Everyone from Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to Larry Wilmore and Trevor Noah have had fun, the last few days, reacting to Sarah Palin’s wordy and rambling endorsement of Donald Trump this week. Tonight, it’s Bill Maher’s turn.

2016

Jan

DESPERATE LIVES PLAYED FOR GRINS IN FX'S FINELY WOVEN 'BASKETS' By Ed Bark

FX’s male-centric misery index remains very much alive and suffering... But all are pre-serpent Gardens of Eden compared to FX’s Baskets, in which Zach Galifianakis plays perhaps the saddest sack in TV series history...

2016

Jan

SUPERSIZED CW SUPERHERO CAST GETS DOUBLEWIDE PREMIERE By David Hinckley

You don’t just need a scorecard to keep track of the players in the new CW series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. You need a 64GB flash drive...

2016

Jan

BEN WHISHAW PLAYS RECKLESS AND RELUCTANT IN 'LONDON SPY' By David Hinckley

London Spy, a mystery series that kicks off at 10 p.m. ET Thursday on BBC America, will delight viewers who savor peeling the onion slowly...

2016

Jan

DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is a warning, not a recommendation. This new series – the latest from the folks behind CW’s Arrow and The Flash – gathers together a group of supporting recurring players from those series, adds some new ones, and presents a time-travel series in which someone from the future tries to change that future, Terminator-style, by going into the past, gathering heroes and villains for a special squad, and setting out to alter the timeline. That’s the premi

2016

Jan

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

The auditions phase ends with tonight’s two-hour installment – so after tonight, whichever contestant will end the season bookending American Idol, we’ve already seen him. Or, as is much more likely given the talent sent on to Hollywood thus far, her.

2016

Jan

LONDON SPY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new series stars Ben Wishaw, from The Hours, as a young man whose lover dies mysteriously. When he seeks to investigate his lover’s death, he finds himself investigated, and more, by what turns out to be a whole cabal of spies. One twist in this telling of what sounds like a familiar tale is that the lover is male – and many of the other twists spin out from that revelation. Jim Broadbent co-stars. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watc

2016

Jan

BASKETS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: One of the executive producers of this new Zach Galifianakis series is Louis C.K., which makes perfect sense: Baskets, starring Galifianakis as a sad sack of a guy whose ambition is to be a clown in the best comedic tradition, is as much character study as comedy. But it’s fascinating. Galifianakis plays Chip Baskets, a young man who borrows money from his mom (a bizarrely cast, yet instantly endearing, Louie Anderson) to go to clown college in Paris. But he doesn’t

2016

Jan

DARK NET By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This half-hour documentary series, each week, looks at different aspect of what is called the “deep web” – the stuff most people can’t or don’t access, and what’s available and happening there. Proceed at your own risk – but, if you’re curious, definitely proceed.

2016

Jan

ZACH GALIFIANAKIS TALKS ABOUT HIS 'BASKETS' COUSINS -- LAUGHTER AND CRYING By David Hinckley

“With this show, you have to find the balance,” said Galifianakis. “But in sadness, there are things that are funny. Sadness itself can be very funny. Laughter and crying are cousins..."

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