What a day for politics. When former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill said “All politics is local,” even he couldn’t have imagined anything as dramatic as the last evening, and this current morning, of Georgia voting returns – with its runoff election results poised to cause a seismic shift in the Senate. Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock defeated the incumbent to win one Georgia Senate seat, and Jon Ossoff seems to have won enough votes to claim the other state

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MYSTERY MOVIE MARATHON By David Bianculli

This is a very unofficial, unwieldly and distinctly dissimilar collection of movies shown tonight on TCM – but they’re all very, very entertaining mystery movies, albeit of very different types and tones. Death on the Nile from 1978, and Evil Under the Sun from 1982, are star-studded adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. They start things off at 8 p.m. ET. Then, at 12:45 a.m. ET, comes 1973’s yacht-set The Last of Sheila (pictured), written n

2021

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NAME THAT TUNE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Name That Tune, as a radio quiz show featuring contestants vying to identify songs while hearing fewer notes, premiered on NBC Radio in 1952, and came to TV the following year. It survived on TV throughout the 1950s, then was revived in the 1970s and the Eighties. VH1 even tried a visual version, Name That Video, in 2001. But now, 20 years after that attempt, Fox launches another reboot. This one is audio only, back to the original title of Name That Tun

2021

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'ROLLING STONE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE' TELLS THE STORY OF A CULTURAL FORCE By David Hinckley

We all know what has happened to traditional print journalism over the last few years, none of it encouraging or beneficial, and that makes a dusted-off documentary on Rolling Stone magazine timely to revisit...

2021

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THE HISTORY OF SWEAR WORDS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Nicolas Cage, acting like a sort of foul-mouthed Alistair Cooke, narrates this nonfiction series, each episode of which is devoted to a separate obscene word. There are a few facts that make this etymological excursion interesting, but not enough of a clever approach to make it a truly instructional and entertaining viewing experience. Try out the opening installment on scatology, for example, and see how much it appeals to you. Especially if you don’t know sh*t.

2021

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GEORGIA ELECTION RUNOFF COVERAGE By David Bianculli

I usually really look forward to, and enjoy, TV programs in which I have absolutely no idea, and no confident way of predicting, what will happen next. But with this Georgia dual senatorial runoff, especially after last weekend’s Donald Trump phone recording and last night’s Trump “campaign” appearance, to say it’s going to be an unpredictable viewing experience is to understate the obvious. And for almost precisely half of us, it’ll be show with a devastating

2021

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ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Is it just me, or has this already impressive and inventive musical drama gotten even more poignant and potent in its post-COVID return? Okay, so it could just be me. But I don’t think so. Zoey, played so perfectly and artfully by Jane Levy, returns for Season 2 trying to deal with her own drama, trauma, and isolation – and almost everyone around her is dealing with challenging problems of his or her own. I’d forgotten how much this series, with its musical int

2021

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THIS IS US By David Bianculli

Four episodes of this series’ Season 5 were broadcast last fall, but there hasn’t been a new installment of This Is Us since last November. But here, finally, is the first fresh outing of 2021, called “A Long Road Home.” And it has been, for all of us watching all of Us.

2021

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A TRIUMPHANT RETURN FOR 'ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST' By Mike Hughes

To savor Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist – which starts its second season Tuesday – you must buy into one tiny little premise. OK, it's actually a huge premise...

2021

Jan

A COMPLEX MURDER MYSTERY, 'TRACES,' COMES TO BRITBOX By David Hinckley

If you can live with a major coincidence in the setup, the British drama Traces grows into a nicely tense murder mystery...

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