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2016
Apr
15
 
 
Part 5. It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing – and tonight’s installment of Jazz is all about swing – and how some of the era’s bandleaders treated their musicians and singers, on both ends of the non-musical scale. Case in point: Benny Goodman. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
15
 
 
Tonight’s scheduled guests include Susan Sarandon and Arianna Huffington. One of Huffington’s most recent visits (pictured) was also one of the final TV appearances by Garry Shandling.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 

Jack Hodgins is no Matthew Crawley. Dr. Hodgins, played by T.J. Thyne on the Fox drama Bones, starts the second half of the show’s eleventh season in a wheelchair...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 
I love watching this 1961 movie musical on TCM. It’s not edited, it’s not interrupted, and it’s shown in the original widescreen ratio. So when the Jets are dancing down the streets of New York, you get all the Jets. Richard Beymer, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 
CNN has given a flashy name to this latest debate between Democratic presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders: Brooklyn. And the polls in this state are tightening – so expect the tension to be tightening as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This new season of Orphan Black is all about relocating. The show itself is moving from Saturday to this new time slot on Thursdays – and the show’s narrative is doing a time jump, too – to an earlier point in the Orphan Black narrative. To say more would be, at this point, to say too much. Tatiana Maslany stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: BBC America has looked across the way at AMC, and the success it has enjoyed with such cult-show postmortems as The Talking Dead, and decided, why not play the same game? So after Orphan Black episodes this season, BBC America, beginning tonight, plans to present a TV after-party of sorts, called After the Black.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
14
 
 
This season, BBC America is pulling the same frustrating trick it did a few years ago: moving around one of its best programs, The Graham Norton Show, so that it’s almost impossible to find it. Like Orphan Black, this show, too, has moved from Saturdays to Thursdays – but in this case, not only outside of prime time, but delayed until after After the Black. This talk show series, imported a few days after it premieres in the U.K., ought to be seen in prime time. It’s that good.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
13
 
 
American Idol is gone now, but The Voice is still going – and going, this season, better than ever before. The live performances the past two nights have been truly impressive, with occasional bursts of emotion and brilliance. (Case in point: Shaylah Fearing, last night, giving a performance so raw it earned a standing ovation from the entire crowd, as well as all four judges.) Tonight we learn which of those contestants advance to the Top 12 – and this year, there’s more than
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
13
 
 
Tonight on TCM is a salute to early 20th century German filmmaking – a golden era that includes the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu (shown at 11:30 p.m. ET), 1926’s Faust (1:15 a.m. ET), 1927’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (315 a.m. ET), and the better-known Marlene Dietrich star-making vehicle, 1930’s The Blue Angel (4:30 a.m. ET). And the evening begins at 8 p.m. ET with this superb example of German expressionism from the period: 1920’s famous piece of silen