The Muppets are going gangbusters in this year’s Muppets Most Wanted, smartly led by Tina Fey in the starring non-Muppet role. It’s Charlie Brown’s turn in 2015 with the upcoming CGI animated big-screen Peanuts feature...

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2014 NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Tonight’s first game: Cal Poly Mustangs vs. Texas Southern Tigers. The Mustangs may be this year’s least likely NCAA participants, having ended the season with a record of 13-19. (The Tigers, by contrast, though also competing in a please-let-us-in “First Four” game, have a winning record of 19-14.) But one of the thrills of watching March Madness is to witness the feisty spirit of little teams with nothing to lose who manage to peak at just the right time. At

2014

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SAVE MY BAKERY By David Bianculli

Kerry Vincent, from Last Cake Standing and The Food Network Challenge, steps up in this new series to pull a Gordon Ramsay for bakeries in trouble, and descend with advice, observations and other kinds of floury help. Consider it slow-rising payback of sorts: Given all that the Food Network has given her over the years, it’s the yeast she can do.

2014

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THE 100 By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new CW premiere is another in the network’s series of sci-fi fantasies populated by impossibly beautiful and handsome young adults. You may consider this one worth sampling, at least once, though, for two reasons. One is the far-fetched premise, which has a space-station colony that has orbited a nuclear-war-ravaged Earth for almost a century, and is sending down youthful prisoners – led by Eliza Taylor as Abby – as test subjects to see if the planet is re

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THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

Margo Martindale returns, in this new episode, in her recurring role as Claudia – and this time, the mission she has for Elizabeth and Philip (Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys) isn’t one they’re eager to hear, much less undertake.

2014

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DOLL & EM By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells star in this new HBO comedy, an import in which Mortimer, the co-star of HBO’s own Newsroom, plays an exaggerated version of herself. Her close friend Dolly Wells plays a exaggerated version of herself, too, and this six-part comedy, which features Mortimer and Wells as co-writers, has Emily the actress cheering up her childhood friend Dolly by hiring her as an on-set personal assistant. For a full review, see Bianculli's Blog. .

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HBO PRESENTS LATEST HOLLYWOOD SITCOM WITH 'DOLL & EM' By David Bianculli

HBO’s newest comedy series, Doll & Em, revisits one of TV’s favorite sitcom sub-genres: show business. But this time, the show’s creators, and its stars, are women. The same women…

2014

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NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

March Madness begins today, with the first two of four last-second qualifying games prior to the beginning of Thursday’s bracketed tournament of 64 college teams – teams with very long odds and, traditionally, very strange team names. In the first game, the Albany Great Danes play the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers for the right to make one of the last bracket spots. In the second game, which begins at 9:10 p.m. ET, it’s North Carolina State Wolfpack vs. the Xavier Muskete

2014

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GLEE By David Bianculli

This is the 100th episode of this show, which the producers are using an excuse to bring back some favorite former regulars and guests from previous shows. Among the regulars, that includes Heather Morris as Brittany, one of the sweetest characters on the show. Among the guests, that means appearances by two blondes who had great fun in their respective roles: Kristin Chenoweth and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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CARSON ON TCM By David Bianculli

Five more vintage interview segments from Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show are presented tonight on TCM, introduced by former Tonight host Conan O’Brien. Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, and running about 15 minutes each, this new batch of old clips features Lucille Ball from 1977, Red Skelton from 1983, Don Adams from 1980, Candice Bergen from 1984, and Carol Burnett from 1979.

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