It’s the summer of ’68 when The Vietnam War picks up the thread in “The Veneer of Civilization.” The home front is restive. Americans of draft age face difficult decisions and hard moral choices in increasing numbers...

2017

Sep

MEGYN KELLY TODAY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Just a notation: Megyn Kellywhen leaving Fox News for NBC, positioned herself in a couple of high-profile places on her new network. One was Dateline NBC, where she entered with an attention-getting entrance by interviewing Vladimir Putin and others, then falling out of the spotlight. The other, long in the works, is her new show and showcase, which premieres today, on Today, as the show’s third hour, now retitled Megan Kelly Today. The first two hours of the show remain t

2017

Sep

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 11 premiere of this incredibly successful CBS sitcom, easily the most visible and popular program continuing the multi-camera, filmed-before-an-audience format instituted so long ago by another CBS sitcom, I Love Lucy. Tonight’s program picks up where last season’s comedy cliffhanger ended: with Jim Parson’s Sheldon on one knee, proposing to Amy (Mayim Bialik).

2017

Sep

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Cycle 13 of this good-hearted reality competition show – and good-hearted is what makes it stand out from so many others, which is why it just won another Emmy as Outstanding Reality Competition Series. The earliest episodes of each cycle are among the best, because they’re full of discovery and surprise. This cycle, the four judges who will listen to the voices of the contestants, and judge them sight unseen, are always-there anchors Blake Shelton and Adam L

2017

Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

Episode 7. Hold on to your historical seats. Tonight’s episode is titled “The Veneer of Civilization,” and it covers the period from June 1968 to May 1969. Just the summer of 1968 alone is one of the most tumultuous periods in our country’s history – I teach it, in my TV History & Appreciation class covering the 1960s and 1970s, and that summer alone because of the quantity and speed of tragic events. And this episode covers all that, then keeps going, in a mann

2017

Sep

YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Because today is the official start of the 2017-18 TV season, CBS is following its season premiere of The Big Bang Theory with that show’s new prequel series, Young Sheldon. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon on Big Bang, is here as well – in voice, at least, providing his adult perspective of his own childhood, as this new series revisits his past. It’s a filmed show, as was The Wonder Years, and has a tone commendably similar to that superb period sitcom. It also

2017

Sep

KEVIN CAN WAIT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For the Season 2 premiere, this otherwise negligibly mentionable sitcom makes a major, noteworthy change. Leah Remini, who co-starred as Kevin James’ wife on King of Queens, joins Kevin Can Wait as his co-star on this show as well. Not as his wife – but as his former police partner, a role she introduced at the end of last season. Given this change, the character played by James on Kevin Can Wait wouldn’t have to lose his current TV wife, played by Erinn Hayes&

2017

Sep

ME, MYSELF & I By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The high-concept idea behind This Is Us, looking at the same extended family through different generations, was last season’s biggest success for broadcast TV. It makes copycat sense, then, for similar ideas to find their ways onto the network schedules this season – and this new sitcom presents an unusual look at the same character, at very different points in his life, each played by a different actor. Jack Dylan Grazer plays the character of Alex Riley at age 14.

2017

Sep

THE OPPOSITION W/ JORDAN KLEPPER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Jordan Klepper, the snappiest Daily Show correspondent to make the transition from Jon Stewart to Trevor Noah, gets his own show beginning tonight. Comedy Central executives weren’t happy enough with The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (though I was), so here comes this new try at holding on to the Daily Show audience in the 11:30 ET time slot – a task that Stephen Colbert found so easy not so many years ago.

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.

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