Encore has decided to bet big on TV’s biggest programming form, showcasing new and classic miniseries, beginning with the new The Crimson Petal and the White – a brilliant beginning...

2012

Sep

JOHN ADAMS By David Bianculli

Every once in a while, they still do make TV miniseries the way they used to, and here’s a grand recent example. Paul Giamatti stars in the title role, and nails it, in this 2008 HBO adaptation of David McCullough’s very human, very enlightening history of our first presidential campaigns...

2012

Sep

2012 U.S. OPEN TENNIS By David Bianculli

The swirling winds and gusting rains at Flushing Meadow have wreaked havoc with the final games in this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament. The women’s tournament final, which was supposed to be played last night, was postponed until today at 4:30 p.m. ET, when CBS will televise Serena Williams vs. Victoria Azarenka. As for the men’s final, which was scheduled to be played today? Forget it. Only one of the semifinal men’s games was completed yesterday, with Andy Murray de

2012

Sep

60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

The entire hour tonight is devoted to an interview with “Mark Owen,” the pseudonym used by the former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who was among those on the mission that found and killed Osama bin Laden. The contents, and parts of the author’s story — told in his new book, No Easy Day — are controversial, and in some respects disputed. Yet his account, which he tells while disguised by makeup and with his voice altered – is undeniably important. Sco

2012

Sep

BROADWAY OR BUST By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This three-part nonfiction series has PBS trying to catch the Glee wave, but doing it by filming an existing, high-profile competition. It’s a nationwide effort in which the 60 best performance-arts students from around the country are sent to New York to endure an intense boot camp and compete for roles in a one-shot, one-night, on-Broadway variety-show performance. If this kind of thing had existed when I was in high school, at least three of the 60 finalists would have

2012

Sep

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: “WALLANDER III” By David Bianculli

Kenneth Branagh returns in a third series of mysteries based on the moody Swedish detective. (Or is that redundant?) First up: An Event in Autumn.

2012

Sep

ROBOT CHICKEN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For the season opener, Seth Green and company got the green light (or the Green Lantern) from DC Comics to do a special episode based on the company’s iconic comic-book characters, in stop-action lunatic fun. Voices include Paul Reubens as the Riddler, Megan Fox as Lois Lane and Seth Green himself as Aquaman.

2012

Sep

1975: 'WELCOME BACK KOTTER' BEGINS ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1975, ABC introduced the situation comedy Welcome Back Kotter...

2012

Sep

'THE VOICE' & 'THE X FACTOR': READY TO GO FOR THE THROAT By Ed Bark

The X Factor and The Voice both return this week, with NBC scheduling a three-night Voice event that, on Wednesday, airs opposite X Factor's season premiere...

2012

Sep

MAYBE WE'RE NOT BETTER OFF, SAYS LARRY DAVID, BUT... By Eric Gould

As Larry David pointed out on Thursday's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, maybe we're not better off than we were four years ago, but hey, things are less bad than they could have been.

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