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2017
Feb
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: John Oliver starts his fourth season of focused satirical analysis of the news – and I’ve missed him dearly. Also, his promos (pictured, with Larry David making a cameo) have been funnier, and better written and performed, than any new sitcom this season. And those are just the promos…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
Many broadcast networks routinely use Saturday night to recycle or repeat shows – the better to amortize, my dear. Tonight, Fox does it with the first two hours of 24: Legacy, so if you missed the new series reboot thus far, this will catch you up before Monday’s Episode 3… should you, after seeing these two hours, want to return for Episode 3. And if not, you can save yourself more than 20 hours of television watching, right there. Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
When I don my cap and gown to attend graduation ceremonies as a faculty member each May at Rowan University, part of the fun is hugging the graduating seniors goodbye, and meeting their parents. The look on their eyes, of palpable and giddy relief at having gotten through it all and made it to graduation day, is universal – but I’m talking about the parents, not the students. The students, more usually, are giving off some mixture of excitement and dread, because they know the real w
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
Tonight’s new show features a lineup you won’t see on most other talk shows, if any: It’s led by Annette Bening and Andrew Garfield.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
Earlier this week, TCM started doing something I don’t remember it doing before: Scheduling random movies in alphabetical order. Tonight we’re up to H, and H is for A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 musical classic starring the Beatles, and directed by Richard Lester. But don’t look for Help!, the Beatles’ cinematic follow-up from 1965. It’s not here on the TCM roster – even though, alphabetically, it would fit perfectly. Instead, TCM presents 1950’s Ja
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
According to NBC, tonight’s new edition of Saturday Night Live marks the 17th time that Alec Baldwin has hosted the program. Ed Sheeran is the musical guest – but it’s because of Baldwin, and expectations surrounding his latest lacerating President Trump sketch, that the ratings for tonight’s program are predicted to be huuuuuuge.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
11
 
 
Amazon Prime’s new series The Collection shares an ominous, intriguing intensity with the streaming service’s The Man in the High Castle...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
10
 
 
Georgia Congressman John Lewis made headlines recently by announcing he would not attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, just as a matter of principle...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In this new series about a Paris fashion house trying to build a reputation in postwar WWII, Richard Coyle and Tom Riley star as brothers working together, and sometimes in opposition, to achieve that goal. They’re the stars, but I have more fun watching the other members of this show’s first fashion family. Mamie Gummer, who played Nancy the intrepid lawyer on The Good Wife, is intriguing – and Frances de la Tour, as the matriarch, is a scene-stealer. And I&rs
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
10
 
 
This one-off telemovie sequel to The Office – the Ricky Gervais original British version – has him playing David Brent again. But instead of working at a paper company, this time David is doing a lot of traveling. He’s a traveling salesman for toiletries, condoms and other things, but his real Life on the Road mission has him spending more pension money to, once again, chase his dream of rock stardom by putting together a band, putting on a “tour,” and playing his s