DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

CHRISTY SLEWINSKI

Managing Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

Contributors

MONIQUE NAZARETH

NOEL HOLSTON

GERALD JORDAN

DAVID SICILIA

 
 
Welcome to TV We're Watching (yes, another TVWW!), a handy, but by no means comprehensive list of weekly shows we enjoy watching – and that are in rotation right now. (And on our DVRs.)

TV WE'RE WATCHING

  
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Arrested Development
NETFLIX
24/7


Brooklyn DA
CBS
Tuesday
10 PM ET

Family Tree
HBO
Sunday
10:30 PM ET

Longmire
A&E
Monday
10 PM ET

Mad Men
AMC
Sunday
9 PM ET

Maron
IFC
Friday
10 PM ET

Nurse Jackie
Showtime
Sunday
9 PM ET

Real Time with Bill Maher
HBO, Friday
10 PM ET

True Blood
HBO
Sunday
9 PM ET

The Voice
NBC
Mon & Tues
8 PM ET
 
 
2013
Jun
16
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This new season of True Blood is not overseen by series creator Alan Ball, who has left the production – but it continues, and even amplifies, the vamps-as-oppressed-minorities subtext established back when the show premiered. (Check out the opening credits, for that “God hates fangs” roadside sign.) HBO sent out three Season 6 episodes for preview, and they establish a season of persecution” politicians against vampires, watchdogs against werewolves, and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
16
 
 
Face it: Last week’s shocker (which might be summarized safely as “What Sally saw”) was so unsettling that, to me, it instantly vaulted over every other TV stunner this season, including the "Red Wedding" of Game of Thrones. That’s why, when some people were complaining about the current season of Mad Men as being too slow, my inclination was to wait to see, because something big, most likely, was coming. Wow. And now what happens? I have no idea. But I’m there.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
14
 
 
Tonight’s guests include Jonathan Alter and Patrick Kennedy – and with some lines being crossed and others being tapped, there ought to be a lot to discuss this week.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
 
 
Danny Trejo, from Sons of Anarchy and some familiar recent “grindhouse” movies, guest stars as a man Marc Maron meets in AA, and decides to sponsor. Cut to: a guy on the floor, bound and bloody, with a gag in his mouth and a nervous Maron standing over him, trying to intercede.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
26
 
 
SERIES RETURN: Like locusts, Arrested Development showed up for a while, made a lot of noise, then went into invisible hibernation. That was seven years ago, when the Fox comedy series from 2003-06, which won the Best Comedy Emmy one of those years, was canceled way too prematurely. Now, almost incredibly, it lives again, as a 15-part sequel featuring the original cast members in a tag-team structure. The insanity, as before, is overseen by series creator Mitch Hurwitz, who brings his Bluth fami
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
21
 
 
Last night, Maroon 5 sang as part of the Top 10 competition show – not in the competition, just as part of the program. Last night’s show, then, was additive: 10+5.  Tonight’s voting results show is subtractive: 10-2.  But which two?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
19
 
 
If last week’s series premiere didn’t quite win you over, or make it clear what sort of tone and direction Christopher Guest’s TV series was intending to provide, watch tonight’s episode two. By the time it’s over, all will be made clear. And the jokes about The Mikado, and the monkey puppet, are well worth the investment.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Apr
14
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: When this series began, Edie Falco’s character was defined by her addictions. Now, at the start of this season, she’s being redefined by the lack of them. Can Jackie play it straight? Perhaps, and perhaps not. But Edie Falco, by now, has proven she can play just about anything.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

 
 
 
Jean Stapleton: 1923-2013
By David Bianculli
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mad Men: The Twin Within
By Eric Gould
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

 
 
TV WWorth Buying

Emma (2009 BBC Version)

Although Jane Austen's Emma has been done many times for the screen, this one adapts the 19th century novel into a four-part miniseries. A fan-favorite DVD, it follows the classic misadventures of the always witty and sometimes reckless matchmaker. The 2009 BBC version features Romola Garai as Emma and the venerable Michael Gambon as her father.  On sale at Amazon for under $20. –EG