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Rosalind Russell is today’s featured actor for TCM’s Summer Under the Stars salute. You can watch her movies all day and all night – but the standout arrives at midnight ET, when TCM televises 1940’s delightful His Girl Friday, the razor-sharp remake of The Front Page. Russell plays a star newspaper reporter, and Cary Grant co-stars as her editor – and ex-husband. One-liners fly furiously. So do sparks.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Be patient with Marvel’s The Defenders. The long-awaited miniseries...finally arrives on Netflix on Friday, and it’s not one of those action-adventure shows that hits the ground in overdrive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Warning: Watching NBC’s new sitcom Marlon might wear you out...Marlon uses the “situation” part of sitcom primarily to set up comic bits by main man Marlon Wayans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Last week, this new series from Stephen King and David E. Kelley began with a horrifying opening sequence: At a snaking line for admittance to a jobs fair, hopeful people gathering hours early for their turns at finding potential employment were mowed down by a murderous motorist. It was chilling to see a week ago, and even more chilling to recall, in retrospect, after this weekend’s horrifying act of vehicular homicide in Charlottesville. And tonight comes episode two, where there’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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This is a repeat, but of a subject I find particularly fascinating, and certainly worth a second look. Or, if you missed it before, a first. In central China, a massive underground mausoleum housed a collection of life-size terracotta warriors – a sculpted army, amassed to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. But from what? And how? And how were these sculptures shaped and manufactured in the first place? Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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This program premiered last week, so this is a rerun – but it felt so good to watch it, I’m pointing out its prime-time repeat tonight in case you’d be similarly interested in watching some civil political discourse. Rubinstein’s joint interview this week is between former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and they take turns answering very interesting questions about their experiences as the chief executive – including how they felt when they first occupi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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SERIES FINALE: Tonight’s episode is not only the conclusion of this third season of Broadchurch, it’s the conclusion of the series in its entirety. And when it began this season, Broadchurch boasted one cast member who had played Doctor Who, the excellent David Tennant. Now it can boast two, sort of, because Jodie Whittaker will take on the role soon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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In recognition of the 40th anniversary of his death, TCM celebrates Elvis Presley day all day today, The highlight of the schedule is this 1964 musical, in which he cavorts, musically and otherwise, with the equally sexy supernova Ann-Margret.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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The rest of the cast oftentimes might just as well be cardboard cutouts. NBC’s Marlon, getting a belated late summer launch, is very much a vehicle for star and co-executive producer Marlon Wayans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Epix’s spanking new Get Shorty series comes from good bloodlines and has ample bloodletting amid its hard and soft toss one-liners...