DAVID BIANCULLI

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2020
Oct
29
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Five days before Election Day, CBS is presenting an entertainment special called Every Vote Counts, co-hosted by Kerry Washington, Alicia Keys, and America Ferrera, and featuring appearances and/or performances by Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Coldplay, Jennifer Lopez, and others. The lineup is long because, these days, celebrities can participate easily and, if not phone it in, then literally Zoom it in. But to say Every Vote
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
29
 
 
Tonight’s CBS repeat showing of the 2017 episode of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery gives a callback all the way to the third episode of Season 1 from the original NBC Star Trek series back in 1966. Back then, one of the more colorful early recurring characters was Harry Mudd, a rogue con man played by Roger C. Carmel. The same character was reprised in the animated Star Trek series, and popped up again in Star Trek: Discovery – play
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
29
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This latest season of the German and American spy series about an agent of East Germany during the Cold War takes the story of Martin Rauch (played by Jonas Nay) up to 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall – and, naturally, a climactic event for this impressive series, which began five years ago as Deutschland 83, and continued two years ago with the sequel, Deutschland 86.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
29
 
 
City So Real is epic in size, scope, and ambition...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
29
 
 
Chicago has always been a city where things come together. East and West America. Black and White America, as a destination for the Great Migration of Southern Blacks starting in the 1930s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
28
 
 
Wildfires claim hundreds of thousands of animals — deer, foxes, coyotes, and other wild animals — while a handful of human volunteers do their best to provide respite for desperate, panicked animals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
28
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This sequel to the 1996 movie The Craft returns one cast member from the original film – Fairuza Balk, the gothiest of the girls in that movie’s high-school coven clique. But it tells the story of an all-new group of girls – who, some 25 years after the original teen hex-casters, face shaming and rejection and being outcast by all manner of new dark incantations and enemies. Social media, for instance… The cast of this sequel includes one, and o
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
28
 
 
Today in 2005, Showtime debuted the anthology series, Masters of Horror, which showcased works by some of the horror genre's best-known writers and directors...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
27
 
 
On this day in 1966, CBS debuted the seasonal classic, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
27
 
 
Yes, this is an era of Twitter and TikTok and tiny treatises. Thoughts are expressed in 280 characters. But there's a flip side to that...