SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. The winner of this year’s contest is announced tomorrow, so today is the final push by this cycle’s 10 finalists, covering everyone from a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist to a 13-year-old ballad singer. Okay, so there’s more range than that, and much more drama, since many of the finalists have backstories ranging from endearing to tragic. Including the 13-year-old singer, Evie Clair (pictured), who dedicated each song to her sick father, until and

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Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

Part 3. Tonight’s episode is titled “The River Styx,” and covers January 1964 to December 1965 – the time when President Lyndon Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, even though, as private recordings from the period reveal, he was against it from the start. For a full review of this episode, see Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. Check local listings.

2017

Sep

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT By David Bianculli

This is the third episode of this newest iteration of American Horror Story, and the killer clowns continue to arrive and attack. It’s in the zeitgeist, apparently, because Stephen King’s It is back with murderous clowns, too. To quote Stephen Sondheim: “Send in the clowns? Don’t bother… they’re here.”

2017

Sep

CONAN WITHOUT BORDERS: ISRAEL By David Bianculli

Conan O’Brien is at his best when he’s playing an away game, visiting other countries and reveling in their and his differences. Tonight he goes to Israel, where he visits Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other sites – the latest in his comedy passport series, which in the past has taken him on very amusing voyages to Cuba, South Korea, Mexico and, lest we forget, Finland.

2017

Sep

THE PALEY CENTER SALUTES THE BEST OF 'WILL & GRACE' By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: TV history meets TV promotion – but in this case, it’s a comfortable fit. The Paley Center for Media looks back on this 1998-2006 NBC sitcom, which NBC is reviving Sept. 28, by presenting some of its most memorable and amusing moments. For Will & Grace, that’s a lot of moments. And since the folks at the Paley Center both know and respect their TV history, it’s likely to include a clip from the Will & Grace finale – a finale (pictured) that the new

2017

Sep

‘THE VIETNAM WAR,’ “EPISODE 3 - THE RIVER STYX (JANUARY 1964-DECEMBER 1965)” By Alex Strachan

There are 16,000 American advisors in Vietnam when The Vietnam War returns tonight with Episode Three...Those advisors’ fate — and the fate of the embattled country of Vietnam — will rest with a new U.S. president...

2017

Sep

‘THE STATE’ ON NAT GEO IS DISTRESSING AND DISTURBING By David Hinckley

National Geographic’s two-night miniseries on four British Muslims who join ISIS raises more questions than it answers about what we Westerners pretty much all wonder, which is, “Why would anyone do that?”...

2017

Sep

DANCING WITH THE STARS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This is cycle number 25 for this competition reality show – and really, weren’t two dozen iterations enough? (Especially since the producers of this show keep snubbing Dick Smothers, who’s taken dancing lessons and, for years, has wanted to appear.) But look at the list of this year’s “stars” on Stars, starting with Nick and Vanessa Lachey, and Drew Scott of Property Brothers, and tell me how far ABC is stretching

2017

Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

Episode 2. Tonight’s installment of this outstanding new series from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is called “Riding the Tiger,” and focuses on Vietnam during the JFK years, when it was downplayed as a military action of sorts. Last night’s opening installment set the stage for the dangerous quicksand trap that was Vietnam – no bottom, few ways out – and tonight, we see President John F. Kennedy allow his military advisers and others to drag him right into it. Thi

2017

Sep

THE KING OF KINGS By David Bianculli

Director Cecil B. DeMille had staged one massive biblical epic in 1923, with The Ten Commandments. But after a few years, that was old news, or at least Old Testament. In 1927, DeMille returned with The King of Kings, a silent-movie retelling of the New Testament story of the last days of Jesus Christ. H.B. Warner portrays Christ, and DeMille outdoes himself by going for visual scale and spectacle. In other words, don't expect this particular biblical silent movie to be a run-of-DeMille kind of

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