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2020
Sep
13
 
 
Scott Pelley interviews Bob Woodward about Woodward’s latest book, and bombshell, in which he recorded President Donald Trump for nine hours of total interview sessions – and already has made headlines for some of the things Trump told him. It’s the second President for whom Woodward’s reporting has dealt with accusations and impeachment proceedings, smoking-gun audiotape recordings, and led to the key question, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
13
 
 
How widespread has the impact of the Bob Woodward interview tapes with President Donald Trump been this week? The reporters on The Circus will tell you, by tracking the reactions, inside and outside the Beltway.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
13
 
 
Bizet’s opera Carmen comes to the big screen in this 1954 adaptation, which updates the setting to the lead-up to the Korean War – and adapts the sultry story by filling it with an all-Black cast. The offstage collaborators include an unlikely duo: director Otto Preminger and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote new lyrics to some of Bizet’s music. But on screen, wow: Dorothy Dandridge stars in the title role, as the siren who ensnares most of the men around her,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
13
 
 
You know that saying about walking in another person’s shoes? Tonight, thanks to a magic spell, Ruby (Wunmi Wosaku) gets to do just that.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
13
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: This is the sixth and final episode of this crime story and character study, involving two couples (coincidentally, both pair a Black man with a white woman) – and each pair has an equal claim to the phrase in the title. One couple hunts people to kill; the other couple is hunting the killers. And tonight, the latter catches up to the former. But then what?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
13
 
 
Piet Van der Valk is sort of your standard TV (or movie) detective. But there are two things that are unusual about him...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
12
 
 
For months, actors were simply in limbo. "People used to say show-business was Depression-proof," Bette Midler told the Television Critics Association (TCA) recently. "In the Depression, the movies were the only things that survived."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
12
 
 
In the middle of America, even in places that don't love Donald Trump, the term "coastal elites" is rarely spoken in admiration...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
12
 
 
I don’t know why Decades has decided to go on such a strong run of weekend marathons of late – but please, Decades, keep them coming. From noon ET today for the rest of the weekend, Decades is filling the weekend with episodes of the little-televised, not-currently-streaming 1967-69 ABC series N.Y.P.D. This isn’t the 1990s David Milch cop show, NYPD Blue. It’s a TV rarity in more ways than one: a half-hour drama series, shot mostly on location in and a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
12
 
 
PREMIERE: Coastal Elites was originally intended, by playwright Paul Rudnick and director Jay Roach, to be presented as a theatrical work on stage – but the pandemic changed all that. The result might have helped when it came to casting, because by having its characters communicate remotely in Zoom-like monologues, converting the drama to TV allows for cast members to literally phone it in. Hence, this HBO version lands Better Midler, Sarah Paulson, Issa Rae, and others, deliveri