CYCLE FINALE: This is the beginning of this show’s two-night finale for its latest edition, which has introduced, very successfully, Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys as the latest Voice judges. They’ve both done very well: Keys with her natural sincerity and beauty, and Cyrus with her bubbly young enthusiasm and rebellious streak. But they’re not going to emerge as winning judges their first time out. That honor will go to Adam Levine, thanks to Voice finalist Billy Gilman, who&rsqu

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MARS By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, the futuristic drama segment of this installment is inspired by an actual geological and meteorological phenomenon on Mars: planetary dust storms that envelop and temporarily smother the red planet. In the fictionalized dramatizations, this leads to a period of cabin fever – and the cabin is on a distant planet.

2016

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TIMELESS By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON FINALE: Tonight’s time-traveling episode takes the crew back to a revolutionary period – where they interact with Benedict Arnold, played by Curtis Caravaggio.

2016

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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Saturday Night Live didn’t do anything of substance with this week’s revelations about the extent of the Russians’ alleged involvement in the American presidential election, leaking only the Democratic side of hacked emails in order to help Donald Trump win. Bill Maher and John Oliver are both on hiatus, so we heard nothing from them in response. Samantha Bee, then, has the chance to step up and grab the satirical current-events spotlight for her own – something she&rsquo

2016

Dec

TV’S TRUE CRIME TALES: THE YEAR’S DEFINING TREND By Alex Strachan

In 1996, back in the day when November sweeps was a thing, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was resurrected as a two-night miniseries on CBS...

2016

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THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight, for the first time in half a century, CBS is presenting, in prime time, two episodes of the classic 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, created by Carl Reiner. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, for the first time, these episodes are colorized. As someone who’s just fine with the original, authentic black-and-white, I regret this computer-generated paint-by-numbers historical revision approach. But I also realize that if it gets a few million people to tune in, who

2016

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FROZEN By David Bianculli

This 2013 animated Disney movie really hit a nerve, especially with teenage and tween girls, and even pre-tweens. (If there isn’t such a word as pre-tweens, there is now.) Idina Menzel, who starred on Broadway as one misunderstood sorceress in Wicked, does it again here by providing the voice of Queen Elsa, a.k.a. the Snow Queen, made famous by Hans Christian Andersen – and, in modern times, equally famous by the folks at Disney. Kristen Bell co-stars as Elsa’s sister, Anna, Jo

2016

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GREAT PERFORMANCES: “THE HOLLOW CROWN: THE WARS OF THE ROSES” -- HENRY VI, PART I” By David Bianculli

Tonight and for the next two Sundays, PBS and Great Performances will continue the Shakespearean saga begun in The Hollow Crown with Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry V. Now we get the two parts of Henry VI (beginning tonight, concluding next week), followed by Richard III. In tonight’s Henry VI, Part I, Henry V is dead. Long live the King: And Henry VI should live long, because when he’s crowned king, he’s only an infant. Jump cut 17 years, and Henry VI is a young

2016

Dec

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode put most of the key players in place for a multi-pronged retaliatory attack: Carl joining the captive Daryl at Negan’s home base, Michonne capturing a Savior and demanding to be driven to Negan’s secret camp, Rosita arming herself with a single home-made bullet, and so on. With this being the midseason finale, it’s not out of line, or out of this show’s character, to expect a violent altercation, and even a death, tonight. Thoug

2016

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DIVORCE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This series, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as divorcing couple Frances and Robert, has picked up steam as it’s gone along, specifically in the mediation meetings featuring Frances and Robert and their respective attorneys. His is played by Dean Winters, who’s aggressive, sarcastic, and a bit slimy. Hers is played by Jeffrey DeMunn, who’s charming, confident, but mentally slipping. Their shared scenes, as when Frances explains the “to

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