This profile of country singer Loretta Lynn is a warm reminiscence, and the memories come from more than just the singing star herself. For example, there’s a journey down memory lane with both Lynn and Sissy Spacek, who portrayed Lynn in the 1980 movie Coal Miner’s Daughter. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.

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FITZCARRALDO By David Bianculli

Werner Herzog directed this fascinating 1982 film about a man pursuing a dream with almost monomaniacal zeal – a description which may have fit Herzog’s approach to filming on location. Klaus Kinski plays Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan is to bring opera to the Amazonian jungle. It’s a plan that requires him to drag a large riverboat across a mountain to traverse from one body of water to another – and Herzog, in recreating the efforts, took no shortcuts. I first saw

2016

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THE CELL By David Bianculli

Tarsem Singh is a former music video director (R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”) who has a lush and original visual filmmaking sense – one that TV finally may tap into successfully later this year, as he’s the staff director on the upcoming Wizard of Oz semi-sequel Emerald City. But until now, his best work has been as director of this 2000 crime drama, which takes the delve-into-the-mind-of-a-psychopathic-killer theme from Silence of the Lambs and approaches it litera

2016

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include Sarah Silverman. But with a news week cycle that includes Super Tuesday primary results, there’s no lack of talk topics.

2016

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Last week’s opening installments of the latest season of The Voice had more energy than the same week’s finalists-introducing episode of American Idol – and that’s just talking about the judges. Tonight, with votes from the audience and another round of live performances, Idol has all the recipe ingredients – live telecast, so much at stake, viewers finally in control – that could make these last laps around the course very entertaining. And they should. If no

2016

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THE FAMILY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Jenna Banns, who created Scandal, is behind this other addition to the ABC Thursday night lineup – and that ought to be enough information right there, for some people to decide to watch and for others to safely avoid. Its basic premise is this: a young boy disappears, and a sex-offender neighbor is convicted of murder – but then, 10 years later, a young man claiming to be that same boy suddenly reappears. What happens to the murder conviction? And to the rest of the

2016

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PREY By David Bianculli

Here’s a new British import that really hits the ground running – then, almost as its getting started, shifts to a higher, different gear. The part of this new series that was established in last week’s premiere was the Fugitive aspect – but now it pivots its way into a Prime Suspect story line, where the person in charge of apprehending the fugitive officer is his friend, a woman who’s just been put in charge of the investigation.

2016

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BASKETS By David Bianculli

Eddie (Ernest Adams, pictured) is hungry to extract some “cowboy justice,” and goes on a road trip to do just that. Along for the ride, reluctantly or not: Chip and Martha.

2016

Mar

PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

Look who’s visiting Portland, and Portlandia, this week: It’s Louis C.K., who finds himself forced to have dinner with two of the city’s more clueless, self-centered and self-deluded residents – who see every sentence from the comedian as the start of a new routine, whether it is or not. And given his mood, it’s most definitely not…

2016

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'THE FAMILY' SHOWS ITS SHONDA ROOTS AS IT FILLS IN FOR 'SCANDAL' By David Hinckley

It’s come to this: When a Shonda Rhimes show like Scandal takes a break from ABC’s Thursday night lineup these days, another Shonda show like The Family is all queued up to fill the slot. Sweet...

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