So far in this final season, Patty (Glenn Close) has made all the right moves, and Ellen (Rose Byrne) has played right into her hands – getting a judge dismissed that actually would have hurt Patty’s case, and being fed misinformation from someone Patty knew better than to trust. But as things get closer to an actual court date, expect Ellen to get her licks in – and to make things tough for Patty, at least for a while.

2012

Jul

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS 20TH ANNIVERSARY OLYMPICS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

This is the third and final Ab Fab special presented to honor the show’s 20th anniversary, with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley still misbehaving as Edina and Patsy. This last special of the bunch finds them realizing, at the very last minute, that the 2012 Summer Olympics are in their midst, and setting out to join in the revelry. Even when the comedy flags a little, there’s something very funny about these two characters and their clueless excesses. Also shown simultaneously on

2012

Jul

HIT & MISS By David Bianculli

Episode 2 of this limited series was another impressively tender and involving one, and Chloe Sevigny has made this role her own – no mean feat, since she’s playing a transgender assassin (by which, to be clear, I do not mean someone who murders transgenders). And this week, we see her having more difficulty than usual doing her “day job,” and finding herself hunted as well as hunter.

2012

Jul

BEFORE BREAKING BAD, THERE WAS THE PRICE IS RIGHT By Eric Gould

If we ever wondered if Aaron Paul's amped-up antics as Walter White' assistant Jesse Pinkman were carefully cultivated in rehearsal or sprang more out of intuitive improv, we need look no further than his long-ago appearance on The Price Is Right...

2012

Jul

MARIA BELLO TO JOIN KIEFER SUTHERLAND ON 'TOUCH' By Bill Brioux

Kiefer Sutherland was happy to talk up Touch, which returns October 26 on Fox. The big news? Maria Bello of the late Prime Suspect is joining the cast...

2012

Jul

REMEMBERING SHERMAN HEMSLEY By Ed Bark

Sherman Hemsley, the broadly comic actor whose inimitable rants made The Jeffersons one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid '70s to mid '80s, died Tuesday at age 74...

2012

Jul

HISTORY DETECTIVES By David Bianculli

Last week, this series stirred up controversy by presenting a segment about a guitar that may or may not have been owned by Bob Dylan, and played the night he “went electric.” This week, the show investigates another controversial find – but this time the controversy is over history, not provenance. It’s a 78 r.p.m. record (kids, ask your grandparents to explain both “78 r.p.m.” and “record”) from the KKK label – and yes, that label stands fo

2012

Jul

PYGMALION By David Bianculli

What would My Fair Lady be like without music? Well, that’s the way it started – with George Bernard Shaw’s comic play, which was adapted into a film in this 1938 version. Leslie Howard stars, with Wendy Hiller as his cockney pupil.

2012

Jul

THE GODFATHER LEGACY By David Bianculli

Here’s a two-hour special devoted to the impact of the Godfather films on popular culture – a great idea for a TV special. But one of our TVWW writers, Noel Holston, has an even better idea, for a book: one that examines all the movies, TV shows, songs, poems, artwork and other things inspired by and alluding to The Wizard of Oz. Interested book editors, please contact us, and we’ll get the word to him. It’s an offer you can’t refuse … which takes us full cir

2012

Jul

NY MED By David Bianculli

Terence Wrong’s latest medical documentary series spends part of tonight’s show focusing on a familiar TV face: Dr. Oz., who already appeared in this series’ initial episode. But in this light, in his regular medical habitat, he comes off like a doctor, not a TV guy – though, when he leads the camera into the staff lounge to check out what they’re eating, it’s an ambush segment worthy of Mike Wallace – if Wallace wore scrubs.

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