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2018
Aug
25
 
 
This 1956 drama, adapted by Tennessee Williams from his one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, stars Karl Malden as a cotton gin owner who has been married for two years – to his “Baby Doll” wife, played by Carroll Baker, who is just about to turn 20. That impending birthday marks the age at which, according to a prearranged agreement with her father, the cotton gin owner is allowed to finally consummate the marriage with his virgin bride, who has spent the marriage thus far te
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
25
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new three-part nature series, shown in March on BBC One, premieres on BBC America tonight, with Liz Bonnin and a team of scientists visiting nature’s most famous archipelago, the virtual birthplace of Darwinism. Episode one, “Cauldron of Life,” starts with the volcanically active Western islands, and includes a search for a rare species close to extinction: the pink iguana.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
24
 
 
If you’re a fan of shape-shifting, don’t miss The Innocents, because June McDaniel offers an interesting variation on that popular pastime...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
24
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Early on in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy slept with the vampire-with-a-soul Angel, only to have him revert immediately to a monstrous post-coital brute – perhaps the ultimate metaphor for the sexual dynamic feared by a young woman surrendering her virginity to a loved one. In The Innocents, there’s a more fairy-tale supernatural dynamic at work: a young girl, upon reaching her 16th birthday, suddenly discovers she has unknown, powerful abilities that
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
24
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Earlier in 2018, this documentary film by Stephen Maing, about the apparent persistence of quotas in arrests by officers in New York City, won a special “Social impact” jury award at the Sundance Film Festival. Today, in premieres on Hulu, focusing on a dozen NYPD officers who resisted orders to meet illegal quotas, and were punished as a result.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
24
 
 
Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” on TCM salutes Peter Lorre, which means a lot of wonderful movies. Start at 7:30 a.m. ET with 1944’s riotous Arsenic and Old Lace, and make sure to be there at 8 p.m. ET with the creepy German masterpiece, 1931’s M (with Lorre playing an accused child molester, pictured), is televised. Others shown today and tonight are treats, but those two are gems.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
24
 
 
Can’t wait for this one: Tonight’s opening interview guest is former CIA director John Brennan. If Brennan doesn’t make news with this TV appearance, it’ll be the first time he’s failed to do so in a while now…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
23
 
 
Some of the best movies in Virginia Mayo’s resume aren’t part of today’s all-day, all-night tribute – The Best Years of Our Lives isn’t here, for example. But lots of films are, including ones that aren’t televised often. Those would include tonight’s prime-time opener at 8 p.m. ET, 1949’s Flaxy Martin (pictured), which has Mayo playing the title role: a showgirl caught between a gangster and a lawyer.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
23
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. This two-part special on the Royal Family, concluding tonight, comes not from ABC News, but from the folks behind People magazine. Expect a commensurate level of intellectual and contextual depth – like one of those puffy pastries on The Great British Baking Show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
The pace is deliberate at best, and in full-dawdle at times, as Season 2 of the Audience network’s Mr. Mercedes begins just a bit before the first one left off...