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1999: HBO DEBUTS 'THE SOPRANOS' By TV WW

On this day in 1999, HBO introduced its second dramatic series, The Sopranos...

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'ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL' ON PBS IS THE BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL BALM WE ALL NEED By David Hinckley

The PBS revival of All Creatures Great and Small is so visually delightful that you could almost watch it with the sound off...

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THE LIFE AND TROUBLED TIMES OF 'TIGER' WOODS By David Hinckley

We love an unexpected success story, we're riveted by a downfall-of-the-mighty story, and there's nothing as heartwarming as a good resurrection tale...

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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...

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NFL PLAYOFFS: WILD CARD WILD WEEKEND By David Bianculli

Yesterday, one of the three wild card playoff games was a nail-biter to the end: the Indianapolis Colts-Buffalo Bills game, which the Bills emerged victoriously 27-24 after a long series of challenges and twists and turns. Today, once again, three games are played in a rare post-season tripleheader – but today, you may have to go farther afield to find the right field, or, at least, the right network. The day’s opening game at 1 p.m. ET, for example, between the 11-5 Baltimore Ravens

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60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi was one of the politicians targeted, and ushered to safety, when a mob egged on by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. Four days later, she’s a featured interview on 60 Minutes, discussing the deadly assault, and what she thinks should happen next to the still-current occupant of the White House, with Lesley Stahl. When Stahl last interviewed Trump for 60 Minutes, he abruptly and prematurely ended the interview and walked out. Pel

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THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE CRAZIEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is an expanded one-hour special, providing a behind-the-scenes and on-the-scene look at this week’s astounding political events in and around Washington, D.C. – the Georgia runoff election, the shift of power in the Senate, the storming of the Capitol by a destructive and deadly mob sent there at the urging of Donald Trump, and the subsequent calls for another Impeachment, or the invocation of the 25th Amendment, by Democrats and even some Republicans

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AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Each season of this adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel has had a different showrunner – and, basically, a different approach in tone. Season 3 begins tonight, and it, too, has different people in charge, led by new showrunner Charles H. Eglee. If that name’s not familiar, he has a long, impressive resume, starting as a writer on St. Elsewhere and Moonlighting, a long stint working with Steven Bochco on such shows as L.A. Law, NYPD Blue

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ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: James Herriot’s beloved books about the people and pets he met as a veterinarian in Yorkshire in the 1930s were adapted into a very successful miniseries once before, starring Christopher Timothy as Herriot, and co-starring Robert Hardy and Peter Davison. But that was back in 1978, several TV lifetimes ago (shortly after I started as a TV critic – that long ago). Here comes a new version, which already has been renewed for a second season, and which stars n

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