DAVID BIANCULLI

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2012
Oct
23
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, Jess (Zooey Deschanel) offers to help out a hungover Cece by stepping into Cece’s shoes and filling in on a modeling job at an auto show — except those shoes are sky-high stilettos, and the rest of the outfit isn’t much more comfortable or user-friendly.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
Mamie Gummer returns in episode two of this new CW series – the test for whether last week’s pleasant pilot was the start of something good, or a lucky fluke. Given how boring most of this year’s new series have been, I’m rooting for another solid outing.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
Simple question: How did climate change, in four short years, go from an almost universally accepted concept to one that’s newly argued about in this year’s political cycle? This new Frontline edition answers that simple question, and does so by following Deep Throat’s still-valuable advice: follow the money. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
This week’s new episode is called “Toad’s Wild Ride” – but this season, on this show, whose ride hasn’t been wild?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
On this day in 1939, NBC presented the first televised professional football game, a match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
Fox has an excuse for not joining the other major broadcast networks in televising the final presidential debate this year: It has another final contest to televise. Specifically, Game 7 of the National League Championship Series, which the San Francisco Giants forced by beating the St. Louis Cardinals last night and evening the series at 3-3.  Tonight, both teams will throw everything they have at one another to try to survive this final do-or-die game. Then, on Wednesday, the exhausted wi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
I know, it’s a week early – but as Halloween TV treats go, this 1978 John Carpenter movie is one of the true classics. Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence star – along with Carpenter’s point-of-view direction. And between scares, do the math: Next year, this influential horror film will be 35 years old.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Season 2 ends with the Alpha team attempting to take on what could be considered the Beta team: Stanton Parrish and his bad guys. But Stanton doesn’t have one of Alpha’s new secret weapons: Summer Glau as Skylar.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
Watch the sparks fly, romantically as well as comically, as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn square off in this 1942 screwball comedy about newsroom rivals – one a sportswriter, the other a columnist. Newspaper folks, a vanishing breed, love this movie, and we shouldn’t be alone.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
22
 
 
By most accounts, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the first presidential debate, and President Barack Obama won the second. So here comes the third and final one, which may well be a tiebreaker of sorts. The subject is foreign policy, and the moderator is Bob Schieffer – whom I interviewed in 2008, the last time he moderated a presidential debate. For more, see this vintage, but still appropriate, Bianculli’s Blog.