The final movie in Billy Bob Thornton’s personal trilogy as TCM Guest Programmer arrives late, or early (depending upon your sleep habits), but is worth recording for more convenient viewing: It’s 1973’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, a Sam Peckinpah Western starring James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, and featuring Bob Dylan as both a supporting player (a mysterious character named Alias) and the composer of the film’s soundtrack (including the gorg

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THE CURRENT CASUALTIES OF THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION BEG FOR WORTHY NEW ENTRIES By David Hinckley

The Platinum Age of Television is as fragile as it is delectable. My latest personal reminder of this truth came while perusing the mortality list from the 2016-2017 TV season...

2017

Jun

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES By David Bianculli

The new Netflix miniseries Anne with an E, a fresh and very satisfying adaptation of the beloved Lucy Maud Montgomery book series begun with Anne of Green Gables, was compared by many reviewers, including myself, with the 1985 miniseries version that also was a wonderful adaptation. But here’s an even earlier basis for comparison: This is the 1934 movie version, starring Dawn Evelyn Paris as the young orphan who is sent, by mistake, to an elderly brother and sister who had requested the or

2017

Jun

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Most broadcast shows ended for the season along with the May sweeps – but in June, iZombie still has a few episodes to go, and is advancing its overall story line with tales of zombie armies, possible cures, and romantic entanglements and betrayals. Tonight, there’s another surprise: a character’s unexpected return. But really: with so many zombies around, how unexpected can a return be?

2017

Jun

WORLD OF DANCE By David Bianculli

Jennifer Lopez’s new dance series continues – and, on a Tuesday night, now that FX’s The Americans is over for the season, there’s very little time-slot competition. And when Lopez, as a judge, connects with some of her contestants, it really is nice to watch.

2017

Jun

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

One of Stephen Colbert’s scheduled guests tonight is Hasan Minhaj, with whom he has two very significant things in common. One is that both have cashed paychecks as correspondents for The Daily Show (Colbert for many years until taking his current gig, and Minhaj currently). The other is that both have hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Colbert in 2006, Minhaj (pictured) just a few months ago.

2017

Jun

‘THE HEART GUY’ DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE MUCH OF ONE, BUT THE SHOW DOES By David Hinckley

The Heart Guy, a new medical drama from Australia courtesy of Acorn TV, proves you can take the same premise for two shows and come out with almost diametrically opposed results...

2017

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THE HEART GUY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Well, it’s the premiere in the U.S., anyway. But in its native Australia, the series introduced here until the title The Heart Guy has been running under the name of Doctor Doctor. Either way, Rodger Corser stars as Hugh Knight, a competent young heart surgeon and inveterate party animal who’s forced to return to his sleepy small town of Whyhope. That basic plot makes this series, by any other name, a sort of cross between Northern Exposure (where a young New York do

2017

Jun

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This series, a prequel and intermediate variant to the familiar Batman story from DC Comics, has been all about reinvention and new identities, many of them dramatic. Characters, over time on this series, have morphed into the Riddler, come very close to familiar alter egos as Poison Ivy and Catwoman, taken on more of the attributes and attitudes of the Penguin, and even stepped closer to the dark vengefulness of Batman himself. Two weeks ago, Morena Baccarin’s Lee, who star

2017

Jun

2017 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

The Pittsburgh Penguins won the first two games. The Nashville Predators won Game 3. And now, we arrive at Game 4, which either will even the series at two games apiece, or give the scrappy Penguins an imposing 3-1 advantage.

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