DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
'Tis nobler by half to withhold errant judgment o'er the arts
For this Sherlock doggerel is enough to try men's hearts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
I know, this isn’t on TV – but it’s about TV, and when I appear tonight to talk about and sign copies of my new book The Platinum Age of Television, I’m planning to show some TV. Besides, Larry Edmunds Bookshop is a Hollywood bookstore – not only the first of its kind in Hollywood, as an independent store specializing in books about TV, the cinema, photography, theater and the media, but the last surviving one as well. I’ve been buying books from this shop sin
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
Live from Chicago, where his quest for the presidency began, retiring two-term U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a farewell address tonight. It’s expected to be covered by all the major news networks, and even some of the minor ones.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
SEASON FINALE: The first season of this unusual character study, starring Michelle Dockery as a kleptomaniac con woman with plenty of issues, concludes tonight, with Dockery’s Letty on the run, and seemingly painted into a dark, inescapable corner. But this is when con men, and con women, generally get the most inventive… Time to put on another wig and vamp, one way or another.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
This series returns for the new year, focusing on a new danger in the midst of the always beleaguered agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Last fall, in a disappointingly flat story arc, it was the Ghost Rider. Starting tonight, the focus is on Aida, a Life Model Decoy built to look and act human, but with an agenda all its own. Or her own, if we’re being both mechanically and politically correct. Mallory Janson, who co-starred on ABC’s musical comedy Galavant as Queen Madalena, plays Aida –
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Tom Hardy stars in this first new FX series of 2017, and it’s a daringly different type of role, series, and setting. Most of the action takes place in London, but it’s the London of 1814, when England is still reeling from the revolt of the American colonies. Hardy plays James Delaney, an adventurer with a strong claim on a key piece of land wedged between territories, and claimed by both British and U.S. interests. Flashbacks take Hardy, and the viewer, back to Afr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
Tom Hardy conveys menace with the ease of Jimmy Fallon conveying love to any and all of his late night guests. So that’s certainly not the problem with FX’s explicitly profane Taboo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
9
 
 
This London period-drama is grimy and brutish, seemingly with little decency either on the streets or in its well-appointed boardrooms...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
9
 
 
This is a warning, not a recommendation. The first installment in this show’s new iteration, which features former California governor and Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger as the new host, and retains former host Donald Trump in the credits as an executive producer, was televised last week. There were two big battles in last week’s bloated season premiere, and the men’s team, including Jon Lovitz and Boy George, won both of them. Now, with 11 days to go until Trump is inau
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
9
 
 
This one-hour documentary was released a decade ago, and is somewhat superficial – but it contains enough behind-the-scenes footage, vintage interviews, and clips from the old NBC series The Monkees to explain how this fabricated music group, the Pre-Fab Four, not only copied the Beatles, but rivaled them. And, at one point in the 1960s, outsold them.