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 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

2017

Sep

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Saturday Night Live isn’t too far away from starting a new season – but for now, tuning in will get you an award-winning repeat from last season. Dave Chappelle is the guest host, making his first appearance as host. It was an appearance that ended up winning Chappelle his first Emmy Award, for Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.

2017

Sep

CINEMAX'S "MIKE JUDGE PRESENTS: TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS" TIES ONE ON WITH COUNTRY'S MOST SELF-DESTRUCTIVE STARS (MOST NOW DEAD) By Ed Bark

Hey network execs, just don’t say no to Mike Judge...

2017

Sep

THE TALE OF THE 'SUPER HURRICANES' ON SCIENCE CHANNEL By David Hinckley

You don’t have to have been caught in 125-mile-an-hour winds to have asked yourself in the last couple of weeks exactly what’s going on with hurricanes this year...

2017

Sep

THE FINAL SEASON OF '19-2' ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Hundreds of cop series over the years have reached for that intangible extra dimension and a small handful have found it: Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, The Wire...

2017

Sep

TRANSPARENT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 4 premiere of Transparent, and the new season begins with a very significant field trip: Jeffrey Tambor’s Maura is invited to deliver a speech in Israel, and decides to take her family along. But if you’ve watched this series enough to know her family, that’s not necessarily the smartest of plans.

2017

Sep

GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Premiering today on Netflix, this is a new behind-the-scenes, but fully approved, documentary about Lady Gaga, showing her at home, in the studio, and preparing for her new album – called Joanne, and dedicated to a late relative. The special also is framed around her Super Bowl LI halftime show, beginning and ending with the moments leading to that triumphant appearance. We don’t see a replay of that Super Bowl show here, but we do hear Gaga sing several times (most

2017

Sep

SUPER HURRICANES: INSIDE MONSTER STORMS By David Bianculli

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But sometimes, when the wind blows as fiercely as it has lately, it helps to have the Science Channel schedule an instant special to look at, and explain, the sudden barrage of super-potent hurricanes attacking from the Atlantic.

2017

Sep

MIKE JUDGE PRESENTS: TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new eight-part series is an animated show from Mike Judge, whose cartoon TV triumphs include Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill, and whose live-action TV triumphs include HBO’s current Silicon Valley. Here, he plays combination oral historian and visual storyteller, taking the actual recorded recollections of people involved with various touring musical acts and bringing them to life as half-hour cartoons. Judge also animates and records himself, as narrator an

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