This new documentary, presented just before another weekend of NCAA tournament basketball, hones in on a much less celebratory chapter in college basketball history. A Baylor University men’s basketball star, student Patrick Dennehy, was killed in 2003. Teammate Carlton Dotson eventually pled guilty – the only NCAA incident on record in which a student athlete was convicted of murdering a fellow player. Former head coach Dave Bliss, implicated at the time in a Baylor cover-up, is amo

2017

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

What a week – but I think I’ve typed that for months now. Regardless, this week’s scheduled guests on Bill Maher’s lively public affairs talk and comedy show (these days, more talk than comedy) include political strategist Roger Stone, journalist Jose Antonia Vargas, and roundtable guests former senator Rick Santorum, national security expert Gen. Michael Hayden, and political activist Neera Tanden.

2017

Mar

ROBERT KLEIN STILL CAN'T STOP HIS LEG By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Robert Klein owns a significant chunk of bragging rights in the history of premium TV: His 1975 standup comedy special for HBO was the network’s – and, thus, television’s – first unedited, full-length comedy concert. More than 40 years later, Klein gets a proper full-length salute: a documentary profile reflecting his long and influential career, which continues to this day. The title refers to the most famous, and very funny, bit from Klein’s

2017

Mar

IN A MORE SHARPLY DIVIDED MEDIA LANDSCAPE THAN EVER BEFORE, IS THE TRUTH REALLY OUT THERE ANYMORE? By Ed Bark

True or false: The truth is out there. Answer: Basically false these days...

2017

Mar

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

For years, this sitcom has found new life, and new energy, by altering the dynamics of its characters, and throwing them into new situations – road trips, relationships, romances. Tonight, add another R to that list, with a new round of roommates. In this new episode, Raj, already painting with new colors because he’s newly poor, moves in with Penny and Leonard.

2017

Mar

RIVERDALE By David Bianculli

This series returns after a few weeks off – and spends time, this episode, with its parental figures as well as the Riverdale teens. And, surprise, they’re no less twisted…

2017

Mar

THE AMAZING RACE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This series has been around so long that this is the start of competing cycle number 29. That’s a lot of races, amazing or not. But on TV, familiarity, in some cases, breeds not contempt, but indifference. I used to enjoy this show, and watch it faithfully, but a few years ago it just started feeling stale, and much too repetitive. Tonight, this newest edition of Amazing Race shakes things up a bit. Instead of casting duos of friends, lovers, married couples, relativ

2017

Mar

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE By David Bianculli

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this experimental 1968 film, directed and (sort of) written by William Greaves, scheduled on television before. But certainly, half a century later, it can be viewed as anticipating both the genre of reality TV and such pretend “documentary” projects as The Office, Modern Family and Waiting for Guffman. (If you’re so inclined, and you can remember it, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One also is the perfect movie title to throw into the hat i

2017

Mar

HULU'S ‘HARLOTS’ BARES 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND By Ed Bark

Created, executive produced, written and directed entirely by women, Hulu’s Harlots is an equal opportunity flesh-barer with a not so underlying message...

2017

Mar

DESPITE AN ALREADY GUARANTEED SEASON 2, TV LAND'S LIMP ‘NOBODIES’ MIGHT JUST STAY THAT WAY By Ed Bark

A trio of real-life Hollywood grovelers all play themselves in TV Land’s Nobodies, which can be desperately amusing at times but too often comes off as just desperate...

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