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2019
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Madeline Wise continues her supporting role this season as Pete Holmes’ new girlfriend – and in tonight’s episode, she gets even more involved in his personal life. And in his professional career path…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
 
 
In 2003, Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres starred in a wonderful animated film about one fish looking for another. In 2016, they reteamed for an equally delightful sequel, only this time the billing was reversed. Tonight, on this Super Bowl Eve in 2019, Freeform presents them both, as a wonderful, waterlogged twin bill. Or, in this case, gill.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
 
 
The episode presented tonight, in this new Dynasties nature series from abroad, is all about tigers. We’ve already had an episode devoted to lions. So what, you ask, is likely to follow lions and tigers? That’s easy: In order, it’s got to be: Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, oh my.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
 
 
Just before Michael Crichton came along and starting concocting really neat fantasies involving science and/or medicine – as in Jurassic Park, the original Westworld and the TV series ER – this movie came along in 1966, imagining that to save the life of a critically ill scientist, his colleagues would shrink a team and its submersible craft down to microscopic size and inject them into his bloodstream, for a life-saving mission through his internal bodily systems. This movie has got
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
 
 
PASADENA, CA – It isn’t the polar vortex that caused the TV Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour to start nearly four weeks later than usual in Pasadena...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
 
 
There’s nothing fancy about The ABC Murders, which arrives Friday on Amazon Prime. It’s just a bloody good murder mystery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
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MINISERIES PREMIERE: Today Amazon Prime Video presents the latest labor of Hercule – Hercule Poirot, the observant detective famous from a series of mystery novels written by genre grande dame Agatha Christie. David Suchet commandeered the role of Poirot by playing him, over a long stretch of years, in a PBS series covering every Poirot story in the canon. The last of those, though, was five years ago, and now it’s time for a new Poirot, played – and played very well – by
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Actress Natasha Lyonne and comedian Amy Poehler teamed with Sleeping with Other People writer Leslye Headland to create this new limited series, a sort of slightly darker spin on Groundhog Day. Lyonne, familiar as Nicky in Orange Is the New Black (and, long before that, as Opal in Pee-Wee’s Playhouse), plays Nadia, a young New York single woman – who could have been a girl from Girls – who wakes to the sound of Nilsson’s “Gotta Get Up” and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
 
 
Last week, Drunk History devoted a segment to Mary Shelley and the odd and somewhat debauchery-fueled circumstances of the creation of her Frankenstein novel. Tonight, Showtime presents the 2017 movie drama inspired by that same story. Or inspired, I guess, by the same inspiration for that same story. And this time, Mary Shelley is played by Elle Fanning, with Tom Sturridge as Lord Byron and Douglas Booth as Percy Shelley. On Drunk History, those roles were played, respectively, by Evan Rachel W
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
 
 
Bill Maher’s scheduled guests tonight include politicians (New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Texas Rep. Will Hurd), journalists (Peter Hamby and columnist Jennifer Rubin), and one distinguished historian (Jon Meacham). Have at it, folks. We seem to be headed for the strong possibility of another government shutdown. Compare and contrast…