SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 2 for American Crime, which takes the approach of American Horror Story by telling an all-new story while retaining many members of the original cast – but playing new characters entirely. So Timothy Hutton and Felicity Huffman, who last year played a divorced couple whose son was killed, are back for Season 2, but in completely different roles. So is Regina King, who won a Supporting Actress Emmy last year for playing the Muslim sister of a murder suspec

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Jan

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s the Season 11 premiere for this broad and bawdy comedy, which moved to FXX after years on more prominent sister network FX. What’s amazing is that – well, what’s really amazing is that this show has survived for 10 seasons. Let’s leave it at that.

2016

Jan

MAN SEEKING WOMAN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 2 for this outrageously surrealistic sitcom, which takes the idea of a character looking at life differently – think of the visual fantasies on Ally McBeal or, going back even more, My World and Welcome to It – and amplifies it. The images here are unexpected, unsetting, and sometimes unforgettable, all of which makes me look forward to a new batch of episodes. And the first shows of Season 2 more than meet my expectations, starting with the opener, wh

2016

Jan

ABC'S 'AMERICAN CRIME' RETURNS IN SUPERB FORM By Ed Bark

Cable network series, particularly dramas, were seriously challenged to measure up to the broadcast network counterparts. Now it’s a rarity when old-line networks equal or exceed the best that cable or streamers have been pouring out in abundance. ABC's Season 2 of American Crime is an exception to those new rules...

2016

Jan

MTV’S 'SHANNARA CHRONICLES' A RETRO-FUTURISTIC LOOK AT YOUNG LOVE By David Hinckley

MTV’s new Shannara Chronicles may be set thousands of years in the future, but to some of us old-timers, it feels like 1963 all over again..

2016

Jan

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: These are very personal stories, as Gates, with help from genealogists and DNA testing, uncovers the past of his celebrity guests, working back through many, many generations. This season, he’ll uncover some amazing facts about Bill O’Reilly and Bill Maher (including something they have in common), and even more amazing ones about Bill Hader – but tonight, his guests include Donna Brazile and Modern Family star Ty Burrell (pictured), who in this Season 3 opener

2016

Jan

KING KONG By David Bianculli

Willis O’Brien created the stop-motion effects in this 1933 monster-movie classic, inspiring several generations of special-effects wizards to come. Some are more effective than others, especially looking at them more than 80 years later – but imagine how amazing they must have seemed to audiences at the time. Fay Wray stars.

2016

Jan

FRONTLINE: "NETANYAHU AT WAR" By David Bianculli

Filmmaker Michael Kirk has provided some of the best Frontline programs since the series’ conception, so any time he produces a new one, it’s well worth the attention. Tonight, he examines a particularly timely and volatile issue in global politics, by probing the history and temperament of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – including his dealings with Palestinians and his often flinty relationships with U.S. Presidents, including our current one. Check local listings.

2016

Jan

THE GRINDER By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON RETURN: This very entertaining sitcom returns with the first new episode of 2016, and it provides an interesting twist: One of the brothers is jealous, but this time the jealous sibling is Rob Lowe’s Dean, not Fred Savage’s Stewart. It’s partly because a newspaper reporter is coming to town to write a profile of Stewart – but it’s also because one of Dean’s former Hollywood “friends,” Timothy Olyphant (in a recurring role as himself), is

2016

Jan

KILLING FIELDS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new nonfiction series, launching with a six-episode re-examination of a 19-year-old murder case from Louisiana, obviously owes its existence to such popular recent series as the podcast Serial and HBO’s Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, and arrives right on the heels of Netflix’s headline-grabbing Making a Murderer. What may make this new Discovery series stand out, in the long run, is its storytelling: Its executive producers are Barry Levinson and Tom

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