PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger has fought this battle before, and come out of it in one piece. That doesn’t mean the fight for public broadcasting will end the same way this time, though, she warned...

2017

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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN By David Bianculli

This is the last edition of Saturday night’s The Essentials series on TCM in which Alec Baldwin’s co-host is former 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey. Next week, William Friedkin takes over. But for now, Fey and Baldwin end their summer run by presenting a perfect movie musical: 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, a joyous depiction of Hollywood during the transition from silent movies to the sound era. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and a young ingénue named Debbie Reynolds st

2017

Aug

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

We’re so close to the end of Orphan Black, and the stakes are so high for all the remaining characters, that you can almost count on at least one death per week from now on. Last week’s episode delivered on that promise, or that threat – and it wouldn’t surprise me if tonight’s does as well.

2017

Aug

GEORGE LOPEZ: THE WALL, LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. By David Bianculli

From the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., George Lopez presents his fourth standup comedy special for HBO. But this one is political, and it’s live – which, the way news is breaking these days, is the only way to deal with political humor these days. Current events, that’s one thing – but current events don’t begin to describe today’s pace of the daily news flow. It isn’t a current. It’s a tidal wave.

2017

Aug

INHERIT THE WIND By David Bianculli

On The Essentials tonight, guest co-host Tina Fey admits to always having had a crush on Gene Kelly, star of Singin’ in the Rain. And Kelly’s on view in this movie that’s paired tonight with Rain, though it’s a very, very different type of film. Inherit the Wind, filmed eight years after Singin’ in the Rain, features Kelly in a dramatic role, a supporting but key player in this intense play inspired by the infamous Scopes “monkey trial.” Evolution, educa

2017

Aug

TWO NEW SHOWS FOR JASON ALEXANDER By David Hinckley

Those ubiquitous Seinfeld reruns are just one of many places you’ll find Jason Alexander these days. He'll be in the new animated children's series Kody Kapow on the Sprout channel, and later this fall on the new Audience Network comedy Hit the Road...

2017

Aug

‘COMRADE DETECTIVE’ IS HARD TO EXPLAIN BUT EASY TO WATCH By David Hinckley

Like most spoof shows, Amazon’s Comrade Detective may have a finite life span. But the new series offers some clever moments out of the gate...

2017

Aug

AT TCA: STEVE HARVEY, THE MAN OF MANY HATS, AND NIELSEN, THE COMPANY OF MANY NUMBERS By Ed Bark

Steve Harvey defies ubiquitous. To say he's everywhere is to shortchange him. He somehow found time to appear late Thursday afternoon at NBC Universal's portion of the Television Critics Association press tour...

2017

Aug

COMRADE DETECTIVE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is so weird, it’s hard to describe, but here goes. It helps if you’ve been a fan of What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, like I have, for decades, because that Sixties Woody Allen film debut establishes a parallel – up to a point. In that film, Allen took an existing action film from the Pacific Rim, and dubbed it with intentionally incongruous and funny dialogue, to turn it into some absurd hunt for a secret recipe. Comrade Detective sort of does the same thing,

2017

Aug

ICARUS By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Bryan Fogel, a cyclist and a filmmaker, learned firsthand what many good reporters learn while investigating their subjects: Go where the story takes you, even if you didn’t expect to go there. In his case, he set out to make a film about the effects of performance-enhancing drugs, and intentional doping, on athletes in the cycling world. What he ended up doing was uncovering proof of a deep-seated, organized doping scandal by Russian athletes at the 2014 Olympic Game

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