In today’s Episode 6 of Mrs. America, anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly (played so shrewdly by Cate Blachett) comes up against a new opponent. With only a few years to go in which the proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment must get an additional handful of states to ratify the amendment, they enlist a Republican voice of support: Jill Ruckelhaus, played by Elizabeth Banks (pictured). But Schlafly remains a force to be reckoned with – and here comes the reckoning.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW WITH DAN RATHER By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new edition of his one-hour one-on-one interview show, Dan Rather talks with Robbie Robertson – who is very comfortable talking to Rather not only about his years with The Band, but all those years, with and without The Band, with Bob Dylan. And that includes the day Dylan went electric, which makes this an electrifying TV interview indeed.

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ASIAN AMERICANS IN CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD By David Bianculli

Tonight’s lineup of film rarities, presented under the TCM banner “Asian Americans in Classic Hollywood,” serves up two silent films, then one from the sound era. First up, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1919’s The Dragon Painter, an allegory about a man who believes a beautiful woman has metamorphosed into a dragon. Then come two movies starring Anna May Wong: At 9 p.m. ET, it’s 1929’s Piccadilly, a silent film (with dance numbers!) in which she stars a

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS By David Bianculli

On last week’s show, a neighboring vampire clan was discovered – right there in the Staten Island neighborhood – and many of them were dispatched by a very familiar familiar. This week, the rivalry is more immediate. It’s at work, where Colin usually is overlooked – but this week, he’s up for a promotion.

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BROCKMIRE By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: It’s the last time at bat for Hank Azaria as Brockmire. This season, the fourth and final, finds him eight years in the future – in 2030 – and fighting for the survival of baseball itself. Brockmire, for this final year, dared to dream a dystopian dream, in which the country and its national pastime were a very different place. And this was before the pandemic…

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1980: RON HOWARD AND DONNY MOST EXIT 'HAPPY DAYS' By TV WW

This day in 1980 marked the final Happy Days episode in which Ron Howard and Donny Most appeared as series regulars...

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1988: 'MAX HEADROOM' MAKES ITS EXIT ON ABC By David Bianculli

This day in 1988 marked the last telecast of Max Headroom on ABC...

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JERRY SEINFELD: 23 HOURS TO KILL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: This standup comedy special, filmed last October at New York’s Beacon Theatre but only now premiering, is a remnant of the pre-corona age. Seinfeld is on stage in front of a sold-out, crammed-in audience. And while Jerry Seinfeld is ranting about perceived slights and minor annoyances, he’s complaining about things that now seem not only quaint, but temporarily unattainable. A buffet in Las Vegas? Seinfeld lists lots of very funny reasons why the buffet is a bad ide

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THE SCARLET EMPRESS By David Bianculli

I saw this 1934 Marlene Dietrich historical drama when I was a college student taking a film course – and now, whenever I teach film at Rowan University, I try to find time to show this same movie, hoping it’ll warp and amaze them now the way it affected me then. Dietrich was Josef von Sternberg’s muse, and he lit and photographed and showcased her in ways that redefined cinematic glamour – and, in this movie about the rise and ruthlessness of Catherine the Great, movie k

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NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This biography of actress Natalie Wood is authorized in the most obvious sense, by her family, including two-time husband Robert Wagner, who is interviewed at length anew, by her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner. What’s not part of this biography, then, is an examination of questions surrounding her death – at least not the rumors that swirl around every so often, about the circumstances about her drowning death off the coast of Catalina, allegedly falling off a

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