Paul Giamatti stars in “Barney’s Version,” the adaptation of the 1997 novel by the late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, who is probably best known in this country for the movie “The Apprenticeship ...

If ever a television series captured the gritty essence of police work, it wasn’t “Dragnet,” with its just-the-facts dispassion, or “Hill Street Blues,” with its urban blight, or any version of “Law & ...