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2020
Oct
11
 
 
Somehow, during the pandemic, The Circus and its correspondents manage to travel just enough, and to just enough of the right people and places, to give us an inside view of politics as this presidential campaign keeps on veering in unexpected directions. And what a week this was, with the president hospitalized, and his doctors being much less than forthcoming regarding key details of his test results for COVID-19, whether positive or negative. Will this new edition of 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
11
 
 
This is Episode 9, which means next week will bring the season finale. And this week, some unlikely alliances continue to spread new evil, while even those perpetrators are not immune to danger themselves.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
11
 
 
Last week, this new nonfiction miniseries from CNN premiered with an episode devoted to Michelle Obama – which proved, as expected, to be quite a popular ratings draw. Tonight, another powerful choice, and significant First Lady, anchors Installment 2: This hour examines the life, policies and legacy of Jackie Kennedy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
11
 
 
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And on this Season 4 miniseries episode of FX’s Fargo, where there’s fire, there’s a war…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
11
 
 
Tonight’s second installment of this very entertaining documentary about the groundbreaking Los Angeles comedy club includes reminiscences from lots of comics, from Tim Allen (who tells of how a horrid booking at a sales convention inspired his eventual “tool time” routine) and Bill Burr (pictured) – who just hosted Saturday Night Live last night.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
11
 
 
The opening for the new season of Fear the Walking Dead will remind anyone who might have forgotten that yes, folks, this is a show built on a comic book...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
10
 
 
On this day in 1971, the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs debuted on Britian's ITV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
10
 
 
How time crawls. This is the first anniversary of our daily TVWW video offshoot, Best TV Tomorrow, in which I give a casual visual shout-out to the very best single offering on TV the next day, whether on broadcast, cable or streaming TV. The subject of the inaugural report, keyed to Oct. 10, 2019, was NBC’s The Good Place. A year later, you can see what we recommend, then stay tuned to compare it to our video a year ago, just by watching yesterday's Best TV Tomorrow for today –
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
10
 
 
The New Twilight Zone is the title under which Decades is presenting this weekend’s marathon – but back when CBS mounted this first revival reboot of Rod Serling’s classic anthology series, back in 1985, it was called, simply, The Twilight Zone (as is the current CBS All Access version). Two episodes, in particular, should be watched for, and watched, from today’s crop. The series premiere, shown at noon ET, includes the segment Shatterday,which stars
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
10
 
 
This 2019 movie version of the super-long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway musical was slammed mercilessly when it was released – but somehow, nine months into this pandemic, I’m sort of looking forward to seeing it. (And I just checked my nerd book social calendar, and Hey! I’m going to home tonight anyway! The cast, at least, sounds furry interesting: Performers include Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella, James Corden as Bustofer Jones, Judy Dench as Old Deuteronomy, Rebel Wil