This new extended interview, conducted by Dan Rather, sounds like such an odd-couple pairing, it deserves special mention. Rather’s guest is E Street Band member, and supporting cast member of The Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt.

2017

Dec

LENNON: THE NEW YORK YEARS By David Bianculli

I haven’t seen this, but it’s supposed to be a new documentary about John Lennon’s last years – the years he spent living in the Dakota in New York City. These years will include his comeback from self-imposed retirement, his final album – and, sadly, his death.

2017

Dec

'BIG CAT WEEK' RETURNS WITH THE DEFIANT ROAR OF "JAGUAR VS. CROC" By Alex Strachan

When you first hear the words “Big Cat Week,” it’s easy to make the association with Shark Week...

2017

Dec

‘THE NEWSPAPERMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN BRADLEE,’ TELLS THE STORIED LIFE OF AN ICON OF THE PRESS By David Hinckley

Famous Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee comes across in a new HBO biography as very much like the mainstream media: at times arrogant, at times agreeable, at times annoying, at times elitist, and in the best moments indispensable...

2017

Dec

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

This cycle’s competitors on The Voice are down to the Top 10. The good news is, the tighter the talent pool gets, the more impressively impressive it is. The bad news is, each eliminated finalist makes room for more pieces of padding in Monday’s two-hour program, more time for the judges to ramble, and another guest appearance by music stars, in this case, looking to boost their record sales for the holidays. But the music and the competitors at the center? Still worth watching, and

2017

Dec

THE NEWSPAPERMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN BRADLEE By David Bianculli

This new documentary is a biography of the famous Washington Post editor who presided over both Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. The latter case is the subject of a brand new movie, with Tom Hanks starring as Bradlee in The Post – and the former case inspired one of the best movies on the media and politics every made, 1976’s All the President’s Men, starring Jason Robards as Bradlee. Watching this documentary, then that latter movie, would be a superb double feature…

2017

Dec

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT By David Bianculli

A night of boxing films begins with a classic movie that actually began as a live Golden Age TV drama. The 1962 film version of Requiem shown tonight on TCM stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney, and features a small role by a young fighter called Cassius Clay – but six years before that, a brand-new CBS anthology series in its second week on the air, Playhouse 90, presented the premiere of Requiem for a Heavyweight on live TV. It starred Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, and Ed

2017

Dec

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

After a week off, The Gifted returns with an episode that finds the central family fully united – and the hidden mutants united as well, in a raid against their newly identified adversaries at Trask Industries. But that battle, like the others the band of fugitives has waged this season, comes with quite a cost.

2017

Dec

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN By David Bianculli

After its Ben Bradlee documentary, HBO is presenting, uncut and interrupted, the best follow-up movie possible. Made in 1976. Starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and Jason Robards. Still thrilling, no matter how many times you’ve seen it – and I’m probably closing in on around 50. It’s the story of a major daily newspaper investigating, and helping to bring down, a corrupt presidency. More relevant than ever. Real news!

2017

Dec

FIFTY YEARS OF 60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

The title of this special hints at the unavoidable, unsolvable problem with this salute to 60 Minutes, the granddaddy of TV newsmagazines, which was launched by producer Don Hewitt and anchors Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner in 1968. Minus commercials, that works out to about one minute of current CBS airtime for every year of 60 Minutes – one reason this special seems more like a slideshow on fast-forward than a salute to prime-time TV’s most enduring, and arguably most important, s

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