PILOT PREVIEW: Today’s the day Amazon unveils its newest batch of pilots, letting website visitors watch them, react to them and therefore have some sort of say, however marginal, in which shows are picked up for series. Here’s the best new drama of this 2015 crop, and a show well worth supporting. It’s from Frank Spotnitz, one of the veteran X-Files writer-producers, and is an excitingly intriguing adaptation of the novel by Philip K. Dick, whose other stories inspired, among

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SALEM ROGERS: MODEL OF THE YEAR 1998 By David Bianculli

Among the comedy pilots on view today from Amazon, in its first batch of proposed new series for 2015, the one most worthy of getting a series order is this one, which stars Leslie Bibb as a former supermodel emerging, with bad attitude and behaviors intact, after 15 years in rehab. Rachel Dratch plays her former assistant, and the two make an instantly hilarious female odd couple. To see the show, visit Amazon’s Pilot Season web page. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.

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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY By David Bianculli

The first movie made with this title was in 1903, from the Edison company, directed by Edwin S. Porter, with its famous final shot of a bad guy pointing his gun directly at the audience. (My Rowan University film students know it well – at least after taking my Introduction to Film course.) But this particular movie is a comedy thriller, made 75 years later, and written and directed by Michael Crichton, whose prolific and fertile imagination has given us Westworld, Jurassic Park, The Andro

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PARENTHOOD By David Bianculli

There are only three episodes left until the finale, so expect each of these final hours to be even more packed with sentiment, and surprises, than usual – and that’s really saying something. Tonight, in one of several subplots, Sarah (Lauren Graham) ponders how to react to the marriage proposal by Hank (Ray Romano).

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PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

Two more of the many characters populating Portlandia come to the fore tonight. This week, it’s Lance and Nina, whose relationship is disrupted by a visit from Lance’s mom and her new boyfriend.

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FOR AMAZON PRIME, PRIME TIME IS NOW By David Bianculli

PASADENA, CA – As traditional networks clamor for attention at the 2015 Winter Television Critics Association press tour, Amazon has stolen the spotlight with three attention-demanding, attending-deserving moves…

2015

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NEW FXX 'MAN SEEKING WOMAN' MAKES LOVE UNREAL By Eric Gould

Maybe call it a case of Walter Mitty gone hapless instead of heroic. Twenty-something Josh Greenberg, unlucky in love, finds his romantic troubles flying wildly off into the fantastical realm...

2015

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ROCK THIS BOAT: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK By David Bianculli

What used to be the TV Guide Network has been rebranded and redesigned, beginning today as Pop. Just as much pop culture coverage and focus, but fewer scrolled listings. For the record, one of the new original shows, premiering tonight, is Rock This Boat, a documentary series that goes along on fan cruises to document interactions between fans and stars. The first fan cruise is built around New Kids on the Block – and while that sounds entirely missable to me, I would sign up in a minute f

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MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

Tonight it’s personal: the new neighbors (played by Steve Zahn and Andrea Anders) have turned out not only to be less than ideal, but to be positively horrible. For the extended Dunphy family, this means war – and the battle begins tonight.

2015

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NOVA: "BIG BANG MACHINE" By David Bianculli

Welcome to the true Big Bang Theory. Tonight’s Nova takes a look at the scientific quest for something so elusive, it makes Bigfoot look like a camera-hungry Kardashian. It’s the Higgs Boson – and to recreate the energy field that theorists suspect emerged from the so-called Big Bang, scientists need a very, very big particle accelerator, a lot of patience, and a lot of luck. Here we go. Check local listings.

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