Felicity Jones, star of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is the guest host of this new edition, and Sturgill Simpson is the musical guest. And while I realize Alec Baldwin won’t be available every week to portray Donald Trump, this week would seem to be an especially fortuitous installment for him to come play.

2017

Jan

HBO HAS THE DAMNDEST THING IN 'THE YOUNG POPE' By Ed Bark

Holy smokes, what will American audiences make of The Young Pope, which already has been underway in Italy since late October?...

2017

Jan

MARGO MARTINDALE’S NEWEST DEVOTED BUT SHIFTY MOM IN ‘SNEAKY PETE’ By David Hinckley

The general rule with Margo Martindale’s characters in recent years is to become wary when she seems to get all nice...

2017

Jan

LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Forget about the Jim Carrey movie from a dozen years ago. This new Netflix version, overseen by Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler and Barry Sonnenfeld (one of the show’s gifted directors), is delightful from start to finish. Well, start to the end of episode eight, which is all Netflix is providing during this first go-round. Each book in the original Series of Unfortunate Events series, telling of the continuing misadventures of a trio of orphaned siblings whose family

2017

Jan

SNEAKY PETE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Originally made for CBS, then picked up by Amazon, this series has a mouth-watering pedigree. It’s a drama series created by Bryan Cranston, star of Breaking Bad, and David Shore, co-creator of House – who worked with the creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, on Battle Creek for CBS. This one also has, as another executive producer, Graham Yost of Justified and The Americans. Giovanni Ribisi stars as a ex-con con man who adopts the identity of a former cellmate, a

2017

Jan

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) attending a family bar mitzvah. And expect some music, because Patti LuPone guest stars as the rabbi.

2017

Jan

CLEOPATRA FILM FESTIVAL By David Bianculli

How’d you like to spend a night with Cleopatra? (Sorry to frame the question that way, but I had to asp.) Tonight, TCM shows a small bouquet of movies featuring the queen of the Nile, starting at 8 p.m. ET with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1934 Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert (pictured). Then, at 10 p.m. ET, is the most famous Cleopatra film of all: the 1963 epic, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Those are followed by 1964’s British co

2017

Jan

EMERALD CITY By David Bianculli

In this episode, keep your eye on the character of Tip (Jordan Loughran), whose gender-bending persona, harking all the way back to author L. Frank Baum’s original Ozma of Oz, is almost shockingly topical. I’d say more, but I don’t want to Tip my hand…

2017

Jan

TAKING QUESTIONS NO PROBLEM FOR FOX EXECS AT TCA17 By Bill Brioux

Not all network executives are ‘fraidy cats....

2017

Jan

THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF 'THE REAL MAD MEN OF ADVERTISING' By David Hinckley

The executives who shaped the modern advertising industry in the 1950s and 1960s may not have been as fascinating as Don Draper, but their impact was even more dramatic. At times, in fact, almost a little creepy...

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