SEASON FINALE: This new Kevin James CBS sitcom completes its first season with a two-part finale, concluding next week, that intentionally alludes to James’ most successful CBS sitcom series: The King of Queens, in which Leah Remini played his wife. In this Season 1 finale story, Remini returns as special guest star, playing a former fellow cop who once “played” Kevin’s wife during a undercover assignment. A current investigation requires the two to reprise their former u

2017

May

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Gotham has returned with a gloomy darkness indeed: Ed Nygma is now costumed in green and demanding to be called The Riddler. The still-future Penguin, in hiding and nursed from his near-fatal gunshot wound by the future Poison Ivy, is seen mostly in hallucinations as a figment of the Riddler’s imagination. And young Bruce Wayne’s doppleganger is moving in to take over his life – again – this time as a pawn put in play by the sinister Court of Owls. Owls, bats… the

2017

May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Last week, Chris Blue made it into the Top 11, barely, by the end of the competition and elimination process. This week, the singers must sing tonight, and survive elimination again tomorrow, if they’re to make it to this year’s Top 10.

2017

May

BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

It looks as though Jimmy will be going to court to try and preserve his right to be able to practice law – or, if not going to court, going back to brother Chuck to try to work out a deal. And either way, he has to call on Mike for help, while Mike, for his part, is getting deeper into the world of Gus Fring and the deadly Salamancas family.

2017

May

WARNING: THIS DRUG MAY KILL YOU By David Bianculli

This new HBO documentary probes the opioid epidemic, and how the widespread practice of prescribing opioids to hospital patients in pain can lead to an addiction to heroin. All I know from personal experience is, when I was hospitalized for a month last summer, the only thing that got me through that experience was an opioid – and that, though I was aggressive about weaning myself from pain medication as soon as possible, I truly understood drug addiction for the first time. When I needed

2017

May

MEET THE (FAKE) PRESS By Eric Gould

The White House press corps were the main story last Saturday night, with the WHCA annual dinner going on with the President not in attendance for the first time since the ‘80s. Full Frontal host Samantha Bee jumped in, hosting her own Not the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Allison Janney reprised her role as press secretary C.J. Cregg from The West Wing, but this time presiding over an obviously different group of alt-press reporters...

2017

Apr

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE BIGGEST STORY ON EARTH By David Bianculli

Alex Strachan, in his TV That Matters blog for TVWW, just wrote a great piece explaining why Showtime’s The Circus has become such indispensible, instructional weekly viewing. And in the last week of President Trump’s First 100 Days, a week that includes the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where the President himself was a defiant no-show, this week’s political recap on The Circus is an especially Must-See edition.

2017

Apr

AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: There are some wonderful, enticing talents involved with this new series, which is about ancient and modern gods doing battle in modern society for the souls and attentions and devotions of mankind. Chief among them is Neil Gaiman, who wrote the novel on which this new series is so faithfully based. Another is Bryan Fuller, a visually stylish TV producer whose resume includes both Hannibal and Pushing Daisies. And among the cast are two of my favorite TV actors, both playing god

2017

Apr

AMERICAN CRIME By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: That went quickly. But it’s already the end for Season 3 of American Crime, which has managed to present two solid seasons of separate stories, offering different roles to several members of the cast each season – and, this evening, concludes a third, featuring, among others, strong and solemn work by Felicity Huffman. For David Hinckley's take, see his blog, All Along the Watchtower.

2017

Apr

THE UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA WITH W. KAMAU BELL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last night, W. Kamau Bell was on CNN, not only commenting on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as it was barely underway, but also promoting the return of his weekly CNN comedy series, which returns tonight. Add it to your Sunday political wrap-ups, along with Showtime’s The Circus and, though it’s on hiatus this week, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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