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2016
Feb
12
 
 
What a news week – and Bill Maher will be here to comment on it all, along with NBC foreign correspondent Richard Engel, comedian Margaret Cho, and a roundtable of guests.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
12
 
 

B.B. King would readily tell anyone who asked that he wasn’t the best blues musician of the 20th century. What he wouldn’t say is that by the time he finished his career, he had become one of the century’s most important...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
Mobsters and Martin Scorsese go together like cake and ice cream, chips and dips, Donald Trump and egomania. So the maestro behind Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Casino, Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire invests HBO’s Vinyl with a strong gangster vibe...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 

"...A lot of what we’re writing about in this series is chaos,” Terence Winter says of his new series with HBO, Vinyl...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
Some of the contestants are voted out in tonight’s show – but others get the benefit of the experience of some previous Idol survivors, as previous contestants show up to mentor the new folks. And sing with them, too, as part of this final-season stroll down Idol memory lane. Note that, for this final season, interactive home voting has been removed from the equation for this Top 24 elimination round. Idol wants to do everything it can to stack the deck with someone worthy of bookend
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
Let this serve as notice that all three ABC Thursday dramas are making their midseason returns tonight: Grey’s Anatomy at 8 p.m. ET, Scandal at 9 ET, and How to Get Away with Murder at 10 ET. But I point out Grey’s Anatomy, in particular, because this is an unusually dramatic episode even for this show – and because it marks the TV directorial debut of Denzel Washington. It’s a fitting debut, too, because his career was launched on a TV medical show, way back in the early
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
This latest Democratic presidential debate, the last one scheduled for the month of February, is the second one in which Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate one another solely. After last week’s debate, Sanders won the New Hampshire primary – and this debate, live from Milwaukee, comes as a prelude to Tuesday’s Nevada Democratic caucus and the perhaps pivotal South Carolina primary on Feb. 27. Tonight’s debate is hosted by PBS NewsHour in partnership with Facebook,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
Tonight’s episode is titled “Easter in Bakersfield,” and Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) celebrates the holiday with a family Easter brunch – though, with his family, and his demeanor, “celebrate” is far from the right word. At a family celebration, most of the family isn’t driven from the table. Louie Anderson, as Baskets’ mother, is a standout here.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
11
 
 
This 1933 musical is a staple of my Film Appreciation class at Rowan University – and every year, it bowls over some of my students because of its Depression-era cynicism, humor and, with its stunning between-the-wars climax, topicality. And Ginger Rogers singing the opening number, “We’re in the Money,” in Pig Latin – well, that throws them, too. The Busby Berkeley numbers, especially the finale, are the real reason to watch, but the comedy’s very strong, too
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
10
 
 
We’re at the live portion of American Idol, for the first time in what’s supposed to be the last time. Half of the Top 24 contestants – one of whom will win the final American Idol crown, bookending a series that began with the crowning of Kelly Clarkson – compete tonight.