Sometime, during the filming of this 2000 movie remake of the miniseries Traffik, director Steven Soderbergh asked star Michael Douglas if he had ever thought of playing Liberace, and Douglas, who hadn’t, offered up an instant impression. Thirteen years later, the two collaborated on last weekend’s HBO biography of Liberace, Behind the Candelabra. So by getting stuck in Traffic tonight, you also can enjoy an earlier collaboration by these two maverick moviemakers.

2013

May

THE AMERICAN BAKING COMPETITION By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new CBS series, which takes 10 amateur chefs and has them compete each week in three contests to assess their abilities as amateur bakers, is based on a hot series from the U.K. – so don’t dismiss it out of hand. Cooking-show imports, either adapted or acquired wholesale, include one of my all-time faves, the original Japanese Iron Chef. And The American Baking Competition is hosted, in this incarnation, by Jeff Foxworthy, who’s proven himself quite

2013

May

JAILHOUSE ROCK By David Bianculli

This 1957 Elvis Presley movie includes the title production number, which stands alone as one of the best pre-MTV music “videos” ever made. Going to a party at the county jail…

2013

May

NOVA: "MANHUNT -- BOSTON BOMBERS" By David Bianculli

Nova has been doing more and more of these “instant specials,” keyed to recent news events, and it’s a very smart move. Finding ways to explore the science behind headlines is a way in to stories about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blackouts – and, in this case, federal investigations of recent crimes. The April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon is examined in tonight’s episode, showing in detail how investigators used some modern tools, and discarded others, to is

2013

May

MAD MEN: THE TWIN WITHIN By Eric Gould

Mad Men has always explored the lurking subconscious within, and the last couple of weeks have been a Freudian romp...

2013

May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

I watched chunks of last night’s Top 8 performance evening – but the overly produced staging of some of the numbers, a sort of X Factor overkill, turned me off, so I did the same to my TV set. Oh, well, at least I can catch up on what I missed by watching tonight’s overextended results show.

2013

May

CONSTITUTION USA WITH PETER SAGAL By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: In “Built to Last,” host Peter Sagal examines the longevity of the U.S. Constitution by exploring how difficult it is to amend it, and how resilient it is in the face of extreme challenges to it. For this final episode in his painlessly informative documentary series, Sagal visits both Iceland, where that country’s leaders recently used the U.S. Constitution as a model to rewrite their own, and the history of Watergate. Only one of those locations, though, can be

2013

May

TYLER PERRY’S THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: At 8 p.m. ET, Oprah Winfrey repeats her recent edition of Oprah’s Next Chapter, with guest Tyler Perry, in which she asks the prolific and popular film and TV hyphenate what he plans to do next. Then, an hour later, Winfrey presents what he plans to do next: produce his own new TV drama series, made for Winfrey’s OWN network. Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots is a new prime-time soap, and it’s the first scripted series made for and presented by OW

2013

May

BROOKLYN DA By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new six-part series takes the basic approach of ABC’s medical 24/7 documentary series and applies it to local politics. Politics, by definition, is much more controversial, so this series arrives on CBS already surrounded by a legal challenge brought by a rival candidate for the office of Brooklyn district attorney, who sought to block the telecast of this series. But the way things work, that should just add to the viewership, not subtract from it.

2013

May

BULLITT By David Bianculli

Steve McQueen stars in this 1968 detective movie set in San Francisco, where the hills are alive with the sound of screeching. Screeching tires, specifically, as McQueen takes the wheel for one of the most famous car chase sequences in the history of cinema. And sometimes, there’s no screeching at all, because all four tires of McQueen’s green Mustang are off the ground.

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