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2018
Sep
25
 
 
Another medical show is getting a shot in times when this enduring TV genre lately has amped up its vital signs again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
 
 
CBS’ latest crime series -- it has 13 this fall -- begins in a big and gripping way with chain explosions that decimate a Bronx housing project...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
Flight delays are all too frequent for today’s travelers. It’s bad enough being sardined into a coach seat in a virus-spreading tube full of fellow humanoids...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
Once the new Hawaii Five-O became a modest success, it was only a matter of time before Magnum PI got exhumed. No, it doesn’t need any more reason than that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
NBC’s new supernatural drama Manifest contains a lot of elements that feel familiar and yet add up to something that feels different...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
CBS already has a black belt in reboots, remakes, re-imaginings or whatever else you’d like to label them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 12 for this very long-running, still very funny sitcom – and it’s been announced that it’s coming to an end of its own volition, so savor them even more than usual. What I like most about this series is how organically and charmingly its characters have evolved, especially the peripheral characters who, over the years, have become more and more central. And following at 8:30 p.m. ET is the much younger, still sweet Young Sheldon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is cycle number 15 for this best of all current reality competition series. And while the talent and the structure, season in and season out, continue to shine and to entertain, I worry when the familiarity of the show will begin to breed contempt. For now, though, I’m still planning, and looking forward, to seeing – and hearing – what’s in store.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
Susan Lacy, who ran American Masters for so many years, is the woman behind this documentary, which is original in structure and touching in its honesty. Instead of dividing Jane Fonda’s life into segments devoted to her films, or her various causes, the first four of  Five Acts in the title are assigned to prominent men in her life: father Henry, and husbands Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner. The final act, fittingly, is her own. And while the films in which Fonda starred are show
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
24
 
 
This week’s installment of this salute to Martin Scorsese in the 1970s presents three please-record-and-watch elements. The evening starts at 8 p.m. ET with Italianamerican, his 1974 salute to his mother. Then comes 1978’s The Last Waltz (pictured) at 9 p.m. ET, the farewell concert by The Band – and, with guest appearances by Bob Dylan and many, many others, one of the best concert films ever made. Then, at 11:15 p.m. ET, his early, 1972 drama, Boxcar Bertha, starring Barbara