Single-cam vs. multi-cam... CBS won't have any single-cam comedies on its schedule in the coming season. NBC will be without any multi-cams this fall...

2014

Jul

BRITISH OPEN GOLFERS TAKE BEATLES POP QUIZ - AND FINISH BELOW PAR By David Bianculli

ESPN, as part of Friday's coverage of the British Open golf tournament, took advantage of the course location at Liverpool to ask competing golfers an instant Beatles quiz...

2014

Jul

BRITISH OPEN: A TEST OF GOLF SKILLS... AND A BEATLES POP QUIZ By Gerald Jordan

It’s half past The Open Championship and dramatic tales abound: Cinderfellas, Les Miserables, Aesop’s Fables and many others...

2014

Jul

HOOK By David Bianculli

On the heels of the deliriously wonderful news that NBC has hired Christopher Walken to play Captain Hook in its upcoming live telecast of the musical Peter Pan, this seems the right time to give another look to Steven Spielberg’s 1991 version of the classic children’s story. This version starred Robin Williams as a grown-up lawyer with a Peter Pan soul, so to speak, and featured Julia Roberts as a punk-haired Tinker Bell. But since, right now, it’s fair to think ahead to the N

2014

Jul

THE INTERNSHIP By David Bianculli

In this 2013 comedy co-written by Vince Vaughn, Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as hard-pressed salesmen who decide to chase a new dream, and a new career, by applying for the highly competitive internship track at Google. It’s like a companion piece to Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley, but featuring Rose Byrne as the female lead. Byrne is an interesting acting chameleon: She can be relentlessly dark, as in her starring role opposite Glenn Close in TV’s Damages, or confidently playful,

2014

Jul

BAD TEACHER By David Bianculli

Two new episodes of this series are shown tonight – and on summer Saturdays, that counts as at least an option. And in the first episode, in which Meredith (Ari Graynor) finds and claims money that was lost by Ginny (Kristin Davis) but earmarked as a school-trip fund, the guest star is Colin Hanks, fresh from Fargo.

2014

Jul

I WAS A JET SET STEWARDESS By David Bianculli

This new Smithsonian program documents the long-ago period when air travel was glamorous, from the spacious seats and elegantly served meals to the individual service and beautiful stewardesses. Some of today’s flight attendants, as they prefer to be called these days, are just as attractive and attentive – hey, I have a flight scheduled very soon, so why risk payback? – but the glitz, like the seat size, has shrunken notably since the early jetliner era recalled in this show.

2014

Jul

ALMOST ROYAL By David Bianculli

This installment is the most ripe for cross-cultural sarcasm, because fake royals Georgie (Ed Gamble) and Poppy (Amy Hoggart) descend upon Washington, D.C. They’re confused, initially, in their sightseeing quest for the White House, because a lot of the houses look white. And when these faux royals begin chatting up and querying some actual Washington politicians – well, it’s like The Daily Show with a British accent. Which, I guess, makes it exactly like The Daily Show last su

2014

Jul

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA By David Bianculli

Every time TCM shows Lawrence of Arabia, I put it in Best Bets – and why not? David Lean’s 1962 masterpiece is indeed an epic, in every sense of the word. And only TCM, usually, shows this lengthy movie the way it should be shown, uninterrupted and with the proper screen ratio. Peter O’Toole is every bit as charismatic, contrary and cool as the real T.E. Lawrence was reported to be – and there’s a certain symmetry that actor Omar Sharif gets to play a character name

2014

Jul

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER By David Bianculli

Any movie that casts both Oprah Winfrey and Mariah Carey is scoring in the red on the Diva Meter – but the central focus of this 2013 drama, based on fact (sometimes very loosely based), is Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, who as a White House butler served eight different Presidents. (Winfrey plays his wife.) And though they’re minor roles, the Presidents who are portrayed by actors rather then represented in news footage are played by such familiar faces as Robin Williams (portrayi

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