It takes a lot to fill the ballroom for extra early morning session on the 11th day of the TV Critics Press Association winter press tour. But the guest was the top vote-getter in 2016 Presidential election...

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'LITTLE AMERICA' BRINGS TOUCHING IMMIGRANT STORIES TO APPLE PLUS By David Hinckley

It's unfair to judge a television show against its source material. It's hard not to do that with Little America, an eight-episode docudrama series that launches Friday on Apple+...

2020

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LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR By David Bianculli

I was able to see, and approve of and recommend, last week’s premiere episode in advance, but not tonight’s second episode. So I’ll be watching with interest, just as I hope you’ll be – since this new NBC series is developed by executive producers Mark Bianculli and VJ Boyd. One of them is my son. And it probably doesn’t take a detective of Lincoln Rhyme’s intellect to determine which…

2020

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 18 premiere of Bill Maher’s live, live-wire show. It’s the first time in a long while he’s been able to comment on current events – and he’s returning at a time when the current has amped up from 110 to 220 volts. His show’s guest bookers haven’t wasted their time off: The opening guest for this 2020 opener is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who’s been quite busy while Maher has been on break. Also scheduled t

2020

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THE GOOD PLACE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode – one of the last for this superbly quirky and brainy comedy series – involves the gang’s latest improvised audible play, one final desperate attempt to try to save the planet (or, more to the point, the humans inhabiting it). The episode’s title is called “Mondays, Am I Right?,” and it’s bound to be this evening’s very best TV offering. Thursdays, Am I Right?

2020

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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW By David Bianculli

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, last night’s exclusive one-hour interview with Rudy Giuliani colleague Lev Parnas was an important, newsmaking piece of television – answering some questions, and posing many more, just as the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is about to begin in the U.S. Senate. Tonight: Part 2 of Maddow’s interview with Parnas. It’s likely she and her show led with the most incendiary information last night, but any addition

2020

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THE LAST DAYS OF RICHARD PRYOR By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: The title of this ABC special is somewhat misleading, and happily so. That’s because Richard Pryor died only a few years into this current century, so the new generation of college students may have little idea of the groundbreaking standup comic’s impact and triumphs. Yes, this special will show how he died, but will spend more time examining how he lived. And, through his unique comic prism, how he saw the world.

2020

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EVIL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode goes back to the series premiere, when we first met Katja Herbers’ Kristen, as well as the accused murderer who attacked her as she was interrogating him in prison. In tonight’s show, that killer is released… and that’s not the only evil newly set free upon the world.

2020

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'FOUR SEASONS IN HAVANA,' A HIDDEN GEM ON NETFLIX, WELL WORTH THE TIME TO FIND By Alex Strachan

Sometimes the best gems on Netflix are the ones you never hear about...I found myself utterly entranced by a four-part mystery set in present-day Havana, Cuba...

2020

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GRACE AND FRANKIE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 6 for this Netflix series – a long stretch for that streaming service, with one more season of Grace and Frankie in the wings down the road – and Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin still are going strong. So are the guest stars and supporting players, including stalwarts Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, and last season’s addition, Peter Gallagher. This season, he’ll be joined by Mary Steenburgen, the woman playing his wife on NBC’s&n

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