RERUN RETURN: Beginning tonight, the cult classic 1974-75 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker joins the MeTV Sunday night lineup. The one-hour series premiere, about a modern Jack the Ripper, opens the series – and if you need a reason to sample it, here’s one. One of the writers on this series was a young David Chase, decades before he went on to create The Sopranos. Darren McGavin stars in this journalistic precursor to The X-Files.

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THIS IS US MARATHON By David Bianculli

NBC’s This Is Us was one of fall TV’s few successes for broadcast television, and today USA Network presents a marathon of all the episodes presented to date – a lengthy marathon that begins at 1 p.m. ET and runs through prime time.

2017

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NFL FOOTBALL WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

For postseason NFL contests, this is the weekend for wild-card games, when the teams that have squeaked their way into the playoffs try to earn the chance to extend their seasons even more, by beating the teams with slightly better records or division positioning. Today at 4:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, in the first postseason game of 2017, the 12-4 Oakland Raiders visit the 9-7 Houston Texans (pictured). Then, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, the 9-7 Detroit Lions visit the 10-5-1 Seattle Seahawks. The two other wi

2017

Jan

BRIGHT LIGHTS By David Bianculli

Alexis Bloom and actor Fisher Stevens directed this dual biography of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, an exploration of their complicated, yet very loving, mother-daughter dynamic. This movie toured the festival circuit in 2016, and was picked up by HBO for an intended telecast this March – but after the sudden, almost simultaneous deaths of Fisher and then her mother, HBO has moved up this dual biography to tonight. Both actresses attained stardom as teenagers – Reynolds in Singi

2017

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BOB HOPE-BING CROSBY ROAD PICTURES By David Bianculli

Tonight TCM salutes the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road pictures – a delightful trip that begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1940’s The Road to Singapore, followed by 1941’s The Road to Zanzibar at 9:45 p.m. ET and 1942’s The Road to Morocco at 11:30 p.m. ET. All three films co-star Dorothy Lamour, and they’re followed, at 1 a.m. ET, by two quick editions of TCM’s Carson on TCM, showcasing vintage interview segments from NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson &nd

2017

Jan

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests, in this delayed Christmas show, include Will Smith, Helen Mirren and Martin Freeman – who swap stories about being celebrities in public rest rooms. Only on The Graham Norton Show…

2017

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DOUBLE REQUIEM: HBO'S ‘BRIGHT LIGHTS’ SHINES UPON DEBBIE REYNOLDS, CARRIE FISHER By Ed Bark

It’s highly unfortunate, to say the least, that startling events prompted HBO to move up the premiere of this intimate documentary. It’s also commendable to do so...

2017

Jan

THE TOUCHING STORY OF THE LOVE OF A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN ‘BRIGHT LIGHTS’ By David Hinckley

It’s hard to imagine a sweeter and more fitting eulogy for Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds than Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...

2017

Jan

NETFLIX AND LEAR OFFER A NEW TAKE ON 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' By David Hinckley

Rebooted old shows are as common as Geico ads on television these days, but everyone involved with the new Netflix version of One Day at a Time insists it has almost nothing to do with the decades-old classic of the same title. Well, except Norman Lear...

2017

Jan

NETFLIX HITS A SWEET (AND SPICY) SPOT WITH HISPANIC VERSION OF 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' By Ed Bark

Skepticism prevailed when Norman Lear let it be known, at a summer 2015 Television Critics Association panel, that “we’re talking about doing a Latina version of One Day At a Time. That could happen.” Yeah, like that was gonna happen...

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