What is it this season about TV series predicting real-life events with their story lines? This year, Homeland has been dealing with a possible presidential negotiation to end the long-running war with Afghanistan, and to reach a cease fire with the Taliban. But in last week’s episode, things seemed really, really bad for some of the characters, presidential and otherwise. And Saul and Carrie, at this point, could do nothing but watch helplessly as dire reports came back from the

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AVENUE 5 By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This space comedy series was just renewed for a Season 2, so this isn’t the last we’ll see of Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad and all the cruise spaceship passengers lost in space. But my, oh my, how this series has become unexpectedly relevant of late. An elite luxury cruise ship (albeit in outer space) whose passengers become helplessly marooned? A percentage of people who don’t believe the threat around them is real, and end up dying as a a result of their own ignora

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Larry David shopping for a new car, and revealing his concerns, preferences and dislikes – such as not caring about the color, because once he’s inside the car, he never sees it. There are only two episodes left this season, so enjoy them. I plan to.

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

On Friday, Bill Maher announced on his Real Time with Bill Maher show on HBO, which he performed with one guest appearing by satellite (the others showed up in person) and with his staffers serving as the only studio audience, that it would be his last show for a while, until the coronavirus concerns subsided a bit. And even before tonight’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is taped or televised, John Oliver has let it be known that tonight’s program will be a &

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ROBERT REDFORD DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Two of my favorite movies are shown as a TCM prime-time double feature tonight: 1976’s All the President’s Men, which persuaded me to commit to journalism as a career, followed at 10:30 p.m. ET by 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which convinced me not to rob banks. Both films starred Robert Redford, opposite Dustin Hoffman in the former and Paul Newman in the latter. And both, significantly, had screenplays written by William Goldman. Two great sc

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THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR By David Bianculli

Tonight’s repeat of a classic Comedy Hour episode features Jefferson Airplane. It’s another rarity from Season 1, which has never been released on video, and also features Jonathan Winters and Nancy Wilson. But it’s the Airplane’s rendition of “Somebody to Love,” with Grace Slick and her bandmates performing in front of a psychedelic backdrop, that was a groundbreaking part of that 1967 program. And another part of that program, censored and not show

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WHAT TO WATCH WHILE MAINTAINING YOUR SOCIAL DISTANCE By Mike Hughes

Most of us have that inner voice, telling us to watch less television. It's always been there...But now that changes: With coronavirus concerns, watching TV is a socially responsible thing to do...

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'LOST GIRLS' TELLS THE PAINFUL STORY OF THE SEARCH FOR THE SERIAL MURDERER OF YOUNG WOMEN By David Hinckley

An unsolved serial murder case doesn't make for a wildly uplifting television show, but the Netflix production, Lost Girls, finds small victories in a sad game...

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THE PALE HORSE By David Bianculli

PREMIERE: Sarah Phelps, who recently adapted Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence very successfully as a multi-part TV mystery drama, does it again with another Christie mystery. This one, presented in two parts and televised in the U.K. last month, stars Rufus Sewell as man with very personal reasons for solving a series of mysteries. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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BLOODRIDE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series originates from another country: Norway, to be specific, where it’s known under the title of Blodtur. It’s a horror anthology series in which a half-dozen passengers board a mysterious bus, each telling a different eerie story before disembarking. Six twisted tales, as the promo announces. And six subtitled stories. If you’ve seen any TV series or movies from Norway, you know just the type of bleakness and weirdness to expect.

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