Here’s President Harry S. Truman’s address, January 20, 1949, from the first presidential inauguration to be televised. Truman, although having run as an incumbent after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, trailed his opponent in many polls of the day, similar to the data stream of 2016...

2017

Jan

VICELAND AND 'DESUS & MERO' CONTINUE TO CHANGE LATE NIGHT... AND MILLENNIAL TV By Bill Brioux

Launched less than a year ago, Viceland is still the new kid on the block. We aren’t quite sure what it is yet, other than the channel millennials watch when they do watch something as quaint as television...

2017

Jan

NETFLIX 'SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' IS, FORTUNATELY, A DELIGHTFUL TV SERIES By David Bianculli

Season 1 of Netflix’s delightful new version of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was unveiled Friday. I spoke with one of the show’s executive producers and directors, Barry Sonnenfeld of Men in Black and Pushing Daisies fame, to discuss the new remake…

2017

Jan

LANGE AND SARANDON WILL TEAM UP IN FABULOUS 'FEUD' By Bill Brioux

Hard to top Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon for star power here at TCA17... The two no-nonsense Oscar-winners star in Feud: Bette & Joan...

2017

Jan

CARRIE-ING ON WITH SEASON 6 OF ‘HOMELAND’ By Ed Bark

At the close of Homeland’s Season 5, CIA heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) seemingly pulled the plug on the comatose Peter Quinn after reading his love letter to her. But the room brightened as she did so, signaling something or other...

2017

Jan

CARRIE CONTINUES TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IN THE NEW SEASON OF 'HOMELAND' By David Hinckley

Fifteen years after 9/11, it’s probably time for a report card on how we’ve done with our response – and Showtime’s Homeland is raising the possibility we’ve taken some serious missteps...

2017

Jan

PBS' 'VICTORIA' TAKES A MAJESTIC LOOK AT AN EXALTED MONARCH By David Hinckley

First Queen Victoria lost her spot as the longest-reigning British monarch to Queen Elizabeth II. Now the same Elizabeth may be crowding into Victoria’s television spotlight...

2017

Jan

THE LETTERS OF 'VICTORIA' By David Hinckley

We may not have much meaningful film of Britain’s Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, but Daisy Goodwin says she left an equally revealing imprint: a lifetime of handwritten letters...

2017

Jan

NFL FOOTBALL AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

Today, in the first of two Sunday divisional playoff games, it’s the AFC contest, with the Pittsburgh Steelers visiting the Kansas City Chiefs. When Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger faced the Chiefs earlier this season, the Steelers won by a brutal 43-14 spread.

2017

Jan

NFL FOOTBALL NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

The weekend’s final divisional game pits the NFL’s Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys, who have home-field advantage. But the Packers have QB Aaron Rodgers, who basically is the league’s hottest player right now, peaking at the exact right time.

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