DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

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LINDA DONOVAN

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2019
Dec
6
 
 
SPECIAL: Remember a few years ago, when TCM presented a long-lost live TV production of The Glass Menagerie, starring Shirley Booth? Well, tonight TCM is at it again – and good for them. This time, the once-lost, now-found Golden Age TV classic is a 1958 production of Wuthering Heights, starring Richard Burton and Rosemary Harris. Burton starred in it the year before appearing in the 1959 movie version of the John Osborne play, Look Back in Anger – which
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
6
 
 
People can fit any image they'd like. They can be dark leather or pink fluff, or both, switching from day-to-day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
6
 
 
Few things are subtle in Truth Be Told, an unsettling new series about a journalist and her subject who are both looking for redemption...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: The concept of this series – taking fairy tales and adapting them as very modern allegorical dramas – was much better than its execution last year. But now, for Season 2, it has a new chance to reboot and readjust. The primary plot threads, this season, borrow from three very familiar stories: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast. That last one puts a gender-reversal spin on it – a spin that looks a lot like a female Ph
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
5
 
 
This was yesterday’s Best TV Tomorrow video on TVWW, and today it’s not only the best of all Bianculli’s Best Bets, but the best Christmas special of the season, period. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen this animated special, first telecast by CBS in 1965. Charles Schulz’s timeless Peanuts characters are worth watching, and embracing, again and again and again. And before I die, I hope to learn how to play “Linus
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
5
 
 
It seems like only last week that NBC presented an SNL Thanksgiving special – hey, it was only last week! – and tonight, it presents its Christmas counterpart. But it’s a welcome holiday treat, because it’s bound to include not only Alec Baldwin talking about his particular brand of holiday goodies (“Schweddy balls”), but Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg singing about their particular brand of holiday gift-giving: “One, cut a hole i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
5
 
 
This is part two of the episode about the exorcism that has thrown the entire team into disarray – and maybe even danger, and not only of disbanding.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
5
 
 

TCM has no problem establishing itself as the best movie network. But every once in a while, it branches out into what might as well be called Turner Classic Television, by unearthing a long-lost TV treasure. Here comes another one…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
4
 
 
Put caustic Denis Leary amid holiday surroundings, and you won’t come away with any Hallmark goo on you. Well, maybe just a little...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Dec
4
 
 
Each December, our TV expectations become lower or looser...