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2019

Jan

THE 2019 GOLDEN GLOBES: HOW THE SMALL SCREEN GREW BIG ALL OF A SUDDEN By Alex Strachan

A new year, another awards season...

2019

Jan

'THE BLACKLIST' IS BACK WITH ITS SIXTH SEASON By David Hinckley

NBC's The Blacklist opens its new season with one of the most bizarre bank robbery scenes you'll ever witness on television...

2019

Jan

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON PREMIERE: Shuffling the deck – or mixing and matching various sets of characters to explore how they interact together – always has been this sitcom’s not-so-secret weapon. In this midseason return, passing the halfway point of this durable show’s final season, the gang divides into teams of two to play one another in a typically competitive paintball game. Except this time, only one couple, Sheldon and Amy, pairs off together. For the rest, it’s a chance

2019

Jan

THE TITAN GAMES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Sight unseen, which is the way NBC wants it until this new 10-part competition series begins tonight, The Titan Games sounds like it’s borrowing from several already successful formats. From American Ninja Warrior (which itself borrowed wholesale from a Japanese TV show), there are the giant, outrageous physical challenges. From Iron Chef (again, a Japanese show eventually adapted by a U.S. network), there’s a roving reporter and some sideline commentary. From Ellen&

2019

Jan

ON THE WATERFRONT & A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE By David Bianculli

TCM certainly is starting off the first week of 2019 with a bang. Tonight it’s presenting a prime-time double feature of Marlon Brando movies – and not just movies, but indelible, incredibly influential classics. At 8 p.m. ET, it’s 1954’s On the Waterfront, written by Budd Schulberg, directed by Elia Kaza, and co-starring Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, it’s the Brando film that established him as an instant movie star

2019

Jan

THE MASKED SINGER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This 10-episode singing competition series, hosted by Nick Cannon, is based on the South Korean show King of Mask Singer, but with a key difference. The original series, still running and very popular after several years on TV in South Korea, is kind of like The Voice, with singers competing, sight unseen, before a panel of judges. Instead of having the judges turn their chairs to avoid seeing the singers, though, these singers are disguised by elaborate and highly stylized full

2019

Jan

NOVA: "PLUTO AND BEYOND" By David Bianculli

Three years after providing the first astounding close-up photos during a fly-by of Pluto, the spacecraft called New Horizons approaches an even newer horizon, and this new Nova is along for the ride. New Horizons is now four billion miles from Earth, and still capable of gathering and relaying invaluable information about its travels. It’s about to approach the Ultima Thule, and information about it may crack some of the secrets of the mysterious Kulper Belt (one mystery solved long ago:

2019

Jan

BATMAN MARATHON By David Bianculli

Happy New Year!!! Beginning exactly at midnight ET – Holy Happy New Year, Batman! – IFC presents a marathon of the entire first season of ABC’s mod, mad, improbably entertaining Batman series, starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader and Burt Ward as his sidekick Robin, the boy wonder. The action begins with “Hi Diddle Riddle” and “Smack in the Middle,” the episodes introducing Frank Gorshin as the Riddler – with Jill St. John as, if my memor

2019

Jan

LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For the third and final season of this charming adaptation of Daniel Handler’s series of Lemony Snicket books, this Netflix series adapts the final books in the canon: The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, and the two perfectly titled adventures, The Penultimate Peril and The End. Patrick Warburton continues as the author’s alter ego, playing Lemony Snicket as a sort of kid-lit Rod Serling (see above). And Neil Patrick Harris, as the recurring and chameleonic villain

2019

Jan

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON PREMIERE: Back for the second half of its second season, The Gifted begins with some members of the Mutant Underground in custody, and others seeking to survive by forming new alliances. Meanwhile, the Strucker’s teenage daughter Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lynd) is getting noticably more powerful, unpredictable – and out of control. Did I mention she was a teenager?

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