SERIES PREMIERE: Here’s an exotic new series worth a sample. It’s a new Brazilian series, produced by Netflix and filmed in Brazil, telling of a future in which people are given the opportunity to cross from a land of devastation into a land of plenty. It’s an arduous journey, however, that results in failure for 97 percent of those who attempt it. Bianca Comparato stars.

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MICHAEL CHE MATTERS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: In this new Netflix special – one of three new Netflix offerings unveiled today – the co-anchor of the current “Weekend Update” news satire on NBC’s Saturday Night Live gets to step out from behind his fake news desk (well, the desk is real; only the news is fake) and deliver a one-man standup routine. And an uncensored one at that.

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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

How time flies. This is the golden anniversary of this 1966 animated holiday special, starring Boris Karloff as both the narrator and the Grinch. It’s co-directed by Chuck Jones, who created Wile E. Coyote and developed Bugs Bunny, and the voice of Cindy Lou Who is provided by June Foray, who also provided the classic voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel on Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.

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FROSTY THE SNOWMAN By David Bianculli

And this other early holiday special will turn 50 in 2019, so it’s a major oldie too (as am I, because I saw it back in 1969). Jimmy Durante narrates. And Frosty, long before Olaf, is the snowman with a mission.

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KIRK IS IN STARS HOLLOW, TOO, FOR THE RETURN OF 'GILMORE GIRLS' By David Hinckley

Sean Gunn was all-in for the Gilmore Girls reunion, which doesn’t mean there weren’t a few anxious moments when it actually happened...

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OK, HERE WE GO AGAIN By Eric Gould

We’re big fans of the the band OK Go who have really taken the idea of music videos into what we might all agree is the realm of fine art. For the past few years, they have been the high priests of the single take, fusing mind-boggling choreographed performance and colorful op-art into 4 minute masterwork achievement...

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PBS’S ‘NATIONAL PARK SYMPHONY’ TAKES USUAL PLEDGE DRIVES INTO BEAUTIFUL NEW TERRITORY. LITERALLY. By Tom Brinkmoeller

There are many awful necessities in life; among them are: Cutting grass, raking leaves, shoveling snow and enduring PBS pledge drives... But there’s an exception to that rule coming soon that will envelope most of the PBS universe...

2016

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MACY'S 90TH THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE By David Bianculli

Of the TV parade coverage today, this one, on NBC, is the most tenured and traditional – and today’s the day when those particular attributes should count for something. So watch as Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker work their way through the 90th edition of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and recount the history that goes all the way back to the first. And goes back, in fact, to a Felix the Cat balloon, which will be represented, in modernized form, in today’s pa

2016

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THE SIMPSONS 600 MARATHON By David Bianculli

Back in 2014, FX’s sister network FXX put itself on the map by presenting a marathon of all 552 episodes then produced of Fox’s The Simpsons – a 12-day marathon that set records as the longest TV marathon in history. Well, history marches on, as does The Simpsons. Today at noon ET, FXX presents a new compilation of Simpsons episodes, a mega-marathon that now covers 600 episodes, presented over 300 hours, represents 27 seasons, and will take 13 days to complete, finishing up at

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PRO FOOTBALL: WASHINGTON REDSKINS VS. DALLAS COWBOYS By David Bianculli

Here’s another long-standing Thanksgiving Day tradition: the Dallas Cowboys, once called America’s Team, playing on Turkey Day. This time they face the Washington Redskins – and I wonder how much thought the NFL gave in putting together this particular holiday game schedule. On a day we’re supposed to be recalling and revering the first Thanksgiving and all it represents, are the Cowboys facing an appropriate opponent? It’s a somewhat uncomfortable thought, whether

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