MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new series, imported and streamed beginning today on Acorn TV, features Martin Clunes, the British star of the long-time Doc Martin series, who embarks on a three-part documentary series, exploring some of the islands surrounding Australia. He visits 16 of them over this three-part series, having close encounters with such exotic animals as a devil on Tasmania’s Maria Island, a penguin on Phillip Island, lots of joeys (baby kangaroos, pictured) everywhere, and eve

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

I’m really enjoying this season of the voice – and last week, when judge Alicia Keys sang to a female contestant, Lilli Passero, serenading her in hopes of persuading Lilli to join her team, The Voice presented its latest emotional surprise and high point. The ploy worked, by the way. And in tonight’s episode, Blake Shelton, the judge with the most successful record on The Voice, is supposed to pull out all the stops in a win-that-contestant trick of his own.

2017

Mar

24: LEGACY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s hour of 24: Legacy brings back, for the first time in this series, a very familiar face from the glory days of the original 24 series: Tony Almeida, played by Carlos Bernard. He’s called in, from what has become a very solitary existence, to assist in a particularly sensitive and tricky interrogation – one of Tony’s many established specialties.

2017

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

This show is getting so good as it heads towards its finale, with each week’s show delivered a long-simmering new twist. Tonight, the long-repressed Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) gets more intimate with an unhappily married young blonde named Madeleine (played by Isabelle McNally, pictured), who, last week, confessed her attraction to Norman. Madeleine dresses and looks a lot like Norman’s mother Norma (Vera Farmiga), who, though dead, is still very much a presence in the Bates hou

2017

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HUMANS By David Bianculli

Tonight, HUMANS presents a double-header, as the conflicts between humans and synths become more agitated – and, even when argued in seemingly civilized settings, have very dangerous implications and repercussions, for all of mankind. And, at the same time, all of synthkind.

2017

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CRIES FROM SYRIA By David Bianculli

Documentary filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky already has trained his attention, and his cameras, on one third-rail global hot spot, with his Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. Now he focuses on another such spot, where civil uprisings and brutal regimes clash in a battle for, or against, basic freedoms. Afineevsky takes care to offer a wide perspective, explaining the origins and tensions of the conflicts he covers – but then zooms in tightly to make you learn, and care, one per

2017

Mar

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

The divide-and-conquer narrative structure of this season’s The Walking Dead continues to pay dividends. Two weeks ago, it was an episode devoted to Eugene. Last week, it was a road trip with Rick and Michonne. And tonight, we spend a lot of time with Carol – different characters, different agendas, very different settings within this show’s post-apocalyptic nightmare world. Tonight’s episode may sport some grave secrets – and based on an image from the network prom

2017

Mar

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

This is episode 4, and it’s the episode in which both the therapy sessions and the interactions between the ladies – and men – of this very intense little neighborhood get very intense. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman star.

2017

Mar

AMERICAN CRIME By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: American Crime is one of those two, two, two-shows-in-one TV hybrids. It’s a miniseries, in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and end – this season, its third, in eight weekly installments. But it’s also an anthology series, with each season examining a different crime story at length – and, with American Crime, having many core players returning in new roles. One of them is Regina King, who’s already won Supporting Actress Emmys in thi

2017

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FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN By David Bianculli

Episode 2 of this new Feud anthology miniseries from Ryan Murphy – like American Crime, a hybrid anthology series and miniseries – really gets into the dynamics of the battle between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, as they begin filming the 1960s horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? This is the episode in which Crawford bares both her insecurities and her fangs – and in which Davis (played by Susan Sarandon), in a brilliant move to upstage her screen co-star, emerges fro

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