It’s not even the halfway point of this 24 reboot, and we’ve just had one of its patented, by now predictable, “reveals”: namely, in this case, that one of the guys in charge of the “good guys” actually is working with the “bad guys.” Even with the 24-episode arc trimmed to a more manageable 12, 24: Live Another Day manages to hit many of the same tent-pole points.

2014

Jun

BRAZIL WITH MICHAEL PALIN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Former Monty Python member Michael Palin is a wonderful traveling TV host – I’ll never forget the time he sampled a delicacy called fried pupa, specifically the larval form of a beetle, and gleefully pronounced it “great grub.” Now he’s touring all of Brazil, in a new PBS travel show that premieres the same week that the 2014 World Cup wil be held there. Check local listings.

2014

Jun

REMEMBERING THE ARTIST ROBERT DE NIRO, SR. By David Bianculli

This new HBO documentary isn’t premiering on Father’s Day, but it may as well be. It has that kind of proud “son honoring his dad” feel – with the difference being that the son arguing for more recognition for his father has tons of attention himself. Robert De Niro examines both the art and the life of his dad, a painter, and says, in essence, “Attention must be paid.” Tonight, it is.

2014

Jun

LOUIE By David Bianculli

This defiantly, impressively distinct season of Louie continues in its own original fashion. In tonight’s show, one of the unexpected places Louie travels is to his own past – which, like Woody Allen in Annie Hall, has a young, wide-eyed boy acting out some of his painful childhood memories and confrontations.

2014

Jun

MURDER IN THE FIRST By David Bianculli

Kathleen Robertson and Taye Diggs star, Richard Schiff and Steven Weber offer support, and Tom Felton plays the Silicon Valley murder defendant in this new series from Steven Bochco, in the same vein as his earlier, one-case-per-season courtroom series, Murder One. For a full review, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes. And for an interview with Bochco, see Donna J. Plesh’s Talking Television.

2014

Jun

TNT'S 'MURDER IN THE FIRST' LETS BOCHCO BE BOCHCO By Ed Bark

TNT’s latest crime drama, Murder in the First, is straight-ahead Steven Bochco. Which begs the question: Does the now 70-year-old maestro behind Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue still have some pop? Well, yes, he does...

2014

Jun

NBA FINALS By David Bianculli

Game 2 of this year’s NBA Finals, between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs, will be played at the same stadium as Game 1, in San Antonio. That turned out to be a measurable factor in Game 1, as the total breakdown of the air conditioning system led to sweltering conditions in which the Heat, ironically, wilted the most. LeBron James left the game with intolerable cramps, and the Spurs won. The question tonight is, will the A.C. be fixed? And, if you’re the hosting team, why?

2014

Jun

THE 68TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS By David Bianculli

With Neil Patrick Harris starring on Broadway this season, Hugh Jackman is back as host of this year’s Tony Awards. Expect an entertaining program, with tastes of both Harris’ Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival and the revival of Alan Cumming in Cabaret. And expect, also, a Jackman shout-out to Harris, because Harris did the same to Jackman when Harris was host.

2014

Jun

COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: The universe ends tonight! The universe ends tonight! Well, this reboot of Cosmos does, anyway. And it’s worth saluting, not only as a singularly smart prime-time TV offering for Fox, but as part of a very unusual double-dip triumph by one of its executive producers, Seth MacFarlane, who also, right now, is both star and writer-director of the movie A Million Days to Die in the West. Neil DeGrasse Tyson hosts, taking us on a universal ride for one last lap.

2014

Jun

GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) and the Night’s Watch face the Wilding army in an episode called “The Watchers on the Wall.” Depending upon the scope of this battle, it could end up being the biggest cult Wall since Pink Floyd.

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