Laurel and Hardy month continues on TCM tonight, and prime time this evening presents another solid-gold double feature. Starting things off at 8 p.m. ET is 1937’s Way Out West, in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (pictured) are ordered to deliver the deed of a gold mine to the daughter of a recently deceased prospector. Then, at 9:30 p.m. ET, comes 1938’s Block-Heads, in which Stan returns to the home front, and to best friend Ollie, after 20 years at war &ndas

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PBS' 'FRONTLINE' POSES TROUBLING QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUTH-TELLING AND RESPONSIBILITY IN 'RETURN FROM ISIS' By Alex Strachan

In trying times, empathy can be in short supply...

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EXPLORING THE LIFE OF OLYMPIAN TOMMIE SMITH AND HIS HISTORIC PROTEST: 'WITH DRAWN ARMS' By David Hinckley

A good documentary can be both troubling and hopeful, and that describes With Drawn Arms, a film about the life of Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith...

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1976: ABC DEBUTS THE FIRST 'BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL' By TV WW

This day in 1976 marked the first broadcast of an occasional special ABC presentation, The Barbara Walters Special...

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1992: ABC PRESENTS 'CHARLES AND DIANA: UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER' By TV WW

This day in 1992 marked the premiere of the telemovie Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After, a mere four days after Prime Minister John Major announced the "amicable separation" of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the British House of Commons...

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A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

This 1965 Peanuts holiday special, the first and still champion, used to be shown every year on network television, as befitting its status as a true TV Christmas cartoon classic. But times have changed. Through today, A Charlie Brown Christmas can be seen free on Apple TV+, if you have an Apple ID for another device. But also, today only, PBS and PBS Kids are showing this charming, perfect special, so you and your family can enjoy it the old-fashioned way. And while I may ha

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TOM PETTY: I WON'T BACK DOWN By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES: Three new Tom Petty-related documentaries are unveiled tonight on Reelz, starting at 8 p.m. ET with the one I’m most eagerly anticipating and recommending: Tom Petty: I Won’t Back Down. That’s followed by two series premieres with installments devoted to Petty, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Tom Petty and Life, Death & Money, which looks at the estate he left behind. But for me, who had a chance to see Tom Petty with his newl

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SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

I thought I was going crazy, watching the opening credits last week for the Season 11 premiere of Shameless – because the show had gone to great lengths to recreate the sequence shot for shot, but updating it to reflect the passage of time and the aging of the actors and characters. You can watch that sequence again tonight – then stay tuned as the Gallagher family gets behind patriarch William H. Macy’s plan to de-gentrify their Chicago neighborhood.

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YOUR HONOR By David Bianculli

Episode 1, from last week, set up this show’s blood-curdling “What if?” – establishing Bryan Cranston as an empathic New Orleans judge whose son commits a hit-and-run, the victim of which is the teen son of the city’s most powerful and feared crime boss. If he did the right thing and turned in his son, which the judge was doing until he learned the identity of the young man his son had accidentally killed, the vengeful mobster surely would have the judge’s son

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DESUS & MERO By David Bianculli

Podcast stars Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, in their very few seasons as co-hosts of their freewheeling Showtime talk show, has amassed an impressive array of guests to talk about popular culture, politics, and lots of other topics. Fellow Bronx resident and native Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was featured in the pilot, and since then, Desus & Mero has featured actors (Don Cheadle, Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, Amy Poehler), musicians (John Legend, 2 Chainz, Com

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