Last week, Shameless presented the first episode in its series-within-a-series special event called Shameless Hall of Shame. On holiday weekends, the broadcast networks pretty much go on their own holidays – but cable and streaming keep going. Which is good news, and why there’s a fresh episode of Shameless Hall of Shame, in which it pulls highlights from 11 seasons of this wonderful show, focusing on specific characters and relationships. Last Sunday, t

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YOUR HONOR By David Bianculli

Hope Davis was positively frightening as the grieving mother and vengeful mob moll in last week’s episode, causing death with only a whisper. In the proper ear – but still. Also terrific last week: Margo Martindale, as the mother-in-law of Bryan Cranston’s New Orleans judge. And tonight, the presence of both women becomes even more of a factor.

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'ELIZABETH IS MISSING' IS A MYSTERY-FILLED DRAMA WRAPPED AROUND A RATHER FRANK LOOK AT DEMENTIA By David Hinckley

Watching Glenda Jackson perform in anything constitutes a treat. Watching Glenda Jackson perform in Elizabeth Is Missing ... is also hard work.

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2005: CBS LAUNCHES 'LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON' By TV WW

On this day in 2005, actor/comedian Craig Ferguson — best known as office boss Nigel Wick on The Drew Carey Show — took the helm of the CBS late-night series, The Late Late Show...

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1995: CBS INTRODUCES 'CYBILL' By TV WW

This day in 1995 marked the debut of the CBS comedy, Cybill...

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CITY LIGHTS By David Bianculli

Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed and starred in this silent movie classic in 1931 – four years after the sound era was ushered in by The Jazz Singer. By the Thirties, few filmmakers continued to dabble in silent films, but Chaplin, as one of the owners of United Artists, could dictate his own terms, and did. Good thing, because City Lights – which stars Chaplin as his Little Tramp character, and Virginia Cherrill as a blind girl who is touched by his kind

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DOCTOR WHO: REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: This New Year’s special is the one burst of new Doctor Who we’ll see for now, and it’s transitional – marking the final appearance for some of the characters traveling in the TARDIS of late. But not the Doctor: She will continue to be played, at least for a while, by Jodie Whittaker, who begins this special confined in a super-secure Space Prison. Meanwhile, we get to spend some time with John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, a character who first a

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CNN DECADES MARATHON: TELEVISION EPISODES By David Bianculli

I started talking about television on CNN in a documentary miniseries called The Sixties, leading off that nonfiction series by being part of an hour devoted to the decade in television. That first outing isn’t repeated tonight, but the TV-focused openers of the next four CNN decades miniseries are, starting with The Seventies: TV Gets Real at 4 p.m. ET. That’s followed by the two-hour TV episode of The Eighties at 5 p.m. ET, the two-hour TV episode of&n

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1976: NBC INTRODUCES A NEW NETWORK LOGO By TV WW

On this day in 1976, NBC marked its fiftieth year of broadcasting with the introduction of a new network logo...

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