A couple of years ago, when it became clear the sheer volume of television programming had sped past any human capacity to watch it all, there was some rumbling about summer no longer giving us a breather...

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2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Okay, come on. Were you watching yesterday? Belgium knocking out Brazil 2-1, with some great goalkeeping and an astounding fast-break, pitch-long counterattack? France beating the imposing, usually dominant Uruguay 2-0? The 2018 World Cup has become such a wide-open, wild-west affair that anything can happen, and, in many ways, already has. The list of toppled giants and dispatched favorites, by now, is so long that of all the teams still standing, only two of them have won a single World Cup in

2018

Jul

WISEGUY MARATHON By David Bianculli

Good news and bad news, delivered at the same time. Today and tomorrow on Decades, the digital network offering vintage TV shows is rerunning the outstanding and influential 1987-90 CBS series Wiseguy, the undercover detective show that introduced half-season story arcs as an extended way to tell an ongoing narrative. It starred Ken Wahl as the undercover Organized Crime Bureau agent, and future Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks as his handler – but the real stars, and

2018

Jul

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE By David Bianculli

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan star in this continuation of the fanciful Jumanji franchise. They’re all playing against type, though, because that’s the way this particular role-playing game is played…

2018

Jul

THE NINETIES: "THE ONE ABOUT TV" By David Bianculli

I continue to point out this holiday weekend’s CNN rebroadcasts of the TV episodes of its ongoing decades documentary series, because a) they’re excellent, and b) I’m in them. Tomorrow, the new one, The 2000s, arrives – so consider tonight’s repeat of the two-hour TV episode of The Nineties an immediate prequel. Watch it with friends, because Friends is a big part of it. Hence the installment’s title: “The One about TV.” (Each Friends episode was c

2018

Jul

MARSHALL By David Bianculli

In 2018’s Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman starred in the title role. The year before, he starred in another title role – in this 2017 dramatized biography, Marshall, about Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who became the first African-American on the U.S. Supreme Court. Just in case the U.S. Supreme Court is of particular interest to you these days, make sure to catch this Showtime premiere of this well-made drama, whose somewhat improbable co-stars include Dan Stevens from Legion, Josh

2018

Jul

BILLMAHER: LIVE FROM OKLAHOMA By David Bianculli

After last week’s show, Bill Maher closed up shop on Real Time with Bill Maher for the summer – but he’s not quite through with HBO yet. Not before hosting one more live show, and this one is a solo comedy act, as the title says, Live from Oklahoma.

2018

Jul

ANNE WITH AN E By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The first season of Anne with an E, a new extended examination of the Anne of Green Gables series of novels, was a delight – in no small part because of the effervescent yet touching quality of its young leading lady, Amybeth McNulty. Amybeth is back for Season 2 – picking up exactly where last season left off.

2018

Jul

COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: A whole new batch of episodes are dropped today by Netflix – but rush right to the final one in this new series, because it’s a tiny little treasure. Host Jerry Seinfeld goes to Las Vegas and visits, drives around and eats breakfast with Jerry Lewis, in that other iconic comedian’s final screen appearance before he died. Lewis is frail, and less than verbose, but it’s sweet as well as somewhat funny to watch Seinfeld try, try and keep trying to pull stori

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