SEASON PREMIERE: Here’s a star-studded, loopy take on the creation of the Frankenstein story: Evan Rachel Wood plays author Mary Shelley, Seth Rogen plays her creation Victor Frankenstein, and Will Ferrell plays his creation, Frankenstein’s monster. Also appearing: Elijah Wood as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley’s poet husband, and Jack McBrayer as Lord Byron.

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THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON By David Bianculli

When Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon last year about his plans to stage a limited-run version of his hit musical, and returning to the title role, to benefit the people and arts of Puerto Rico, Fallon pledged his support. Tonight, on Tonight, it arrives in a big way. To benefit the island still recovering from 2017’s Hurricane Maria, The Tonight Show televises this special episode direct from Puerto Rico. Fallon joins Miranda in a one-time only versi

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THE CW'S 'ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO' CRASH LANDS ALONG WITH ITS EXTRATERRESTRIALS By Ed Bark

The overriding – or more to the point, the only – reason to visit Roswell, New Mexico is its UFO phooey. Once is more than enough...

2019

Jan

'THE PASSAGE' GIVES FOX A SCI-FI CONTENDER WITH HEART TO SPARE By Ed Bark

A generation removed from Saved By the Bell, former teen heartthrob Mark-Paul Gosselaar, now 44, is acting with kids again. Actually, it’s just one kid. But what a kid...

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THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Almost every decade, television finds a way to reinvent and reinvigorate the vampire genre. Movies did, too, and started the ball rolling initially with 1922’s Nosferatu and 1931’s Dracula. That latter film starred Bela Lugosi as the sinister Count, an image that more or less held true until Christopher Lee introduced a more sensual vampire in 1958’s British version of Dracula. But think of what TV has done over the years, led by the 1966 daytime ABC soap opera

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INDEPENDENT LENS: "RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE" By David Bianculli

In the movie The Princess Bride (one of my favorites, by the way), traversing a particularly ominous swamp meant risking contact with the R.O.U.S. – a calm acronym for the very frightening idea of giant rats, otherwise known as Rodents of Unusual Size. Well, now a species of R.O.U.S. has made its way from the jungles and rivers of South America to the backwaters and bayous of Louisiana. They’re giant rats, not beavers, and they’re 20 pounds each, multiplying like crazy, gobblin

2019

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'TRUE DETECTIVE' FANS HAVE NO NEED TO FEAR SEASON 3 By David Hinckley

Hey, Marvel’s Iron Man did it – rebounded from one terrible movie to recapture much of its original magic the next time out. Now HBO’s True Detective does it...

2019

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THE FUTURE OF THE MONARCHY IS TESTED ON 'VICTORIA' By David Hinckley

It turns out that Queen Victoria took the French revolution quite personally, so it’s an uncharacteristically nervous monarch who’s waiting for us as the third season of the PBS hit Victoria premieres...

2019

Jan

AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF: LOS ANGELES CHARGERS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS By David Bianculli

These two teams haven’t met in the postseason in 11 years – but the last time they did, the same quarterbacks were at the helm who will be running plays today: Tom Brady for the New England Patriots and Philip Rivers for the former San Diego, now Los Angeles, Chargers. Over their long careers, Brady has won five Super Bowls and four Super Bowl MVPs, while Rivers has yet to win the big game. So though the personnel for the teams is quite different than when these two last faced in the

2019

Jan

NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES VS. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS By David Bianculli

But hey… Drew Brees, who quarterbacks the New Orleans Saints, is 39. Today they face the Philadelphia Eagles and 29-year-old QB Nick Foles, who is eight years younger than any other QB starting in today’s divisional playoff games. Yet maybe with age, comes experience: when the Saints faced the Eagles earlier this season, the Saints trounced them 48-7. But don’t expect that to happen again. The Eagles, winners of last year’s Super Bowl, got into the playoffs this year by

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