DAVID BIANCULLI

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2014
Apr
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SEASON PREMIERE: This wild, imaginative Syfy series is presenting its final handful of episodes beginning tonight, and starts off where it left off: Anthony Head, as Paracelsus, taking charge of the warehouse and using certain artifacts to travel through time and change history, especially his own. It’s a really sparkling opener, and makes room for several guest stars, including Lindsay Wagner and Rebecca Mader.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
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This documentary recounts one of Muhammad Ali’s greatest fights – one that took place outside of the boxing ring. At a time when relatively few Americans had any concept of Muslim beliefs, Ali already had confused or shocked many people by embracing Islam and changing his name from Cassius Clay. Now, as boxing heavyweight champion of the world, he refused military induction during the Vietnam War, insisting it was against his religious beliefs. The case went all the way to the Suprem
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
All day and night, TCM presents movies starring the late Mickey Rooney, to honor the passing of that Hollywood child star turned durable movie actor. Among the highest of highlights: 1938’s Boys Town at 8 p.m. ET, 1944’s National Velvet (pictured) at midnight ET, and, believe it or not, 1935’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 4:35 a.m. ET, in which he plays a particularly impish Puck.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
After three rounds, the two golfers sharing the lead at Augusta are Bubba Watson, who won in 2012 but saw his significant second-round lead vanish yesterday, and Jordan Spieth (pictured), a 20-year-old playing in his first Masters. Also playing in his first Masters: Jonas Blixt, who starts today’s final round one stroke behind the leaders. But he’s 29 – so if you’re rooting for the next generation of golfers, in this Tiger Woods-less Masters, keep your eye on Spieth.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
Whatever’s going to happen on The Good Wife tonight, I’ll be there, watching live – partly because the show has been so good this year, and partly because I’m afraid of sports overruns, this time CBS’s coverage of the Masters golf tournament, wreaking havoc with the start time for The Good Wife.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
Look, I don’t think I have to say anything about tonight’s episode, to get fans excited about tuning in, other than to say it features another royal wedding. And without revealing anything, let me just say that it gives Peter Dinklage, as Tyrion Lannister, some of his best scenes in the entire series to date.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This Edie Falco showcase begins Season 6 with the charcter, and the series, continuing to relapse: Falco’s Jackie is back on drugs, and, as before, is juggling her work, home and love lives as best she can, but always dropping a ball somewhere. This time it’s with her rebellious teen daughter (forgive the redundancy), but Falco, as always, gives the character such depth that even when Jackie seems to attain what she wants most – scoring in a dance-hall bathroom
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Jon Hamm’s Don Draper and company – most of them, anyway – are back for the start of Season 7, the final lap for this excellent AMC series. Series creator Matthew Weiner has asked us to withhold many, many details, but what facts and opinions I can reveal can be found in my review for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
13
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is a well-meaning documentary series about global warming, and how it affects everything, from deforestation in faraway lands to the closure of cattle farms right here at home. It’s a celebrity-driven vehicle in which celebrities use their star wattage to play investigative reporters, accompanied by camera crews to see conditions for themselves and conduct interviews. Harrison Ford, seeing the devastation of Indonesia’s supposedly protected national forests by i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
12
 
 
This weekend’s third round of the Masters is most noteworthy for who didn’t make the cut, or isn’t playing. For the first time in 20 years, it’s a Saturday Masters without either Tiger Woods (who bowed out in advance because of injury) or Phil Mickelson (who missed the cut yesterday). Bubba Watson, thanks to a back-nine five-birdie run, is atop the leader board on Day 3, hoping for a second green jacket after winning in 2012. And the most familiar names closest to him, as