SEASON PREMIERE: This New Zealand drama, starring Erik Thomson as a man trying to raise his family in a remote New Zealand coastal town, returns for Season 3. Note, please, that I managed to describe 800 Words in 50 words or less. Forty-six, to be precise.
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Cinemax detective series is based on the crime novels by Robert Galbraith – which might not mean much, unless you are aware that Galbraith is one of the pseudonyms of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who crafted these stories about a war veteran turned London detective. The seven episodes cover the three Strike novels published to date, with Tom Burke as the title character, and Holliday Grainger as his Watson-like assistant. For a full review, read Ed Bark's Uncle Barky Bytes.
Tonight’s scheduled guests include Bernie Sanders, Paul Begala, and, for Maher the avowed atheist (is there such a thing?), a noteworthy guest indeed: Charlamagne Tha God. (For the record, this particular God is a radio host, not a deity.
Tonight’s show is scheduled to be devoted, in part, to the newest Jurassic Park movie, with guests Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, Bryce Dallas Howard, and others.
David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.