This series is building, surely but a bit too slowly, to the Season 2 finale, in which Bombshell is among the musicals competing for this year’s Tony Awards. Meanwhile, they writers are finding drama where they may – including a benefit concert in which Ivy (Megan Hilty), is asked to perform a number that’s intentionally, and provocatively, risqué.

2013

May

DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is a very special episode, both behind and in front of the camera. Behind the scenes, it’s written by noted genre author Neil Gaiman, who already has contributed one impressive episode of Doctor Who. And in front of the camera, it makes room for the return of one of the most familiar and tenured foes in the Doctor’s universe: the Cybermen.

2013

May

VIVA LAS VEGAS By David Bianculli

Consider this 1964 musical a sex-symbol summit of the highest proportions. On one side, Elvis Presley, pairing on screen, for the first time, with a singing sensation as full of gyrations and sexual energy as himself. On the other side, Ann-Margret, about whom you could say, “Ditto.” Do the sparks fly? In the musical numbers, most definitely. The rest of the time? You decide.

2013

May

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

It’s a lot of fun to watch this series deepen its plot, and extend its cast of characters and its focus, each week. Tatiana Maslani is not only playing multiple parts on this show, but they’re constantly interacting, and even impersonating one another. In tonight’s episode, one of her clones announces to another that she’s been ordered to kill her – but the various incarnations are beginning to work together, not against one another. Send in the clones! No, wait &nd

2013

May

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guest host is a former regular, and perennial bright spot: Kristen Wiig, making a return appearance as headliner, and bringing several of her favorite old characters with her. You go, girls.

2013

May

PLANT YOURSELF IN FRONT OF HBO’S 'FAMILY TREE' By David Bianculli

Christopher Guest’s new comedy series for HBO, Family Tree, is a clever show with a secret weapon — a hand puppet. Hey, hey, it’s the monkey…

2013

May

LAME DUCK LENO KEEPS WINNING, NBC BOASTS By Ed Bark

Could there be a second pullback from a premature evacuation of Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show? Just wondering, in light of NBC's latest press release...

2013

May

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

This weekend’s new show is called How People Power Generates Change, and features Bill Moyers interviewing such guests as lifelong activist Marshall Ganz, whose legacy of change from the grassroots level traces back to the 1960s. Moyers & Company is shown by public TV stations locally from Friday through Sunday. To find when it’s televised in your TV market, see the Moyers & Company website. Check local listings.

2013

May

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR By David Bianculli

Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel is showing this 1975 political thriller that’s a precursor of every Bourne-again drama about secret agents gone rogue, or smelling conspiracies. This one is a great little movie, directed by Sydney Pollack and co-starring Cliff Robertson and Faye Dunaway. Redford plays a CIA researcher who suddenly is on the run, chased by his own agency – and though younger viewers may be thrown by the pivotal fact that this whole drama takes place in an era b

2013

May

JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS By David Bianculli

You may have to take this one on faith, because it sounds dubious – but I recommend it highly. Director and editor Tadashi Nakamura has compiled a film about 36-year-old Jake Shimabukuro that is part biography, part concert touring film, and part Pied Piper reincarnated. Except that this particular enchanting musician doesn’t play a wind instrument, but a ukulele – yet unlike any ukulele player you’ve ever heard, or seen. He won me over years ago, when he first posted a Y

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