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2017
Oct
9
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 3 premiere of this DC Comics action series. It began on CBS, where it was an uneasy fit, and moved to sister network CW last year, where other DC Comics adaptations, such as The Flash and Arrow, reside comfortably. This season, Kara (Melissa Benoist) is suffering from her big emotional loss at the end of last season – and decides, this year, to suppress rather than embrace her non-Kryptonian humanity. For a look at the new season, and Chris Wood (Mon-El)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
Stick with this series. Just when it seemed like superhero TV series had run out of steam, FX gave us Legion last season, and now Fox gives us The Gifted – two very smart dramas based on minor characters from the Marvel comics universe. Last week’s premiere episode of The Gifted did a fine job establishing both characters and conflicts – and tonight’s second episode deepens both of those explorations, with an episode as strong on exciting special effects as it is on drama
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
This movie, from 1989, is an exciting psychological thriller, largely set at sea and focused on three isolated characters: a man and his wife, taking a remote ocean voyage to try and heal their marriage, and a literal drifter whom they discover, and rescue, while far, far from land. The drifter is played by Billy Zane, and he turns out to be dangerous. The couple is played by Sam Neill and, in one of her first roles, Nicole Kidman – who is positively captivating here. It’s a very exc
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
If Jennifer Hudson had a hit single every time Blake Shelton told her that winning The Voice UK won’t cut any ice on the US Voice, she’d be ahead of chart-topping career earner Rihanna by now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
The situation with Supergirl’s squeeze is up in the air, so to speak, when her TV show returns to the CW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
Ten-hut. Here comes the last -- and the soapiest -- of this fall’s gung-ho, special ops military dramas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
 
 
The season of the soldier marches on, with the CW’s new Valor offering yet another angle on American fighting forces vs. sneering radical terrorists...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
8
 
 
TCM’s Sunday tribute to Dracula movies continues with, fittingly, 1958’s The Return of Dracula at 8 p.m. ET, which has the Count Every Sunday in October, TCM is paying tribute to Dracula the character – going under a different name – traveling to a small Western town in America, in the late 1950s. A more famous, even more fanciful Dracula Western relocation comes later, at 10:45 p.m. ET, when TCM televises 1966’s Billy the Kid vs. Dracula. And stay tuned after that
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
8
 
 
In this week’s episode, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has a run-in with a customer that doesn’t go well at all – and that accelerates her determination to go into a different line of business. Well, somewhat different….
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
8
 
 
In tonight’s installment, Ray (Liev Schreiber) maintains his tricky, illicit relationship with the young Hollywood star – which becomes an unfamiliar problem when she drags Ray into the spotlight, where he tries never to appear.