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2017
Apr
15
 
 
James Stewart stars in this whimsical 1950 comedy, playing a genial, often tipsy man who insists he is accompanied everywhere by his invisible friend, a six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey. Also on tap tonight on TCM: 1959’s The Rabbit Trap at 10 p.m. ET, 1972’s giant-rabbits horror movie Night of the Lepus at 11:30 p.m. ET, and a pair of vintage Tex Avery/Chuck Jones rabbit cartoons at 1:15 a.m. ET. So, clearly, it’s Easter bunnies night on TCM…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
 
 
In episode three of this new AMC series, the dual timelines established in the pilot continue to be explored: Eli as a teenager, captured by Comanches in 1949, and the much more mature Eli in 1915, patriarch of a ranch threatened by changing times more than charging Indians. Piece Brosnan stars as the elder Eli.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This super-long-running BBC series returns for yet another year, but not quite yet another Doctor. Peter Capaldi returns as this latest incarnation of the time-traveling Time Lord, although Capaldi has let it be known this is his last year, before the Doctor regenerates into another new form. It’s the last season, too, for Steven Moffat, who has done such a brilliant job reinventing this series the past seven years. Meanwhile, Doctor Who has a new companion this year, an a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: There have been other spinoffs of Doctor Who over the years, and here comes one more. As a nod to this show’s young viewers and very loyal fans, it’s centered on a classroom, and on the teacher and students who keep the spirit of the Doctor alive when he’s not around. And keep alive their fellow earthlings, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
 
 
Tonight’s installment features Doctor Who himself, Peter Capaldi, who shows up as a special guest, along with Warren Beatty, Jennifer Hudson, and others.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
 
 
Saturday Night Live has been around since 1975, but has never before attempted what it’s trying to do tonight. It’s performing the show twice – once for the East Coast, and again, hours later, for the West Coast. Executive producer Lorne Michaels pulled this off successfully before, but that was with Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, when doing a special live episode of NBC’s prime-time sitcom 30 Rock. For tonight’s “double feature” of SNL, Michaels reaches out
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
14
 
 
It would be presumptuous yet not totally untrue to say Amazon’s Fortitude resembles Fargo without the laughs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
14
 
 
Entering Season 6, HBO’s Veep has reached a stage where its title is a misnomer in league with CBS’ long-running 48 Hours or the recently deceased Cougar Town...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
14
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This series, formerly on the now defunct Pivot network, returns for Season 2 on Amazon Prime Video. Richard Dormer returns as the star of this series, and for the new season, Fortitude adds Dennis Quaid as a new, big-name co-star. It’s essentially a murder mystery set in a remote town in Norway, with a lot of character exploration to boot. And a lot of frozen scenery, just as in Fargo. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
14
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This Netflix original series is a fully authorized remake of the 1988 low-budget cult hit, in which Joel Hodgson, then Mike Nelson, played futuristic space travelers forced by evil scientists to watch bad old movies – space travelers who maintained their sanity by heckling those films as they watched, with help from the equally vocal and sarcastic robots constructed for that very purpose: Crow, Tom Servo, and Gypsy. That often hilarious series, bounced around to several TV