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2013
Oct
10
 
 
Tonight’s new episode has Penny (Kaley Cuoco, pictured) seducing Leonard (Johnny Galicki), but only to get him close enough to his laptop to Skype with his mom – who’s played by the delightful recurring guest star Christine Baranski, on loan from another CBS series, The Good Wife. Here’s she’s The Bad Mom – and she’s hilarious.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Sophie Lowe plays Alice in this latest reinvention of the Lewis Carroll original stories and heroine. Alice is grown up now – and, like Dorothy in Return to Oz, is diagnosed with a mental disorder after insisting upon telling tales of visiting a strange land populated by amazing people and creatures. The danger is that this new series, like its parent show Once Upon a Time, will get bogged down by impenetrable subplots and annoying excessive use of Disney fantasy character
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
10
 
 
Only one game is played tonight, the last deciding game of this round before the championship round begins. The Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics meet today at 8 p.m. ET, with the winner advancing to the American League Championship Series.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
10
 
 
This episode pays tribute to Finn – and, thus, the young actor who played him, Cory Monteith. No cause of death is given for Finn, who, in this story line, died a few weeks before. He’s saluted, in character, by current and former cast members, and often, of course, in song. Musical highlights include Lea Michele, Monteith’s real-life girlfriend at the time of his death, singing a song to Finn in her character as Rachel: Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
10
 
 
Last season, Monica Potter delivered an Emmy-worthy performance as Kristina Braverman, dealing with cancer, but the Academy didn’t vote for her. Maybe this year: At the end of last week’s show, Kristina announced her candidacy as mayor. So this season, she’ll be seeking votes actively.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
9
 
 
Want more mutants? The CW’s got ‘em, too, with The Tomorrow People...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
9
 
 
There’s only one postseason baseball game played today: the deciding game in the National League’s Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals series. The Cards, facing elimination, pushed the series to 2-2 in Game 4, so tonight, both teams now face elimination.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
9
 
 
This 1975 Woody Allen movie is one of his early ones, but one which showed his growing sophistication as both a filmmaker and a satirist. He directed, wrote and stars in this spoof of sprawling Russian epics, both literary and cinematic. But he also mixes in a lot of jokes referring to Swedish cinema at the time, because of his love of the movies of director Ingmar Bergman. Hence, both the scythe-carrying Death figure and, in one scene featuring co-stars Diane Keaton and Jessica Harper (pictured
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
9
 
 
Hurricane Sandy, dubbed a “superstorm” because of the destructive power of its storm surge, is examined again in this new Nova installment. It focuses not only on the past, but on the future –specifically, it asks the question, “What’s being done to minimize such damage if, or when, there’s a next time?” Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
9
 
 
Season 11 of this series is set in New Orleans, and tonight’s cooking challenge involves one of the greatest things to come out of New Orleans other than music: gumbo. My advice: Come to this particular show with a note pad… but without an appetite.