SEASON PREMIERE: Last year, this long-dormant sitcom returned to TV along with another long-dormant former hit sitcom, ABC’s Roseanne. That series is returning this season, but under a new name and without its former star, whose tweets and other behavior led to her dismissal from her own show. The stars of Will & Grace engaged in no such extracurricular controversies – and, thus, return for Season 2 tonight without incident, and with a new roster of guest stars lined up for year

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MURPHY BROWN By David Bianculli

Last week’s Season 11 premiere, rebooting the series after a 20-year resting period, established that Candice Bergen’s Murphy Brown had come out of retirement to accept a new job as host of a cable news morning show. This week, Murphy dives back into the fray of covering the current White House administration by attending a White House press briefing – and getting there, in part, by wearing a disguise. And by confronting, through use of carefully edited news clips, White House

2018

Oct

LON CHANEY SR. SALUTE By David Bianculli

Lon Chaney Sr., the Man of a Thousand Faces, is tonight’s featured artist, and you can see a few of his faces in full view (or dimly lit) in this evening’s lineup. Most famously: At 9 p.m. ET, TCM presents the silent 1925 classic version of Phantom of the Opera (pictured). But there are other films, rarely shown even on TCM, that are very much worth watching, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with Tod Browning’s creepy 1927 film The Unknown, in which Chaney plays a killer hiding in a circ

2018

Oct

SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli

Has this long-running series finally lost its edge, and its appetite to approach third-rail subjects? Uh, no. Not even close. Last week, in its Season 22 premiere, South Park did a show about multiple school shootings, including at South Park. And tonight, in an episode called “A Boy and a Priest,” South Park has Butters developing a relationship with his parish priest that leads to Catholic Church leaders being notified, and called in. And this is only week two of the new season&hel

2018

Oct

HBO ADDRESSES THE EXPLOITATION OF UNIVERSITY PLAYERS WITH 'STUDENT ATHLETE' By David Hinckley

Several decades ago, University of Michigan basketball player Chris Webber recalled walking down the street wondering if he had enough money to buy a sandwich just as he passed a sporting goods store selling Chris Webber jerseys....

2018

Oct

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

The Gifted has a lot of added intrigue this season, including an Inner Circle, an insidious rogue group operating deep inside the already evil Hellfire Club. And it’s got some strong actors in the cast, including Amy Acker from Angel and Stephen Moyer from True Blood. But more and more, the way this series is using the mutant triplets known as the Frost sisters. Skyler Samuels plays all three roles (Esme, Sophie, and Phoebe), and what’s interesting is that she almost always plays all

2018

Oct

FRONTLINE: "TRUMP'S SHOWDOWN" By David Bianculli

This two-hour look at President Donald Trump, the latest from PBS’s Frontline, starts a long time ago, in Trump time, and shows how much influence, in Trump’s life and approach, was wielded by one of his first lawyers, the infamous Joe McCarthy protégé Roy Cohn. Check local listings.

2018

Oct

MR INBETWEEN By David Bianculli

This Australian import plays a bit like a Down Under version of Showtime’s Ray Donovan, with Scott Ryan as a fixer, and sometimes hit man, with a complicated work and home life. But it’s also, at times, surprisingly funny, and as it’s developed, its closest American counterpart may actually be HBO’s Barry. Which is, indeed, quite a compliment.

2018

Oct

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

We’re still in the Blind Audition rounds, which are some of this show’s most entertaining and emotional episodes. So watch – and, more to the point, listen.

2018

Oct

QUEEN OF THE WORLD By David Bianculli

HBO presents the U.S. premiere of this British documentary, which enjoyed unprecedented access, for more than a year, to Her Majesty the Queen and her royal family. Just don’t expect it to play like an episode of The Royal Housewives of Buckingham Palace. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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