SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. For two seasons, this forgettable TV spinoff of the Scream horror movie franchise was shown on MTV. Season 3 was planned for a 2016 debut on MTV, but has sat on the shelf until now – and now, three years later, appears not on MTV, but on sister network VH1. And not as a weekly series, but burned off as quickly as possible: two back-to-back episodes tonight, with two more televised Tuesday and Wednesday. In other words, VH1,

2019

Jul

LEGION By David Bianculli

A future version of Syd (Rachel Keller) fears that the powerful mutant psychic David (Dan Stevens) is the reason the world ends, and travels back in time to kill him before that happens. David, meanwhile, hopes that if he travels back in time himself, he can put things right, and establish a new time line that doesn’t involve destroying the planet. And in the weird world of Legion, it’s quite possible they’re both right…

2019

Jul

ARE AMERICANS READY FOR MUGGING PEOPLE OFF ON 'LOVE ISLAND'? By Kim Akass

So, CBS has snapped up ITV2's reality extravaganza, Love Island. Currently in Season 5, Love Island has become the UK show to watch over the long summer months and counts such British luminaries as Jeremy Corbyn, Adele, and Stormzy among its fans...

2019

Jul

NEW SPECIALS REVISIT THE FIRST WALK ON THE MOON By David Hinckley

Something like half a billion people gathered around TV sets in 1969 to watch a moment that remains an exhilarating testament to what humans can do when they don’t waste so much of their energy fighting each other. So it should surprise no one that television will spend many hours this month revisiting that event...

2019

Jul

LUNAR TV: CELEBRATING THE MOON LANDING By Mike Hughes

As moon-landing films fill our screens, something becomes clear – the world has changed profoundly in the past 50 years...

2019

Jul

FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli

Here it is: The 2019 FIFA World Cup Women’s Final, with the U.S.A. vs. the Netherlands. The U.S. is in white, the Dutch is in yellow, and this final should be a very colorful, flowing game.

2019

Jul

CNN LOOKS AT DECADES AGAIN – THIS TIME THROUGH 'THE MOVIES' By Mike Hughes

As the 1980s began, movie moguls were still in their '60s/'70s haze. Perplexed by the new generation, they'd written big checks to "auteurs" – directors who looked and sounded hip and artful. Then Heaven's Gate happened...

2019

Jul

THE MOVIES: "THE EIGHTIES" By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Last night, CNN repeated all the TV-related episodes of its popular series of Decades documentaries – using them not only as filler for the holiday weekend, but also to consistently and constantly promote this new series from the same producers at Tom Hanks’ production company. This one is devoted to The Movies, with a different decade each installment, beginning tonight with “The Eighties.” That was a good decade for

2019

Jul

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

I’m beginning to think of Meryl Streep’s Mary Louise as the maternal equivalent of Walter White’s in-law and nemesis, Hank, on Breaking Bad. In both cases, Hank and Mary Louise are related to the drama’s protagonist by marriage: Hank was married to Walter’s wife’s sister, while Mary Louise was the mother of Perry, the now-dead husband of Nicole Kidman’s battered wife Celeste. Both Hank and Mary Louise are persistent bloodhounds, he on the trail

2019

Jul

APOLLO: MISSIONS TO THE MOON By David Bianculli

This month is the golden anniversary of Apollo 11’s successful voyage to the moon, so expect, and enjoy, lots of related TV documentaries to mark the occasion. This is one of them. For overviews of the Apollo 11 anniversary programming, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

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