It seems like just the other day that this paleoanthropological discovery made headlines: a formerly unknown cache of early hominid bones, discovered deep in a cave near Johannesburg and rewriting history about our human ancestors. In fact, it was just the other day – but here’s a ripped-from-those-headlines PBS Nova special, which takes us on the trip, with the excavating team, as it encounters and recovers this very significant find. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones… Chec

2015

Sep

SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 19 of South Park begins with the school introducing a new principal – but with the show’s principle of finding humor almost anywhere daringly intact. Tonight, the boys of South Park are forced to confront their prejudices – which leads to an embracing of the “Stunning and Brave” (this opener’s episode title) example of Caitlyn Jenner.

2015

Sep

MOONBEAM CITY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Comedy Central describes this new animated series as “an absurdist, retro-futuristic ’80s cop extravaganza” – whatever that means. What it means, sort of, is Miami Vice by way of A Clockwork Orange and vintage album cover art. The stars lending their vocal gifts here are Elizabeth Banks as Pizzaz Miller, Rob Lowe as Dazzle Novak, Will Forte as Rad Cunningham, and Kate Mara as Chrysalis Tate. The names of the characters should indicate, all by themselves,

2015

Sep

LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

Tonight’s show has a guest roster that could be spread out to fill an entire week: Kevin Spacey (seen here on The Colbert Report, when he ran off with the host’s Emmy statuette), Carol Burnett, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Comedy Central’s Broad City, and Willie Nelson. Sounds like the best TV green room of the year since – well, since Jon Stewart’s farewell show.

2015

Sep

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH GOOD TV? CAN THERE EVER BE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? By Alex Strachan

FX Networks CEO John Landgraf told members of the Television Critics Association last month that there is simply too much good television on the air right now...

2015

Sep

SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS: FX'S 'THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER' By Ed Bark

Violence. Depravity. Turf wars. Casting his wife, Katey Sagal, in the midst of it all. Creator/producer Kurt Sutter is a big fan, as he showed time and again during seven seasons of Son of Anarchy. His FX follow-up is The Bastard Executioner, a bloody, mystical but not magical saga...

2015

Sep

THE MINDY PROJECT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Cancelled by Fox, Mindy Kaling’s sitcom gets a new home, and a new lease on life, by beginning a fourth season on Hulu. The season opener is available to stream today, and subsequent episodes will roll out weekly, just as they would on a broadcast network.

2015

Sep

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: JIM HENSON By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The season ender to this nonfiction biography series is devoted to Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets – and it’s perfect timing, because a new ABC series, The Muppets, premieres later this month. For a full review, see Tom Brinkmoeller’s Raised on MTM. And for a wonderful history of Henson's most famous creation, Kermit the Frog, see Noel Holston's The Grassy Noel. Check local listings.

2015

Sep

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "WALT DISNEY" By David Bianculli

Part 2 of 2. The first two hours of this American Experience documentary were devoted, for the most part, to Walt Disney’s initial rise: the things that led him to the creation and distribution of Mickey Mouse, the Silly Symphonies, and his first full-length animated cartoons, starting with 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and continuing with Pinocchio and Fantasia. Tonight, as Paul Harvey used to say, it’s The Rest of the Story. For a full review, see Tom Brinkmoeller&rs

2015

Sep

THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter’s new series begins like an ultraviolent fever dream – carnage and bloodlust on a 14-century Welsh battlefield. Turns out it is a dream, and a vision, which a young man (played by Lee Jones) interprets as a new path to follow. That path takes him, eventually, to a medieval undercover job, assuming the identity of the court executioner in an oppressive occupying royal aggressor. Stephen Moyer, from True Blood, gets to use his

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