Tonight’s episode is called “Room 33” – and that’s where, in this particular episode, John Lowe (Wes Bentley) has a significant psychotic break. I could use a significant break about now myself. But I digress...

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FIVE EASY PIECES By David Bianculli

Another great movie typifying the rebellious attitude of the Sixties, even though it was released in 1970. Like the movie preceding this one on Sundance’s double feature tonight, Easy Rider, it features a young actor named Jack Nicholson. Here, though, Nicholson is the star, not the sidekick, and plays a wealthy rebel and skilled pianist who goes slumming as an oil-rig worker. Well, it’s not really slumming, if the women you encounter, and embrace, are played by Karen Black (pictured

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NOVA’S 'MAKING NORTH AMERICA' MAKES A LITERALLY GLACIAL SUBJECT POP By David Sicilia

Nova is picking up the pace. The subject of this three-part series literally crawls at a glacial pace, but not this series...

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2015 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE By David Bianculli

After the candidates objected to the tone and content of many of the questions posed to them at the CNBC debate last month, tonight’s prime-time debate from Milwaukee, moderated by Neal Cavuto and Gerard Baker, and presented on and by Fox Business Network (in association with The Wall Street Journal, another Rupert Murdoch-owned property), should prove interesting. For one thing, it will be a bit less crowded: both Mike Huckabee and Chris Christie, because of low polling numbers of late, h

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THE MUPPETS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s human guest star is someone I really can’t wait to see interacting with the Muppets, because he’s one of the best deadpan actors of his generation: Jason Bateman. After suffering through the rest of the family Bluth on Arrested Development, dealing with Miss Piggy should be more like a vacation.

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IWO JIMA: FROM COMBAT TO COMRADES By David Bianculli

What a difference 70 years can make. In this new documentary, produced and directed by Carol L. Fleisher and hosted by Ryan Phillippe, the battle of Iwo Jima is recounted – from both sides, as in Ken Burns’ War documentary miniseries, which makes it a more complete and thoughtful kind of history lesson altogether. The footage in this program, including its reunion of veteran soldiers from both sides of the conflict, is provided by both U.S. and Japanese documentary crews – who

2015

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THE GRINDER By David Bianculli

The plot of tonight’s episode hits especially close to home, because I was a tech-crew guy in my theater arts group in high school. Tonight, Stewart (Fred Savage) counsels his son Ethan to stick with the tech crew, as he did when he was Ethan’s age – but Stewart’s TV-star brother Dean (Rob Lowe), of course, is supporting Ethan’s dream of starring in the school play instead.

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DEBT OF HONOR: DISABLED VETERANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY By David Bianculli

This is another PBS special tied to tomorrow’s Veterans Day – and another welcome one, focusing on how we care for our returning war veterans. And how sometimes, disgracefully, we don’t. Check local listings.

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TOUGHEST NEW GIRL ON THE BLOCK By David Hinckley

Let’s make it official. The toughest new chick on the TV block this season is Jaimie Alexander from NBC’s Blindspot...

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Barbara (Erin Richards), who has gone from Jim Gordon’s love interest to flat-out unhinged villainess, plots to attract Jim (Ben McKenzie) to the altar – whether he likes it or not. And in this case, “till death do us part” could mean only a matter of minutes. Is it a dream wedding we’re witnessing – or a nightmare?

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