Here’s an impressive guest star turn, arriving just before the end of the November ratings sweeps. Susan Sarandon guest stars, playing a cranky author who, somewhat improbably, warms up to Molly (Melissa McCarthy), just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

2013

Nov

TOXIC HOT SEAT By David Bianculli

This documentary imbues the term “couch potato” with a whole new meaning – and those potatoes, under the wrong circumstances, could end up being fried. For a full review, see David Sicilia’s TV Moneyland.

2013

Nov

THIS MEAN GIRL IS A GUY By Eric Gould

Ja'mie is the queen bee of her elite private girls school, full of ingratiating compliments for the headmaster and a ton of foul-mouthed insults for anyone crossing her... and "she's" a guy...

2013

Nov

THE 2013 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS By David Bianculli

This year’s live AMAs boasts, as usual, an eager lineup of top performers poised to grab the spotlight, especially to promote CD holiday sales. Justin Timberlake is here, and One Direction and plenty of others, but the primary scene-stealers are bound to be Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga. What can these two do, wear – or not wear – to have the Internet all abuzz tomorrow morning? I wouldn’t put it past Lady Gaga to wear a Miley Cyrus dress – not one loaned by her, but on

2013

Nov

CAROL BURNETT: THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE By David Bianculli

The star of The Carol Burnett Show, the beloved CBS variety series that ran for a dozen successful seasons back in the Sixties and Seventies, is honored as the recipient of this year’s Mark Twain Prize. She’s a very deserving recipient, and is toasted by an appropriate bevy of adoring celebrity peers and acolytes (Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler) – but when is this organization going to recognize, and give the Mark Twain Prize, to another CBS variety act that

2013

Nov

DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTORS REVISITED: “THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR” By David Bianculli

Yesterday, the 50th-anniversary episode of Doctor Who, simulcast around the globe. Today, the premiere of The Eleventh Doctor, the latest in the series of documentary salutes to the various incarnations of this long-running British institution. Doctor No. 11 is played by Matt Smith – and since the Doctor is supposed to have a total of only 12 incarnations, this documentary series, like the series itself, should come to an end very soon. But it won’t. Expect a loophole of cosmic

2013

Nov

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

This series continues to amaze, and to find renewed energy by pitting former law-firm allies against one another, in court and out. What a way to revitalize an already excellent TV franchise in its fifth season: As on occasional seasons of Survivor, suddenly shuffle the team members. Former friends, and even lovers, are now on the opposite sides of the table. Sometimes even literally.

2013

Nov

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode was a highly dramatic entry from left field. It was a flashback episode devoted solely to a currently dormant recurring character, David Morrissey’s The Governor, showing what happened to him after the destruction of his seemingly idyllic city (which was anything but). Basically, it was a stand-alone futuristic episode of The Fugitive, with the Governor as a worn-out Richard Kimble, wandering around eluding zombies instead of a persistent Lieutenant Gerard.

2013

Nov

JFK FUNERAL, NOVEMBER 25, 1963 By Eric Gould

The body of slain President John F. Kennedy was carried by a horse-drawn caisson to the U.S. Capitol on November 24 to lie in state... the funeral took place the next day with representatives of over 90 countries attending. Here are clips from those two days – all in color footage not usually associated with the events of the day...

2013

Nov

MEDICAL COMEDY 'GETTING ON' HAS JUST THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION By Ed Bark

Getting On is amusing, caring, and very deftly adapted for HBO -- and what’s more, you’ll see three revelatory performances from actresses best known for entirely different TV personas...

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