Like many teenagers, Marc Smerling wanted to see a horror film. But the movie was sold out. Instead, he saw The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris' distinctive, 1988 documentary about a murder case. Now, decades later, he's working with that filmmaker...

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Sep

'TEHRAN,' A TAUT SPY THRILLER, DEBUTS ON APPLE TV+ By David Hinckley

A new Apple TV+ series gives us a brave young woman undertaking a dangerous espionage mission in the snakepit of the Middle East. Sorry, hoss, Carrie Mathisen isn't back. She's retired...

2020

Sep

AGENTS OF CHAOS By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. Last night’s Part 1 of Alex Gibney’s two-part Agents of Chaos documentary was an exhaustive, exhausting, ultimately depressing examination of the rise and impact of Russian “troll farms.” Last night’s installment began its narrative back in the early 2010s, when Russia sought, somewhat successfully, to spin the internal and external reactions to the attempted uprising in Ukraine. Yesterday’s two-hour installment cov

2020

Sep

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Sort of. Actually, this Star Trek spinoff series premiered back in 2017, when CBS All Access produced and presented it as the big-ticket offering on its new paid subscription streaming service. And now it arrives as a weekly offering on CBS, the free broadcast network, beginning with tonight’s premiere episode of Season 1. So if this were Jeopardy, and the answer were, “Three years,” the correct question would be: “How long does it tak

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THE HOSPITAL By David Bianculli

Diana Rigg died earlier this month, but TCM already, by coincidence, has this 1971 black comedy on its schedule. Rigg co-stars with George C. Scott in The Hospital, a satire of the health care system, written by Paddy Chayefsky five years before he similarly eviscerated network TV in his superb 1976 movie satire, Network.

2020

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1968: THE CLOCK STARTS TICKING FOR CBS' '60 MINUTES' By TV WW

Today in 1968, CBS debuted the news magazine 60 Minutes, one of the most honored and successful programs in television history...

2020

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1962: ABC INTRODUCES ITS FIRST COLOR SERIES, 'THE JETSONS' By TV WW

In 1962, viewers met George Jetson (and his family) when ABC launched the animated space-age series, The Jetsons...

2020

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AGENTS OF CHAOS By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 1 of 2. Premiering tonight and concluding tomorrow, Agent of Chaos is a two-part study asking if the Russians have conspired, in 2016 and again currently, to interfere in, and attempt to influence, our national presidential elections. The answer: Da! Da! And I’m not talking about an intentionally absurd art movement.

2020

Sep

'ENOLA HOLMES' FINALLY ARRIVES ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley

It would almost require Sherlock Holmes to track the path by which Enola Holmes wound its way to television. Or on second thought, forget Sherlock...

2020

Sep

'THE CHOICE 2020: TRUMP VS. BIDEN' AVAILABLE ON OTHER PLATFORMS By Mike Hughes

For the ninth time, Michael Kirk faced an imposing task: Create simultaneous profiles of both presidential candidates. Interview everyone (except the candidates); ask everything, and hope there are differences between them...

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