Country singer Glen Campbell died Tuesday, August 9 in Nashville, six years after his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis... Campbell performs here in 1968 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he became a popular regular and took over as a host of the brother's summer replacement series...

2017

Aug

MISANTHROPIC PAIR RETURNS FOR SEASON THREE OF 'DIFFICULT PEOPLE' By David Hinckley

Credit Julie Klausner with staying the course. And amazingly enough, it’s working. Klausner’s Difficult People launches its third season Tuesday [Aug. 8] on the streaming service Hulu...

2017

Aug

LIGHT MY FIRE By Eric Gould

In case you haven’t heard, Game of Thrones Princess Daenerys Targaryen had just about enough of the Lannister army last Sunday and unleashed one of her now full-grown dragons. Things quickly increased in temperature...

2017

Aug

CARPOOL KARAOKE: THE SERIES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: In my latest book, 2016’s The Platinum Age of Television, in the chapter charting the evolution of TV talk shows, I concluded by suggesting that the future of talk shows might be to re-fashion them in smaller, self-contained mini-programs, as by taking the “Carpool Karaoke” segments from James Cordon’s The Late Late Show, which have amassed hundreds of millions of views when isolated on YouTube, and building a show around them alone. That idea, apparently

2017

Aug

DIFFICULT PEOPLE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The intentionally abrasive duo of Julie and Billy, played with irreverent glee by Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner, returns for Season 3. Billy gets a job as a TV show’s warm-up act, a plot device last explored in HBO’s Crashing – and Julie attends a Passover Seder, an even more familiar premise for TV comedy. But on Difficult People, expect, in both cases, unprecedented levels of rudeness. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2017

Aug

MANHUNT: UNABOMBER By David Bianculli

Part 2. Last week’s opening installment of this scripted Discovery miniseries was so unexpectedly good, it caught many critics by surprise, delighting them in the process. I count myself among them, and urge you to catch up, dive in, and keep going. In this eight-part miniseries, Paul Bettany plays the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, and Sam Worthington is the FBI profiler James Fitzgerald, who pursued the Unabomber for years.

2017

Aug

THIS IS ELVIS By David Bianculli

The dramatic recreations in this 1981 biographical film, showing Elvis Presley as portrayed by actors at various ages, are negligible. But when This Is Elvis isn’t wasting time on ersatz Elvii at ages 10, 18, and 42, it’s showing very entertaining, and sometimes rare, performance and screen footage. Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show, sure, but also on Jimmy Dorsey’s Stage Show (pictured), and in his big-screen debut on Love Me Tender. When This Is Elvis shows the Elvis that is Elvi

2017

Aug

TCA: THE END OF ‘THE MIDDLE’ By Ed Bark

In a sea of disaffected TV teen daughters with 'tudes, The Middle’s Sue Heck is a fount of boundless optimism and pluck...

2017

Aug

PBS PREVIEWS: THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have completed their latest mega-documentary. This one, The Vietnam War, arrives on PBS next month: ten parts, eighteen hours, ten years in the making. Tonight, PBS provides a repeat look at an advance taste. And speaking of taste, look closely at the accompanying photo illustration, which is the central image chosen by Burns and Novick to embody, and promote, their documentary. Brilliant. Check local listings.

2017

Aug

CBSN: ON ASSIGNMENT By David Bianculli

In this second outing of this new summer series experiment from CBS News, Adriana Diaz provides a report on gun violence in Chicago. She spent a week there, mostly at street level, talking to members of gangs and crews there to understand the motivations for gun violence there, and the ways in which weapons enter the city and the underground marketplace.

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