This month, Peacock is running the second season of Poker Face, a mystery show that owes a lot to Columbo, the hit series that ran from 1971 to 1978. Columbo has had a big resurgence of popularity in ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
57 years later, the formula still works because it isn’t a formula, it’s a dance. A strange, lopsided, charmingly relentless ...
The thing about episodes of "Columbo" is that they're kind of like slices of pizza: even when they're not that great, they're still pretty wonderful. There really aren't any god-awful episodes of ...
We're in a new golden age of television, but between rubbery pirates, ruthless family succession struggles, and dark superhero romps, nothing compares to Columbo, right? Peter Falk's cigar-chomping ...
Few TV show characters have the shelf-life that Peter Falk’s Detective Columbo had from 1968 into the onset of the 21st-century. The fictional detective, who debuted in the early 1960s, was a ...
Sep. 5—BRISTOL — "Prescription: Murder," based on the TV series "Columbo," opens Sept. 13 at the Bristol Opera House for a two-weekend run. The theatrical origin story for the TV series "Columbo," ...
This is FRESH AIR. Rian Johnson, the writer-director who went from the blockbuster "The Last Jedi" to the Agatha Christie-style mystery comedies "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion" has created his first TV ...