MOVIE PREMIERE: This sequel to the 2015 Disney musical, aimed at and hitting the lucrative but fickle “tween” and pre-teen market, continues the story of the offspring of familiar Disney villains. Mal (Dove Cameron), the purple-haired daughter of Maleficent, reprises her lead role, and China Anne McClain is introduced as Uma, the daughter of Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Disney is hoping to make quite a splash here, by premiering the Descendants 2 musical simultaneously not o

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50 YEARS OF HITCHCOCK By David Bianculli

We’re up to the mid-Fifties in TCM’s month-long Wednesdays and Fridays this month, and that’s Alfred Hitchcock’s sweetest sweet spot. So tune in, strap in, and tonight and next week, wallow in some of the best suspense movies ever made, by Hitch or anyone else. This evening begins with 1954’s Real Window (pictured), an unequivocal classic (and tour de force of celebratory voyeurism) starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Also tonight: At 12:15 a.m. ET, The Man Who

2017

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THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is all about “Desserts,” so if you’ve been waiting for this imported baking show to get its just desserts – well, tonight, it’s just desserts. Check local listings.

2017

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IF YOU WANT TO CATCH THE OPEN, YOUR TEE TIME IS EARLY. VERY EARLY By Gerald Jordan

Set your clocks to OMG time, because that’s what you’ll need to snap to attention at 1:30 a.m. EDT Thursday to watch the 146^th edition of The Open...

2017

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LEARN THE HISTORY OF ‘DUNKIRK’ FROM THE BBC PRODUCTION By David Hinckley

With the acclaimed movie Dunkirk landing in theaters this week, it’s a good moment for another, earlier British perspective on that remarkable drama...

2017

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2017 BRITISH OPEN GOLF By David Bianculli

Once again, it’s the Royal Birkdale course in the spotlight, hosting, from Southport, England, the 146th British Open, on a course that’s peppered by 125 pot bunkers. Doing the math, that’s an average of about 7 bunkers per hole. And these pots are deep. For a preview, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.

2017

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O.J. SIMPSON PAROLE HEARING By David Bianculli

This TV special event isn’t expected to last very long, but it’ll be widely available on news networks and on various live streaming websites. At 1 p.m. ET, the Nevada Board of Parole is scheduled to meet in Carson City, live and perhaps with some members video conferenced in, to rule on the possible parole of Simpson, who was sentenced in 2008 to a minimum of nine years in prison for his role in an armed robbery. Simpson, now 70, will participate by video conference from the Loveloc

2017

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HOOTEN AND THE LADY By David Bianculli

Here’s the second episode of this import from Britain, starring Michael Landes and Ophelia Lovibond as a pair of period globetrotting adventurers. Why do I mention it? Because, on Thursdays in the middle of July, there’s very little else on TV that’s fresh, and not a tacky game show.

2017

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BRAINSTORM By David Bianculli

Today, in the morning and afternoon hours, TCM is presenting a series of movies starring Natalie Wood, including such charming light comedies as 1964’s Sex and the Single Girl (10:30 a.m. ET) and 1965’s The Great Race (12:30 p.m. ET). The movie most rarely televised, however, is 1983’s Brainstorm, a sci-fi drama in which Wood stars opposite Christopher Walken. Wood died in 1981, after completing almost all her principal photography, and the movie – a fantasy thrille

2017

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FROM CHARLENE FRAZIER STILLFIELD TO MELANIE BIRD: JEAN SMART ON THE MANY CHARACTERS SHE’S BROUGHT TO LIFE By David Hinckley

Noah Hawley says one of his primary inspirations for writing the FX sci-fi series Legion was Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. But Jean Smart suggests she was more inspired by another classic rock band of that era: Blind Faith...

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