Doctor Who doesn’t return until April 15, but once again it’s facing a recurring existential question: Who will play the next Doctor when the rebooted series returns the following season?...

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FX GOES THOROUGHLY MONDO MARVEL -- AND BRILLIANTLY SO -- WITH ‘LEGION’ By Ed Bark

Even David Lynch might be stunned into submission by the beautifully hypnotic weirdness of Legion...

2017

Feb

DAN STEVENS STARS IN FX’S ‘LEGION,’ A TEXTURED, MULTI-LAYERED SURPRISE By David Hinckley

Dan Stevens wants viewers of FX’s Legion to have more fun than his character is having. In the new sci-fi drama, Stevens plays David Haller, a young man who may have one of the greatest powers on earth and doesn’t know it...

2017

Feb

NATURE: "SPY IN THE WILD" By David Bianculli

This Nature miniseries, built around animatronic creatures placed in natural environments to watch and capture how real animals react to them, is so much fun to watch. Tonight’s installment is called “Intelligence,” and shows such unpredictable interactions as a real squirrel stealing a “spy nut” from its mechanical counterpart. Well, “mechanical” isn’t the precise word to describe this fabricated squirrel replica, but what is? “Inhuman&rdquo

2017

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MADIBA By David Bianculli

Part 2 of 3. In this central section of BET’s three-part, six-hour docudrama biography of Nelson Mandela, played by Laurence Fishburne, Mandela begins serving a life sentence at Robben Island. But as we know, next week’s concluding segment will see Mandela out of jail, and triumphantly ascending to the world stage.

2017

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CITY IN THE SKY By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This three-part series is based on an interesting premise: that at any given time, enough human beings are aloft, traveling from one place to another in commercial and private aircraft, that the millions of them constitute a City in the Sky. (And no, for you fans of mythology or the Who, it’s not named Armenia.) This first installment is titled “Departure.” And its subject was recently made even more complex after a White House Muslim ban isn’t a ban,

2017

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LEGION By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: I love this new series. Noah Hawley, who already has adapted the brilliant Coen Brothers Fargo movie into a pair of equally brilliant, tone-perfect miniseries, has made it 3 for 3 by serving up this utterly fascinating new series. It’s based on a character from 1980s-era Marvel Comics, but this doesn’t look or feel at all like a televised comic book. It’s more like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest crossed with LSD. Dan Stevens, who crushed the hearts of mi

2017

Feb

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

I can’t guarantee that Samantha Bee will do a segment tonight on the treatment of Elizabeth Warren by some of her congressional colleagues. But I can sure picture it…

2017

Feb

“OUR SHOW WAS MUCH TOO HIP, SO WE GOT CEN-SOR-SHIP…” By Eric Gould

David has recapped The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 50th anniversary for the New York Times this week, and in his TVWW blog. Looking back, it’s no surprise the young brothers got their own show on CBS in 1967. Their timing, charm and wit were quite something... The brothers returned to CBS in 1988 for a memorable reunion special...

2017

Feb

PBS RETURNS TO ‘OKLAHOMA CITY’ AND THE MURRAH FEDERAL BUILDING By David Hinckley

We all know people who say they don’t watch PBS because it’s too much like the lectures they used to sleep through in high school or college...

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