SERIES PREMIERE: The newest entry in the Star Trek TV canon, launching a dozen years after the end of Star Trek: Enterprise, begins tonight – and begins as sort of a mystery, because no episodes were provided to critics for advance preview. I know I should be offended by that, but these days, any new TV I don’t have to watch is a gift. But Star Trek: Discovery, like CBS’s the Good Fight last season, is being presented as a bait-and-switch lure to try to get viewers to subscribe

2017

Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR “EPISODE 6 - THINGS FALL APART (JANUARY - JULY 1968)” By Alex Strachan

The helicopter. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, to be exact, or “Huey.” Designed to meet the US Army’s 1952 requirement for medical evacuation...

2017

Sep

CBS' TIME-SPANNING 'ME, MYSELF & I' IS DERIVIATIVE, HURRIED By Ed Bark

Perhaps CBS should add “This Is Us Presents” to the title of its new time-traveling, generation-spanning comedy. Me, Myself & I is similar in concept if not execution...

2017

Sep

ABC'S 'THE GOOD DOCTOR' IS BOTH AN AUTISTIC AND ARTISTIC TRIUMPH By Ed Bark

After playing Norman Bates for five years on A&E, Freddie Highmore knows what it is to have an out-of-body mind of his own... autistic surgical resident Shaun Murphy is mental without being disturbed in ABC’s affecting The Good Doctor...

2017

Sep

THE DEUCE By David Bianculli

It’s great news that HBO has renewed Deuce for a second season, because this first season ends just as the story is really heating up. But these intervening episodes are fascinating, and deep, character studies – and tonight, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy makes her first stiletto-heeled steps into the porn film business.

2017

Sep

RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli

Jon Voight, as Ray’s loose-cannon dad, has taken on unofficial avenging angel status this season – and tonight, intends to right a wrong by recovering the money – more than $1 million in cash – stolen from one of his sons. Meanwhile, another son, Ray, gets more dangerously intertwined with two different woman, while, at the same time, mourning a third.

2017

Sep

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. So here’s the deal: After CBS is through televising the premiere, for free, of Star Trek: Discovery, viewers immediately can watch episode two. But that’s only if they switch over to CBS All Access, the network’s subscription-fee streaming service, which will be showing all remaining Star Trek: Discovery episodes Sundays on a weekly basis. In other words, the first taste is free. Everything else, you have to pay for…

2017

Sep

EPISODES By David Bianculli

Matt LeBlanc and his writers are in deep huddle mode, trying to come up with one more series idea for him while his iron is hot, and his network has agreed to a contractually mandated new show. Matt already has a title, and a concept – but it turns out Whores is taken. So this week, the creative spit-balling continues.

2017

Sep

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Last week, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was not televised, because Oliver was in Los Angeles, winning a couple of Emmy: outstanding writing for a variety series, and outstanding variety talk series. This week, carrying all that gold, Last Week returns.

2017

Sep

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE By David Bianculli

This 1948 movie, presented by TCM tonight as one of “The Essentials,” was good enough to win Oscars for two generations of the same family. Walter Huston, who plays one of three less than trustworthy prospectors on the trail of the same reputed stash of gold, won for Best Supporting Actor – and his son, John Huston, won two Oscars of his own, for writing the screenplay and as Best Director. Also contributing greatly to this wonderful Western, though not walking away with statue

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