Take note, especially if you’re French: Tonight TCM has scheduled a special five-movie tribute to the recently departed Jerry Lewis. Five movies, starting in prime time at 8 p.m. ET with his 1963 crowd-pleaser, The Nutty Professor (pictured). Also included: At 10 p.m. ET, his later-career 1983 dramatic role as a kidnapped talk show host in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, followed at midnight ET by 1952’s The Stooge, in which he and Dean Martin tried to capture both the al

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Sep

CBS FALL PREVIEW By David Bianculli

ABC presented its fall preview special yesterday. CBS also sees the wisdom of tossing off such a special on a Labor Day Weekend, but if you’re curious, you can sample, among other things, Young Sheldon, which is a Big Bang Theory prequel which gives the Wonder Years treatment to scenes from the early childhood of the character established, and voiced as an adult looking back on his own youth, by Jim Parsons.

2017

Sep

ABC FALL PREVIEW SPECIALS By David Bianculli

Because of the holiday weekend, it’s an exceptionally quiet Sunday night for television – a temporary condition that, I assure you, will be corrected by this time next Sunday. But for now, tonight’s slim pickings include this ABC Fall Preview special, which highlights the new and returning ABC series. In some cases, this is less treat than trick – especially in the case of The Inhumans, the new ABC Marvel Comics series that premieres later this month on the network, but o

2017

Sep

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: The TV event of the night, without question, is the two-hour, two-episode finale of Twin Peaks: The Return. Last week, in hour 16 of this 18-hour revisit by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Kyle MacLachlan’s Dale Cooper finally, finally, showed up, at least mentally. But with two hours to go, Sheryl Lee’s Laura Palmer, the central mystery of the original Twin Peaks series, has yet to appear, except as a vision – and since she appeared with Cooper, in the original seri

2017

Sep

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID By David Bianculli

Another classic movie showing up this weekend on TV, 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one of my favorite films – and certainly one that I’ve written about, and recommended, in Bianculli’s Best Bets more than almost any other. But when a film is this perfectly realized, that can’t be against the rules. Rules? In a knife fight? No rules!

2017

Sep

MIGHTY TRAINS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is one of two new Smithsonian travel series premiering tonight. The other, at 8 p.m. ET, is Mighty Cruise Ships, and both, basically, are free advertising for specific travel lines. But so many people, young and old, have a particular fascination about trains, that I thought mentioning it would keep me, with those particular vacationing enthusiasts, on the right track.

2017

Sep

ENCORE By Eric Gould

File under guilty pleasures, but we well remember tuning into the annual 24 hour MDA Telethon when Jerry Lewis hosted it for almost five decades. As donations for research rolled in, audience treats included Lewis’ usual antics...

2017

Sep

ACORN REPRISES 'THE GOVERNOR' FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND By David Hinckley

Fans of Janet McTeer, which should mean everyone, can get a lovely serving of her early work when Acorn TV revives her 1995-95 series The Governor just in time for Labor Day...

2017

Sep

'TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN': MORE ART THAN ANYTHING ELSE By Roger Catlin

A new two hour David Lynch film premieres on cable tonight... that it is also the two-hour season finale of Twin Peaks: The Return should not dampen enthusiasm a whit.

2017

Sep

SHELLEY BERMAN 1925 – 2017 By David Hinckley

Shelley Berman may have been the first person whose career was crippled by reality television. Okay, the second, if you count Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But McCarthy deserved it...

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