In a new episode called “Splitsville,” Robin wants to break up with Nick, but doesn’t want to go through the drama that is likely to accompany it. So it’s Barney to the rescue – and, no doubt, with an ulterior motive.

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OLIVER STONE'S UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Stone and American University history professor Peter Kuznick, co-authors of a book of the same name as this series, launch a 10-part series offering what they say is a different look at American history. Don’t expect anything revolutionary, or at least Revolutionary: the episode presents its ideas chronologically, and begins tonight by looking at the 1930s. So if you’re looking at the truth about the ride of Paul Revere, I fear you must look elsewhere.

2012

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WITNESS By David Bianculli

How weird is it that film director and screenwriter Oliver Stone has two new nonfiction TV series on, at competing cable networks, the same night each week? But he does. Stone’s Witness presents a new installment this week, called Libya. Last year’s overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi is covered by photojournalist Michael Christopher Brown, who’s covering a conflict so dangerous it claimed the lives of some of Brown’s colleagues.

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CASTLE By David Bianculli

C. Thomas Howell guest stars in tonight’s new episode, revolving around a murdered rock star. As Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic) are investigating, a documentary film crew that was photographing the band keeps its cameras rolling – trained not just on the remaining band members, but on the investigators as well, giving this episode a faux documentary feel. No one, however, turns the amps up to 11.

2012

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THE COLBERT REPORT By David Bianculli

Here’s one not to miss: a conversation between two very smart, very clean-cut fellows. One is host Stephen Colbert; the other, guest Ken Burns, whose The Dust Bowl documentary is just around the corner.

2012

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1980: ABC LAUNCHES TED KNIGHT'S 'TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1980, ABC debuted the sitcom Too Close for Comfort, a series based on the British show Keep It in the Family...

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ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

With the spell lifted in Storybrooke, time has returned more or less to normal. Which means the city and its inhabitants experience, for the first time in decades, a full moon. Which means Ruby, a.k.a. Red, played by Meghan Ory, has a tough time of it. In this show's imaginative twist on the Red Riding Hood story, she's a werewolf.

2012

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THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

Christina Ricci guest stars tonight, in this new episode, as standup comic who takes to national TV to get something off her chest – namely, her top. She bares herself on live TV, arguing afterward that she had a very good reason. And it’s an argument that becomes one of the firm’s newest cases, with F. Murray Abraham returning in his recurring role of opposing counsel.

2012

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Last week, this show featured another unexpected, emotionally moving death – one that rocks the usually stoic Rick, and has him acting a lot less reserved than usual.

2012

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BOARDWALK EMPIRE By David Bianculli

You’d think James Cromwell would be causing enough trouble on TV these days as the heartless doctor on FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum. But even though he’s a regular there, the actor had enough time to also pop in on last week’s Boardwalk Empire episode, playing the wealthy and imposing Andrew Mellon (James Cromwell) in an episode that, like at least one other prime-time drama last Sunday, featured the sudden death of a beloved supporting character.

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