This competitive fantasy makeup show is hit and miss, but when it has a good theme of the week, the competing makeup artists can be stretched in entertainingly diverse directions. Tonight’s assignment: Design makeup for a creature that would be likely to emerge from one of the nine circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. Expect inordinate representation from the Second Circle, which contains hellbound victims once consumed by lust (Cleopatra, Helen of Troy). Fun fact: When I was 15, an

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‘MUM’ MAY BE A WIDOW, BUT SHE’S CERTAINLY NOT ALONE By David Hinckley

They say that after the death of a spouse, it’s good to be surrounded with people. They never met the people who surround Cathy Walker...

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TNT'S ‘WILL’ FINDS A WAY TO MAKE SHAKESPEARE ROCK By Ed Bark

All these years later, the ploy’s the thing with William Shakespeare. How can the fabled bard’s life and times be cleverly exploited anew in hopes of luring a new generation of younger viewers?...

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A MILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE IN TNT’S ‘WILL’ By David Hinckley

Imagine William Shakespeare not as a dignified and revered master playwright, but as a scrappy young dreamer who looks like he could have stepped out of a Twilight movie...

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WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

Wil Wheaton, the young crew member on Star Trek The Next Generation and Sheldon’s nemesis on The Big Bang Theory, shows up tonight to play with the resident improv comics of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

2017

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THE DEFIANT ONES By David Bianculli

Part 2. This documentary on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine continues, with the same obsequious perspective on their respective musical careers. The stories told are good ones, though, if you can accept them as overly fawning. One, in tonight’s installment, explains the origins of the Tom Petty-Stevie Nicks duet on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Not to be Petty, but it's one of the best stories told tonight...

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WILL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: ABC’s current Still Star-Crossed provides a sequel of sorts to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but without any real verve, style, or reason to watch. Tonight’s new TNT series, Will, seeks inspiration from Shakespeare, too, but this time from the playwright, not his plays. It’s been done before, of course, in Shakespeare in Love and in several other attempts, incuding the 1978 British miniseries Will Shakespeare: His Life and Times, starring Tim Cu

2017

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P.O.V.: "LAST MEN IN ALEPPO" By David Bianculli

This season, P.O.V. has been highlighting films about the crisis in Syria – and tonight, the program ends that multi-week salute by showing the TV premiere of Last Men in Aleppo, a documentary about the volunteer organization known as the White Helmets, who provide aid to residents caught in the cross-fire of the uprisings and military crackdowns in Syria. Last Men in Aleppo, directed by Feras Fayyad, just won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Ch

2017

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FROM REFRESHING NEWCOMERS TO VERY IMPORTANT DRAMA, HERE’S AN EARLY LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S CONTENDERS FOR THE EMMY NOMINATIONS By Alex Strachan

There are just two things you need to know about the Emmys this year...

2017

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THE STORY OF ‘THE DEFIANT ONES,’ DR. DRE AND JIMMY IOVINE, DEBUTS ON HBO By David Hinckley

The collaboration between entrepreneur Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine may not be the most unlikely in the recent history of popular music, but it’s certainly been the most lucrative...

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