Last week, John Oliver explained Brexit, and what options are available to the British in the coming month, more clearly and incisively than any legitimate news program. That’s one reason to watch Last Week Tonight loyally and closely. Another reason? John Oliver remains, week in and week out, one of the funniest comics on television – and last week, he came back refreshed for a new season of current events deconstruction.

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WHISKEY CAVALIER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: It’s common, or used to be, for the networks to launch a new TV series by taking advantage of the giant audience gathered to watch the Super Bowl. ABC’s The Wonder Years started that way, and so did NBC’s The A-Team. But after the Oscars? That’s a new one. Yet tonight, after ABC’s coverage of the Academy Awards is over, the network provides this late-night sneak preview of its newest TV series. Whiskey Cavalier stars Scott Foley in the title r

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O.G. By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This film, starring Jeffrey Wright of HBO’s Westworld, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, after which the network happily snapped it up for TV distribution, giving one of its prominent stars another firmament in which to shine. In this drama, Wright plays Louis, a maximum-security inmate about to be released after 24 years in prison, who spends his last days in prison befriending a new inmate named Beecher (Theothus Carter). The last time HBO presented a prison drama f

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A STAR IS BORN & A STAR IS BORN By David Bianculli

Tonight, in a way, TCM presents Stars Are Born, because it’s mounting a double feature of versions of the movie that, in its latest incarnation, is up for some Oscars tomorrow night. The original, 1937 version of A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March (and with a screenplay co-written by Dorothy Parker!), is televised at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 10 p.m. ET by the 1954 Judy Garland/James Mason version (pictured).

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PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: Tonight on Dynasties, it’s my favorite part of these Planet Earth nature documentaries: an entire episode devoted to “The Making Of.” Every week so far, I’ve marveled at the photography and wondered, “How the hell did the filmmakers get that?” Tonight, they tell me… For a full review of tonight's episode, see Alec Strachan's TV That Matters.

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A WILDLIFE FILMMAKER? THESE ARE THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE ‘DYNASTIES’ By Alex Strachan

Dynasties was always going to be different from earlier David Attenborough spectacles like Planet Earth and Blue Planet...

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'AMERICAN MASTERS' CHARTS CHARLEY PRIDE'S IMPROBABLE ROUTE TO COUNTRY MUSIC STAR By David Hinckley

A new documentary on country singer Charley Pride captures some of the surreal world in which he has earned his remarkable success...

2019

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'WORKIN' MOMS,' STREAMING ON NETFLIX, FEELS FAMILIAR By David Hinckley

Take Sex and the City, marry those ladies off, give ‘em a few rugrats and you might get something a little like Workin’ Moms...

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THE GREAT BEAST THAT IS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: This new eight-part documentary series, hosted by former House star and Obama White House employee Kal Penn, is the latest project from Adam McKay, who’s up for several Oscar awards this weekend for his Dick Cheney movie Vice. (He’s already won for Best Adapted Screenplay for his 2015 film The Big Short, which used humor to explain the origins and intricacies of the subprime crisis.) In The Great Beast, he comes to TV and uses each of eight episodes to ex

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PADDLETON By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Ever since Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray Romano has been on a stealth mission, and a very successful one, to prove his talents extend beyond the standard sitcom. In the last 10 years, he’s played midlife-crisis sufferer Joe Tranelli on TNT’s Men of a Certain Age, on-the-spectrum photographer Hank Rizzoli on NBC’s Parenthood, out-of-his-element music bigwig Zak Yankovich on HBO’s Vinyl and, most recently, Hollywood player Rick Moreweather on Epix’s Get

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