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2015

Apr

WATCH, AND BE, 'SMARTER EVERY DAY' By David Bianculli

I tuned in to the Smarter Every Day YouTube video shown here, “Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics” – and I was hooked. And that was only the beginning...

2015

Apr

"YOU ARE NOT KEVIN COSTNER!" By Eric Gould

Here's a YouTube fan clip reminding us of how intertwined the plot references of Vince Gilligan's Better Call Saul are to its forefather, Breaking Bad...

2015

Mar

AND JON MADE NOAH AND SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD By Linda Donovan

Umm...who? I'm sure that's what a lot of you said this morning when Trevor Noah was announced as Jon Stewart's replacement for The Daily Show. You probably quickly Googled his name...

2015

Mar

LOOK AT WHAT LIVE TV IS HATCHING NOW By David Bianculli

You’d think, with the exponentially exploding number of viewing options available these days on cable, satellite, streaming sites and elsewhere, that I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch anything else. Yet I have, and I’m happy I did, because I’m found one of the purest and most addictive examples of reality TV I’ve ever seen...

2015

Mar

ANOTHER NEW PROGRAM PROVIDER JOINS THE TV GAME: THIS TIME IT'S PLAYSTATION By David Bianculli

A generation or two ago, it was superstation TBS, then premium cable provider HBO, bending the rules about what and how viewers could watch TV. Today (Tuesday, Mar. 10), another streaming video player joins the fray. It’s PlayStation...

2015

Mar

LARRY DAVID CHEWS ON CHARLIE ROSE By Eric Gould

Larry David is about to star in his new Broadway play about – what else – family dysfunction. David, notoriously cryptic and evasive about himself, was interviewed for 60 Minutes...

2015

Mar

'TONIGHT SHOW' WHEEL OF MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS By David Bianculli

If anyone still needed proof that the future of late-night broadcast TV isn’t in the broadcast-watching audience at all, but in the shared viral video clips posted afterward, here it is...

2015

Feb

FRANK UNDERWOLF'S 'HOUSE OF BRICKS' By Monique Nazareth

Sesame Workshop continues to prove it’s a master of the spoof. This time it’s Netflix series House of Cards...

2015

Feb

THEY COULD'VE USED A BIGGER SHOW By Linda Donovan

How could we not say something here in our Video Worth Watching feature about the recent SNL40 anniversary show? That’s a lot of variety show tulips to tiptoe through in order to choose the best of the best...

2015

Feb

BOB SIMON OUTTAKE FROM 'AMERICAN MASTERS' By David Bianculli

In 1998, the excellent PBS arts anthology series American Masters profiled CBS News icon Don Hewitt in an installment called Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes. One of the subjects interviewed for that program was Bob Simon, who died Feb. 11...