As a viewer who would sit in front of a TV set to watch Ruth Wilson cut up a lemon, I can report that in her new series she looks as if she’s been sucking on one...

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MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN By David Bianculli

It’s “Fernando” the ABBA song, sung by Cher the icon. And that’s only one scene, though a big one, in this 2018 jukebox movie musical. Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried reprise their roles of mother Donna and daughter Sophie – and Lily James appears in flashbacks as a younger (and much friskier) Donna.

2019

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new edition of SNL, the first in a few weeks, Sandra Oh is the guest host, and Tame Impala is the musical guest (that’s lead singer Kevin Parker with Kenan Thompson and Oh). And expect, I’m guessing, a cold-open appearance by Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, in full-out victory mode.

2019

Mar

2019 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Fresh off the games that got them here, the teams in this year’s Elite 8 battle this weekend to try to make it to next week’s Final Four. Tonight, TBS presents two out of this weekend’s four games. At 6 p.m. ET, it’s the West regional final, with No. 1 Gonzaga facing No. 3 Texas Tech. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET, it’s the South regional final, with another No. 1 seed, Virginia, facing another No. 3: Purdue.

2019

Mar

NETFLIX'S 'THE HIGHWAYMEN' IS SUITABLY STAR-DRIVEN BY COSTNER AND HARRELSON By Ed Bark

Trumpeted as “the untold story” of the “legends who took down Bonnie & Clyde,” Netflix’s The Highwaymen, in fact, isn’t the first film to give famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer a fair shake...

2019

Mar

'HANNA' DROPS ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley

The TV version of Hanna turns out to be a weird and strangely endearing hybrid of a dark, lethal spy drama and a breezy, even cheerful snapshot of liberated youth...

2019

Mar

HANNA By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Amazon drama series is based on the 2011 movie of the same name, and is produced by the same writer, David Farr. It’s about a teen girl raised in isolation by her former spy father, who grooms her to be able to defend herself – as an expert assassin – and eventually to revenge the death of her mother by sinister enemies. The movie made a star of young Saroirse Ronan, and this new TV version presents a multifaceted actress in Esme Creed-Miles, who, even

2019

Mar

SANTA CLARITA DIET By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 3 for this zombie comedy, which has Drew Barrymore as a real estate agent adjusting to life after death. Or, rather, as life as a member of the flesh-eating, brain-craving undead. Just as the similarly afflicted characters of the CW’s iZombie have tried their best to adjust and blend in, so does Barrymore’s Sheila, who tries to control her appetite by targeting and consuming only the bad people of her community – a sort of zombie Dexter, with

2019

Mar

2019 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Once again, CBS and TBS share duties televising today’s Sweet 16 games. And tonight, there are no double-digit seeds left in the East and Midwest brackets, and the competition has advanced pretty much as predicted (though not without some buzzer-beating drama). In the East, for example, the four teams left standing are the top four seeds: No. 1 Duke (pictured) plays No. 4 Virginia Tech at 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS, while No. 2 Michigan State plays No. 3 LSU before that, on the same network, at 7

2019

Mar

DIAL M FOR MURDER By David Bianculli

In 1954, shortly before she decided to give up acting in movies to become a real-life princess in Monaco, Grace Kelly made a handful of movies, including two for Alfred Hitchcock. One was the classic Rear Window – but just before that, she worked for the director in this screen adaptation of the stage play.

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