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10:09

< A top-10 list can't contain all the great TV of 2025

David Bianculli, is taking a look back at the year in television. But he says he's not doing a Top 10 list because there's been way too much good TV to limit to just 10 titles. And he's not doing a best of the year list because he says it's impossible to have seen everything, but he's seen a lot.

Review
52:30

Remembering Rob Reiner, a director who spanned genres

Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their home on Sunday, and their son was arrested on suspicion of murder. Today we're going to listen back to the interview I recorded with Rob Reiner in September. But first our TV critic, remembers Reiner's contributions to TV and film.

Interview
10:08

'The Beatles Anthology' remasters the Fab Four — with great results

ABC presented an eight-part documentary series called "The Beatles Anthology," telling the history of the band and its music in the first and only fully authorized TV biography - the only one, that is, until now. Thirty years later, "The Beatles Anthology" is back, with the sound and images restored and with a brand-new ninth episode added at the end. Disney+ is presenting the newly refurbished series beginning tonight, with three episodes unveiled nightly. Our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

Review

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