DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2020
Nov
5
 
 
You can provoke a lively discussion by asking people what they would do if they learned that, for one reason or another, they had only two weeks to live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
 
 
Exactly what we need as the dark winter approaches: A fresh, new star – well, new to some people – in a first-rate comedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Can you believe this is Season 4 for this warm-hearted spinoff prequel to CBS’s The Big Bang Theory? Neither can I. But this sitcom is one of three consecutive sitcoms occupying prime time, in a row, by the same comedy TV producer, Chuck Lorre. Garry Marshall used to do that sort of thing in the 1970s, with Happy Days and all its offshoots. Chuck Lorre does it now… and is almost single-handedly keeping the old-fashioned sitcom alive.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Chuck Lorre, Exhibit B. A new entry. For full reviews, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Chuck Lorre, Exhibit C. And can you believe this is the Season 8 premiere – count ’em, eight! – for Allison Janney’s Mom sitcom. Me, either. And though Janney remains with the show, original co-star Anna Faris, beginning this season, does not.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
5
 
 
On this day in 1987, NBC premiered the Hill Street Blues spinoff, Beverly Hills Buntz...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
4
 
 
On this day in 1949, the popular radio serial One Man's Family made its television debut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
4
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Netflix has imported a few Swedish series before, and run them with subtitles, and is doing it again with this new eight-part comedy-drama series. It’s about an older woman and a younger man who fall into an exciting but increasingly dangerous game of seduction, in which they trade dares. Whatever the one says, the other must do – and, like the French film Love Me If You Dare, this romantic arms race soon escalates into something more serious.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
4
 
 
Last night, Showtime televised this special live, beginning it at 11 p.m. ET and starting with a Trump cartoon before Stephen Colbert showed up, with his wife watching from a safe distance, as he tried to mine comedy out of what was happening with the 2020 election results. Four years ago, he had done a similar live special with a full studio audience, and it was dismally unfunny… because the audience was weeping, and Colbert himself was fighting his emotions at what he was seeing. Last n
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
3
 
 
You can, and will, watch your personal favorite news outlet as you monitor tonight’s election results. As a TV critic, I usually make it a point to bounce around, and compare and contrast, and I’ll be doing some of that tonight. But the news network that has earned default position, for me, is MSNBC, where the conversational byplay between host Brian Williams and the all-star panel of Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace is matchless and helpfully informative, as are Steve Ko