

DC has just released the unaired episode of the NBC comedy Powerless, featuring the late Adam West as chairman of the Gotham City Wayne Industries... West spoofed his ‘60s Batman series sign-off’s with a tongue-in-cheek take to the audience, teasing them to tune in next week...

2017

Jun

‘THE CARMICHAEL SHOW’ GOES “VERY SPECIAL,” AND BRAVELY SO By Linda Donovan

Despite the platinum-plated offerings of Fargo, Better Call Saul, and so many others, for some of us, sitcoms are still a preferred form of television. Drama is good. Comedy is essential...

2017

Jun

CARDINAL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: In this new six-part weekly series based on the mystery novels of Giles Blunt, stars Billy Campbell (The Killing, Once and Again) as John Cardinal, a police detective working in the very cold northern landscape of Ontario’s Algonquin Bay. This Canadian series opens with a central mystery – a missing indigenous teen girl – but also spends time establishing Cardinal’s virtues, and vices. His personality is as chilly as the snowpack around him, and that envi

2017

Jun

THE RANCH By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 3 of The Ranch, Ashton Kutcher’s Netflix sitcom, premieres today. He stars as Colt, a former semi-pro football player who grudgingly agrees to run the family ranch. If you’ve never seen, or heard of, this particular Kutcher program, that’s sort of my point. Yet here it is.

2017

Jun

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: In England, this will be the last season for this beloved series as occupied by its familiar and charming hosts (except for Paul Hollywood, all the hosts are going elsewhere when British Baking Show shifts to a new British network). In the U.S., we still haven’t seen some of the earlier seasons, so we have more episodes with Mary Berry and company that will be unearthed and imported. But beginning tonight, this is the last lap for these deliciously passionate baking judges

2017

Jun

20/20: "TRUTH AND LIES: WATERGATE" By David Bianculli

Tonight and tomorrow, there are two major documentaries on Watergate – tomorrow’s MSNBC special on All the President’s Men, and tonight’s two-hour ABC special on the scandal, and the hearings, from Richard Nixon and his cronies in the Seventies. Why is this famous political crisis about bungled White House cover-ups and presidential abuse of power worth watching in 2017? And why, oh why, do I ask so many rhetorical questions?

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