Part 1 of 2. This two-night special, co-produced by ABC and People, is one of many Princess Diana TV shows keyed to the 20th anniversary of her death. This one includes an exclusive interview – exclusive to this country, anyway – with Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer. Concludes tomorrow night.

2017

Aug

THE CARMICHAEL SHOW By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: The last two first-run episodes of Jerrod Carmichael’s sharp-edged NBC sitcom are shown tonight, in the final hour of prime time. The Carmichael Show deserves better than a late-summer burn-off – then again, it deserved to be renewed, so this ignominious farewell date and time is the least of its problems. And of NBC’s.

2017

Aug

CLASSIC ALBUMS By David Bianculli

This is no secret, but is worth noting: Tonight’s new edition of this AXS series is No Secrets, the classic 1972 album from Carly Simon. It’s the one that included the intriguing hit song “You’re So Vain,” which Simon plays, and dissects, as part of this special.

2017

Aug

BROADCHURCH By David Bianculli

This is the penultimate episode of the season, and of this trilogy, so there’s a lot going on – and a lot of new clues surfacing, just in time.

2017

Aug

BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW By David Bianculli

This week’s sketches include “Last Year You Weren’t 40,” a skit that, like the infamous “Last F***able Day” sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, is a woman’s take on some of the potential indignities facing them as they reach certain chronological milestones.

2017

Aug

‘MR. MERCEDES’ IS FRIGHTFULLY WELL-DONE STEPHEN KING By David Hinckley

Audience TV’s new detective thriller Mr. Mercedes may be most notable for how it gets very disturbing very quickly...

2017

Aug

GLEN CAMPBELL 1936-2017 By Eric Gould

Country singer Glen Campbell died Tuesday, August 9 in Nashville, six years after his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis... Campbell performs here in 1968 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he became a popular regular and took over as a host of the brother's summer replacement series...

2017

Aug

LIGHT MY FIRE By Eric Gould

In case you haven’t heard, Game of Thrones Princess Daenerys Targaryen had just about enough of the Lannister army last Sunday and unleashed one of her now full-grown dragons. Things quickly increased in temperature...

2017

Aug

CARPOOL KARAOKE: THE SERIES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: In my latest book, 2016’s The Platinum Age of Television, in the chapter charting the evolution of TV talk shows, I concluded by suggesting that the future of talk shows might be to re-fashion them in smaller, self-contained mini-programs, as by taking the “Carpool Karaoke” segments from James Cordon’s The Late Late Show, which have amassed hundreds of millions of views when isolated on YouTube, and building a show around them alone. That idea, apparently

2017

Aug

DIFFICULT PEOPLE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The intentionally abrasive duo of Julie and Billy, played with irreverent glee by Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner, returns for Season 3. Billy gets a job as a TV show’s warm-up act, a plot device last explored in HBO’s Crashing – and Julie attends a Passover Seder, an even more familiar premise for TV comedy. But on Difficult People, expect, in both cases, unprecedented levels of rudeness. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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