What a week, and, for Maher, what a lineup: Scheduled guests for tonight’s live show include House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (pictured), who just metaphorically called President Donald Trump an “arsonist” in yesterday’s open letter to Republican congresspeople published in The Washington Post. Also scheduled to appear: Donna Brazile, Claire McCaskill, and Rick Wilson. If those names aren’t familiar, you need to get more familiar with current events

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THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include Felicity Jones and Stephen Merchant, and also makes room, on the same couch, for Armie Hammer and Rob Beckett. And, demonstrating the unique chemistry and unpredictability of Graham Norton’s cozy talk show, at one point it’s the lesser-known Beckett who has everyone else rapt, and laughing.

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THE MONKEES AND THEIR PAW By Eric Gould

Sad news, and yet more proof that time is marching on, came the news today (2/21/19) that Peter Tork, the lovable bungler of super pop group the Monkees, has passed away at the age of 77...

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

This new episode is about Dungeons and Dragons, the revered fantasy game of this show’s coterie of geeks. But because these are the final episodes of this long-running series, expect even some standard-sounding plots to sport some treats and surprises. Like, for example, tonight’s unexpected special guest (pictured)…

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “Ace Chemicals,” which means, at long last, we should be arriving at the point in the Batman story line in which a chemical accident results in the creation of the frozen-faced villain known as the Joker. But will it be Jeremiah, as played by Cameron Monaghan – who also has played Jeremiah’s now-dead (we think) twin brother, who finally ascends to Joker status by descending into that bubbling vat of chemicals? It should be, because as

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8 1/2 & LA STRADA By David Bianculli

Two great, and classic, Fellini movies are presented tonight as a prime-time TCM double feature: 1963’s 8 ½, starring Marcello Mastroianni (pictured), followed by an earlier classic, 1954’s La Strada. Which begs the question: If two Italian films comprise a Fellini festival, would a single film be considered a Fellinus?

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FLACK By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-episode limited series is about a publicist who protects her clients from all sorts of things, including themselves. Anna Paquin stars, which automatically makes this worth sampling – and if you think of her character, in this dark dramedy, as a sort of female, show-biz Ray Donovan, so much the better. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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'FLACK' IS ENJOYABLE TO WATCH – AND ANNA PAQUIN'S CHARACTER COULD BE HELPFUL TO SOME FAMOUS FOLKS RIGHT NOW By David Hinckley

Because Pop TV has carved a niche with light comedies and fun soaps, some viewers might be surprised at the undercurrent of intensity in its new dramedy Flack. Surprised in a good way...

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SURVIVOR By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. I used to recommend Survivor, for years. But then there were more years, and more years, and even the “new” challenges and team structures became repetitive. Survivor premiered in 2000, and is still around 19 years later, and presenting two different games each season. That’s 19 times two, which works out mathematically, because tonight is called the “Season 38” premiere of Survivor. It’s actually “Cycle 38,

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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII By David Bianculli

This 1933 costume epic is directed by Alexander Korda, and stars the always riveting Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII. And because this is about his private life, and this particular monarch worked his way through a half-dozen wives, this film also features a bevy of beautiful co-stars. All but his first wife appear in this film, so his co-stars include Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn, Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour and, pictured, Elsa Lanchester as Anne of Cleves. Two years later, Lanchester would

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