SEASON PREMIERE: This new season begins with a new show-runner, as creator Greg Garcia has moved on to The Millers. But series producer Mike Mariano is stepping up and carrying on, and the new season begins with back-to-back episodes – the first of which features guest star Jeffrey Tambor, appearing as the biological father of Virginia (Martha Plimpton).

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GREAT PERFORMANCES: "OKLAHOMA!" By David Bianculli

Ten years ago, Great Performances premiered this telecast of the stage revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, taped when the 1998 Royal National Theatre production was moving to London’s West End. It’s well worth repeating, and not only because the leading role of cowboy Curly is played by Hugh Jackman, in the role that made him a standout star. The director of this stage revival is Trevor Nunn, and the choreographer – reimagining the usually faithfully recreat

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Nov

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

After a strong run of A-list panels, it’s another night with a less than all-star cast – but on this show, celebrity doesn’t always equate with conversation, and sometimes the most interesting exchangs come from the least well-known contributors. So go for it, Mattie Duppler and Ezra Klein!

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AGAINST THE TIDE By David Bianculli

This new Showtime documentary looks at what it claims is one of the most significant college football game in the history of the sport: a game in which Alabama coach Bear Bryant, in hopes of ending segregation at his school program, invited the University of Southern California, with its strong complement of African-American players, to play a game in his home-field Southern stadium. The shame is that this was in 1970, shockingly recent in civil-rights terms. The glory is how the players and coa

2013

Nov

HAVEN By David Bianculli

The old It’s a Wonderful Life approach is taken in Haven this week, as Audrey experiences an alternate reality in which the town of Haven is not, and never has been, haunted by The Troubles. So what’s the trouble with that? Well, for one thing, almost no one remembers Audrey.

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Nov

VINCE GILLIGAN VISITS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOR 'BREAKING BAD' POST-MORTEM By Gabriela Tamariz

Our University of Florida grad-school journalist TVWW correspondent enjoys a campus visit from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, and watches as her professor and peers pepper him with post-finale questions...

2013

Nov

THE SIXTIES: THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK (1963) By David Bianculli

Next year, CNN will present a new 10-part documentary series called The Sixties, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (whose joint credits in this regard include the miniseries John Adams and The Pacific for HBO), and Mark Herzog. But as a sneak preview of sorts, CNN and The Sixties are previewing one entry in the series tonight, keyed to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Full disclosure: I’ve been interviewed on camera for one of the series’ subsequen

2013

Nov

THE RETURNED By David Bianculli

Part 3. Okay. Now this series really gets creepy. Camille (Yara Pilartz) decides to adopt a new persona – the old “visiting cousin” trick – in order to explain her prolonged appearance in town. It also gives her an excuse to hone in on her old, and now older, boyfriend, to see if she can rekindle his interest. For this genre, it’s a new twist, and a fascinating one.

2013

Nov

THE CRAZY ONES By David Bianculli

This sitcom, though the most popular new comedy of the fall season, has yet to find its sea legs – and that will remain true, at least until something in the program itself is as funny as the closing-credits outtakes. Perhaps tonight, the show will turn that corner: the guest star is Brad Garrett, and it certainly should help, allowing Robin Williams to play opposite someone of Garrett’s stature – comic and otherwise.

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