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2021

Jan

'THE LONG SONG' TELLS OF SLAVERY IN JAMAICA By Mike Hughes

As The Long Song begins Sunday, we're clearly in a distant time and place...

2021

Jan

'RESIDENT ALIEN' HAS LANDED ON SYFY By Mike Hughes

Like most small towns – well, most small towns in TV shows – Patience, Colo., has odd folks who feel like they don't fit in...

2021

Jan

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE SITCOM? By Mike Hughes

TV keeps teetering between two extremes – comedy is king, and comedy is dead...

2021

Jan

WHAT ROLE DID THE PRESIDENT PLAY IN THE RIOT ON THE CAPITOL: 'TRUMP'S AMERICAN CARNAGE' By Mike Hughes

The images rippling through Frontline are familiar enough: a mob storming the Capitol...

2021

Jan

'THE SALISBURY POISONINGS' MAKES ITS DEBUT ON AMC By Mike Hughes

In the news, this was strictly a spy story. A man and his daughter were sitting on a park bench in England when they collapsed...

2021

Jan

LARRY KING: A BROADCASTING LEGEND By Mike Hughes

Even before there was a CNN, the world knew Larry King. Eventually, they would entwine...

2021

Jan

'HOW IT FEELS TO BE FREE' TELLS THE STORIES OF BLACK FEMALE ENTERTAINERS WHO HAVE PAVED THE WAY By Mike Hughes

It was the sort of break a young actress might covet...

2021

Jan

SHE'S KEEPING DAD'S DETECTIVE BUSINESS GOING IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: 'MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE' By Mike Hughes

There are good reasons for dramas to retreat to the past...

2021

Jan

THE REALITY AND HUMOR OF 'ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL' By Mike Hughes

For a decade, TV viewers knew what to expect from PBS. A lush Masterpiece series would settle into Sundays each January and beyond...

2021

Jan

NBC JUST MIGHT BRING BACK MUST-SEE TV WITH TED DANSON AND 'MR. MAYOR' By Mike Hughes

Neil Bremer has all the key qualifications to be mayor. He's tall and silver-haired, with an agreeable countenance and an affable manner. He has everything except, well, plans, proposals, projects, and such...

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Mike Hughes

Mike Hughes remembers watching a TV show in which a man simply played records. He thinks TV is much better now. With Gannett News Service, his television stories went to 100 newspapers; with TV America, they go to considerably fewer, but he still seems happy. Read more at www.mikehughes.tv

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