A new day, a new age. America's public broadcaster kicked off the summer TV Critics Association (TCA) press panels Tuesday by Zoom video call, on the eve of PBS's milestone 50th anniversary...

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1952: NBC INTRODUCES 'UP TO PAAR' By TV WW

On this day in 1952, NBC launched the short-lived quiz show, Up to Paar, with host Jack Paar...

2020

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1983: ABC SUMMERS WITH 'THE HAMPTONS' By TV WW

In 1983 ABC introduced The Hamptons, a soapy drama set in one of the nation's most affluential areas...

2020

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SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL By David Bianculli

This 1964 comedy is a real captured-in-amber look at the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, and the chauvinistic male reaction to it. In 1962, psychologist Helen Gurley Brown wrote Sex and the Single Girl, a frank book that was the spiritual precursor of Sex and the City – the column and the HBO series. This movie, based on that book in the loosest sense, stars Natalie Wood as Helen Gurley Brown, and Tony Curtis as a magazine reporter who signs on as a new

2020

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VERTIGO By David Bianculli

AXS does it again, and presents another Alfred Hitchcock classic to enliven our Monday night TV options. In previous weeks, AXS already has shown The Birds, Psycho, and Rear Window. What could possibly follow those brilliant suspense movies? How about 1958’s Vertigo? James Stewart stars as a man with more psychological problems than just the one in the title, and Kim Novak co-stars as the woman that becomes the object of his affections – and obsessions.

2020

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POV: "ADVOCATE" By David Bianculli

This new documentary profiles Lea Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer who for decades has defended the rights of Palestinians to resist the occupation. Political and courtroom opponents refer to her as “the devil’s advocate.” With much more fondness, so do many of the people she represents. Check local listings. For a full review, see Mike Hughes' Open Mic.

2020

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INSIGNIFICANCE By David Bianculli

This 1985 movie rarely is televised – and though it’s easy to understand why, it’s also a fascinating flop. It’s a fantasy about four icons who end up one night in the same hotel room. They’re identified only by occupation – the professor, the actress, the senator, and the ballplayer – but clearly, they’re meant to be Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and Joe DiMaggio. And they’re portrayed, respectively, by Michael Emil, There

2020

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ON 'POV: ADVOCATE,' LEA TSEMEL, A REBEL WITH A CAUSE By Mike Hughes

For Michel Warschawski, the impression was instant...

2020

Jul

'REBECKA MARTINSSON' RETURNS FOR SEASON 2 WITH, WELL, A DIFFERENT LOOK By David Hinckley

Now here’s an identity crisis for a TV character: Even the actress who plays you is different...

2020

Jul

PERRY MASON By David Bianculli

This is Episode 6 out of 8 in this miniseries prequel to the Perry Mason canon – and it’s taken this long for Perry (played so well, and so noir-ishly, by Matthew Rhys) to finally enter what will become his home environment: the courtroom. But after arriving with all deliberate speed, Perry is at the point of defending an accused murderer, a woman suspected of complicity in the kidnapping and death of her own baby. To this point, Perry Mason has been engrossi

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