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2018
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19
 
 
Last week’s entertainingly unpredictable episode of Gotham ended with Jerome, the apparent Joker-to-be villain played by Cameron Monaghan, killed in a fall – and killed in a definite enough way that, even with all the back-from-the-dead stories already spun out on this series, it seemed Jerome, and thus Monaghan, was not to morph into the iconic Joker after all. But then, in the final scene, a package sent by Jerome before his death to his reclusive and meek brother Jeremiah was deli
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
19
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Sheldon, bored by his subjects and most of his teachers at school, audits a college course – where he finds a very kindred spirit in the somewhat peculiar professor, played by guest star Wallace Shawn.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
19
 
 
Strange, with the success this spring of the re-boot of Roseanne, that headlines should turn toward news of the passing of Harry Anderson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
Many years before LOL and OMG and LMK and the rest of today’s social media shorthand, I was introduced to a newspaper business acronym: BBI...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
Thursday’s final episode of Scandal, high-octane though it no doubt will be, reminds me of an odd truth about television series: More of them run too long than end too soon...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
Here’s the third of three straight nights of the live playoffs – when the saves and steals are rare, and the competition even more elevated.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
This is weird, but its lineage makes sense. Roberto Agierre-Sacasa, executive producer of this dark interpretation of the Archie comics world, also was co-author of the screenplay of the 2013 film remake of the Stephen King horror classic Carrie. So when he and his writing and producing cohorts decided to write an episode about the Riverdale kids putting on a high school musical, they naturally decided on doing an amateur production of Broadway’s Carrie: The Musical. After all, Riverdale a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
This 1942 Humphrey Bogart classic is one of those movies you just presume – or at least I presume, anyway – that everyone has seen by now. But what college teaching has taught me, among many other things, is that the only way to ensure a classic retains its classic status is to be reintroduced continually to the new generation. So if you’re reading this, and have yet to experience this deservedly iconic film, watch it tonight. I promise, it’ll be the start of a beautiful
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
Another thing I’ve learned by teaching college students is that today’s college kids consider Bill Nye a sort of rock star. His Disney Channel series, Bill Nye the Science Guy, is a beloved memory of their childhood. And now Nye is aiming to teach adults, especially deniers of the human impact on climate change, and this documentary both chronicles and examines those efforts. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
18
 
 
This is the first of this season’s episodes I haven’t seen in advance – but I can’t wait, because the Cold War of the late 1980s is beginning to hit very close to home in the Jennings household. Philip has been asked to spy on Elizabeth, his own wife – and tonight, he might have very good reason to do precisely that.