This third season of An Idiot Abroad ended way too quickly, after only three episodes. Series creator Ricky Gervais apparently thought so, too, so serves up this after-the-fact special, cobbled together from outtakes and subsequent interviews. But whatever Gervais cobbles together, especially when it involves reluctant traveler Karl Pilkington (pictured), I’m happy to watch.

2013

Mar

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode features Kevin Hart as guest host, and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are musical guests. If you know all those names, this installment’s for you, especially.

2013

Mar

ABC'S RED WIDOW: MOB TIES SERVED WITH RUSSIAN DRESSING By Ed Bark

Fox set sail last fall with The Mob Doctor, which committed malpractice in the ratings. ABC's better rendered new Red Widow could just as easily be titled The Mob Mom...

2013

Mar

HISTORY CHANNEL FILLS SUNDAYS WITH VIKINGS AND THE BIBLE By Ed Bark

Still flush with the huge success of Hatfields & McCoys, History (Channel) doubles down Sunday night with a pair of scripted miniseries sharing violence and spirituality...

2013

Mar

MONSIEUR VERDOUX By David Bianculli

Charlie Chaplin became an international film superstar by keeping silent (the movies forced him to, at first), and by portraying a sweet soul constantly at odds with a cold, cruel world. But in the sound era, later in his career, Chaplin played a much more vocal and venomous type. As the title character in this dark comedy from 1947, he plays a man who woos and marries wealthy women, with the aim of doing away with them afterward. That aim rings true at first – but not always. Co-stars in

2013

Mar

THE BIG LEBOWSKI By David Bianculli

John Goodman didn’t win a Supporting Actor Oscar for his terrific work in Argo, but he was great there. He’s great here, too, in another supporting role that threatens to steal the film from even the other fine actors sharing the screen. (Come to think of it, Goodman just did the same thing in Flight, as well.) And in this 1998 movie, Goodman is sharing the screen with Jeff Bridges and Steve Buscemi, so calling Goodman a scene-stealer in Lebowski is a compliment of the highest order.

2013

Mar

THE AMERICANS MARATHON By David Bianculli

Episode five of The Americans, which just aired the other day on FX, vaulted this new series to a higher level, with a plot that plays off the real-life attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. The show has matured, and quickly, and FX clearly recognizes that fact. Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, the network is presenting a marathon of all five episodes to date – encouraging viewers to catch up, and jump aboard, in one Friday night mini-marathon. I encourage you to do the same thing. Ker

2013

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Bill Maher is going to take to the air just as we learn whether Congress and the White House managed to come to a last-minute compromise to avoid preordained budget cuts – or, once again, failed to cooperate and compromise, and thus failed to act. One of Maher’s guests tonight, fittingly, is someone who’s not afraid to flip-flop. He’s the hip-hop artist known as Snoop Lion – who, not too long ago, was the Artist Formerly Known as Snoop Dogg. I’m not Lion.

2013

Mar

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The final episode of this season has a plot which threatens to plunge the entire town into a blackout. So pay close attention – the problem, if you see one (or fail to), may not be with your set. And remember: the same was true of the finale of The Sopranos.

2013

Mar

DALE ROBERTSON AND HIS LONGHORN BUICK By Noel Holston

Dale Robertson, who joined those ghost riders in the sky this week at the age of 89, was the first celebrity I ever met. And though I went on to interview hundreds more as a media and entertainment writer, it’s still one of my favorite encounters...

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