All 11 hilarious seasons of The Carol Burnett Show, which premiered on CBS in 1967 and ran until 1978, are about to become available as a streaming offering, for the first time, on the Shout! Factory website and YouTube channel, beginning Monday, June 1. To promote and celebrate the launch, Shout! is presenting a 48-hour marathon of Carol Burnett Show programs, sampling highlights from the entire run. Tune in, and it’ll be very difficult to tune out. And afterward, you&

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THE HUNGER GAMES MARATHON By David Bianculli

Hungry for some movie franchise entertainment? Or maybe your teen kids are? Today on Freeform, 2012’s The Hunger Games is being televised at 1:15 p.m. ET, followed immediately, and sequentially, by all three sequels. Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen.

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SPACE LAUNCH LIVE By David Bianculli

This space launch from Cape Canaveral, the first such U.S.-based mission in a decade, was originally scheduled for last Wednesday, in the late afternoon – but I didn’t even list it in my Best Bets that day, because I grew up in Florida, and the idea of a late afternoon in late May without a rainstorm just seemed hugely against the odds. And yes, as easily predicted, cloud cover and rain scrubbed the launch that day – but the private-government partnership of SpaceX and NASA has

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THE RED SHOES By David Bianculli

Sumptuous photography, beautiful choreography, and a fabulous story worthy of the fable that inspired it, this 1948 film, starring Moira Shearer as a magically driven ballerina, is a wonder. And if you’ve never seen it, today should be the day. It’s one of the few positive side effects of a lengthy shelter-at-home stretch: finally getting around to reading some of those literary classics and catching up on some classic music and TV. That’s the theory, anyway…

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2004: HBO INTRODUCES 'SOMETHING THE LORD MADE' By TV WW

On this day in 2004, HBO debuted the telefilm Something the Lord Made...

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1974: CBS SAYS GOODBYE TO 'THE SONNY & CHER COMEDY HOUR' By TV WW

This day in 1974 marked the final telecast of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on CBS...

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THE FAULT OF 'SPACE FORCE,' DEAR VIEWERS, IS NOT IN THE STARS By David Hinckley

The cast outshines the story in Space Force, a new Netflix comedy that launches on Friday...

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CENTRAL PARK By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Central Park is a new series from Apple TV+, and one that, at first, may sound eminently skippable. It’s an animated series about a wacky family in Central Park, where the patriarch works as a park manager. But the more you learn about this Central Park, the more intriguing it gets. It’s from the creators of Fox’s Bob’s Burgers – and when that network passed on this new series idea, Apple TV+ scarfed it up. And the show

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