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2019
Sep
12
 
 
The second week of TCM’s Thursday night salute to the James Bond movies begins at 8 p.m. ET with the one film starring Sean Connery’s temporary 007 replacement, George Lazenby. He takes up the role of British secret agent James Bond in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which is much more noteworthy for featuring the classiest “Bond girl” in the canon’s history: Diana Rigg (pictured). Other films shown tonight are 1971’s Diamond
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
12
 
 
There are two immediate differences between tonight’s ABC debate among Democratic aspirants for the 2020 presidential nomination and the debates televised previously. For one thing, the field of qualifying debaters has shrunken to 10, a number manageable enough to be contained on a single stage, as well as a single night. For another thing, it’s the first debate in which the leading candidate, Joe Biden, will be facing his closest challenger, Elizabeth Warren, on the same debate stag
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
12
 
 
To put it succinctly, the opening of Ken Burns' new Country Music documentary series, premiering Sunday on PBS, reprises Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter Harlan Howard’s well-known description of a country song as being “three chords and the truth”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
11
 
 
Because September 11 led us to many of the places we find ourselves today, there's value in pretty much all the reminders that come around on the anniversary each year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
11
 
 
I’ve recommended telecasts of this 1975 Steven Spielberg film many times this summer, but now that school is back in session and summer is over, there’s still a chance to enjoy this movie classic one more time this season. And now that I’ve just recently discovered that one of my closest friends has never seen this movie, because of a fear of sharks and swimming in dangerous waters. I’m hoping he’ll read this, decide to watch at least the opening scene, and finally
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
11
 
 
Earlier this week, I showed one of my TV History classes at Rowan University the 1954 live TV Westinghouse Studio One presentation of Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men, followed by the opening minutes of this 1957 film, in which Henry Fonda played the role of the persuasive juror played in the TV drama by Robert Cummings. Rose also adapted a Broadway play version of 12 Angry Men, which is revived often in New York and in local theaters – but this particular d
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
11
 
 
Filmmaker Amy Schatz has carved a specialized documentary career out of seeing dramatic, newsworthy, historical events through the eyes of young people, in such emotional, informative and inspiring programs as Song of Parkland andThe Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm. Tonight, on the 18thanniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, she directs and produces a new documentary, focusing on students at Stuyvesant, the specialized high school located only blocks from the World Trade Center. Stud
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
10
 
 
America’s Got Talent has been a balm for troubled times ever since it first bowed all those years ago, but this summer, in particular, has thrown a spotlight on just how refreshing hope and optimism really are...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
10
 
 
Every Tuesday night this month, TCM presents movies starring Sidney Poitier, who was such a force and presence, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, that any sampling of his movies from that era is worth watching as an all-evening event. Today’s schedule, for example, features five films from a five-year span, at the start of the Sixties, and all deserve your time and attention. At 8 p.m. ET, the Poitier salute begins with 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun. Following that film:
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
10
 
 
The actual season premiere of this series was last week’s preview episode, setting up the season, but I consider tonight’s assembled-on-deadline program the actual season premiere of Inside the NFL, when the studio team works its way through the week’s issues, the biggest games, and, as always, the unsurpassed footage from the NFL Films crews. And no, I’m not expecting a lot of highlights footage of the Miami Dolphins. Not this week. And realistically, not this