Tonight’s Frontline comprises two short documentaries. The title film, Love, Life, & the Virus, tells a story that’s almost too horrific to complicate: A woman is due to give birth soon when she, her husband and older son all become infected with COVID. She ends up giving birth on a ventilator and spending weeks in a coma, awakening to learn the fate of her newborn baby. Nicest of all Spoiler Alerts: Because she and her family were isolated while fighting to r

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HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 15 premiere of this HBO Sports series, which documents the efforts of a particular pro football team to prepare for a new season of play. This season, of course, is unprecedented – and no one knows, before it begins, whether it’ll actually conclude. Or even start. But that makes this a particularly important football season to document, and Hard Knocks is doing it by following the decisions and actions of two Los Angeles teams: the Rams a

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'THE OTHER ONE' WILL FIND YOU ROLLING YOUR EYES AND GIGGLING AT THE SAME TIME By David Hinckley

Sometimes, or maybe more than sometimes, you want to scream at every character in a sitcom, "Stop! Just stop!"...

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SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: NORMA SHEARER By David Bianculli

Some of the most satisfying days in TCM’s annual “Summer Under the Stars” month come when they set aside 24 hours for a deep dive into some of the careers whose films have been less celebrated, or at least available, in recent decades. Today’s subject, Norma Shearer, certainly remains celebrated – the prime-time anchor of her salute today, 1939’s The Women, is an acknowledged and still widely repeated classic. But there are many of her movies that do

2020

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD By David Bianculli

I was really touched by this 2019 film, in which Tom Hanks plays children’s TV host Fred Rogers, and I recommend it highly. It’s based on one specific chunk of time in Rogers’ life, when he assented to be profiled for a 1998 Esquire magazine by writer Tom Junod. Matthew Rhys, whose Perry Mason HBO miniseries just wrapped for the season yesterday, plays the journalist – who, in this film, is renamed Lloyd Vogel, a fictional character. And therein lies m

2020

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1948: 'CANDID CAMERA' COMES TO TELEVISION By TV WW

On this day in 1948, ABC introduced the hidden-camera reality show, Candid Camera...

2020

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1982: CBS DEBUTS ITS SATIRICAL SITCOM 'FILTHY RICH' By TV WW

On this day in 1982, CBS premiered the soapy sitcom, Filthy Rich, which satirized prime-time hits such as Dallas, Dynasty and Falcon Crest...

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WE HUNT TOGETHER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-part British TV series is imported by Showtime as a Sunday night summer feature – and get used to it, because during the pandemic, a lot of networks and streaming services will be dipping deeply into available resources and inventories to fill schedules. This one is about Freddy, an alluring woman played by Hermoine Corfield (pictured), who has two primary jobs: phone-sex operator and killer. She’s pursued by a pair of cops, played by Eve Myles and Babou Cee

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SHARK WEEK: “TYSON VS. JAWS: RUMBLE ON THE REEF” By David Bianculli

Shark Week, on Discovery, is one of those annual cable TV traditions that demand a visit each year – if only for a momentary check-in and pop-in, as with Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl. Shark Week began back in 1988, when Ronald Reagan was in the White House – and is still going, presenting a yearly summer week of programs that run the gamut from informative nature documentaries to absurd TV stunts. Guess which category Tyson vs. Jaws falls into? Don’t exp

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