Tonight’s all-new episode has the scientists tackling a new challenge: going through the university process of applying for tenure. I usually fund it easy to laugh at this series – but trust me, there’s nothing funny about the tenure process. Nothing. Arrgh.

2013

Apr

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Yesterday’s performance theme was “Rock Songs (No Ballads),” though one contestant tonight will be singing a sad song – unless the judges exercise their “save” option. Meanwhile, don’t worry about Candice Glover, again.

2013

Apr

NEW GIRL By David Bianculli

Jess and Nick decide to go out on an actual, official date. They’re determined to enjoy it – but their roommates are just as determined to sabotage it.

2013

Apr

HANNIBAL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: There was a Hannibal movie made in 2001, which starred Anthony Hopkins in a cinematic sequel to Silence of the Lambs – but this is a TV show, not a movie, and a prequel, not a sequel. And despite the involvement of series creator Bryan Fuller, who generated the delightful Pushing Daisies and the winsome Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, this new series is much darker than those shows – and much less satisfying. After The Following and Cult and Dexter, and the current Bat

2013

Apr

SPRINGTIME FOR LENO: NEXT YEAR'S WILL BE HIS LAST By Ed Bark

Jay Leno officially and unwillingly walked the plank Wednesday, ceding The Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon on a yet to be announced date in spring 2014...

2013

Apr

DIRECTV'S FIRST ORIGINAL SCRIPTED SERIES LANDS WITH A THUD By Ed Bark

Dreary in tone and storyline — and mostly dimly lit as well — Rogue is a decidedly uninviting vehicle for DirecTV’s first original scripted series...

2013

Apr

NATURE: "WHAT PLANTS TALK ABOUT" By David Bianculli

This installment, an unofficial sequel to David Attenborough’s The Private Life of Plants, uses time-lapse photography and other high-tech tricks to let us see plants in a new way: as beings with preferences, motivations, even emotions. According to this, some plants emit a chemical smell – part warning to neighboring plants, part cry of anguish – when they’re hurt. So that smell of freshly mown grass? It’s the olfactory equivalent of a silent scream of pain. It&rsq

2013

Apr

HENRY V By David Bianculli

TCM has a prime-time lineup tonight that invites you to belly up to the Bard. Two Shakespeare movies starring Laurence Olivier are televised tonight, beginning with this 1944 screen version of one of the Bard’s most famous historical plays. Then, at 10:30 p.m. ET, comes 1948’s Hamlet, co-starring Jean Simmons as Ophelia. If you like Shakespeare, Ophelia should be watching this double bill.

2013

Apr

MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

In this new episode, Claire’s stay in the hospital brings her and Phil face to face with their future equivalents: older versions of themselves, and their grown kids, as they visit dad in the next hospital bed. Phil (Ty Burrell) is thrilled by the seeming resemblance to their own lives and relationships; Claire (Julie Bowen), not so much.

2013

Apr

SPIES OF WARSAW By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Former Doctor Who star David Tennant has the leading role in this spy series set in the years before WWII. Based on the novels by Alan Furst, Spies presents Tennant as a French secret agent who is certain Hitler plans to incite and lead a war, and aims to prove it and try to stop it. His costar, and romantic leading lady, is Janet Montgomery, used to much better effect here than when she starred, with a very different accent, on the CBS series Made in Jersey.

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