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2015
Jul
30
 
 
No, it's not a soup kitchen because the food is way too good and the setting far too opulent...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
Episode 2. This installment looks at the impact of changing seasons on life on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – and also looks at one of the reef’s most otherworldly visitors, the gliding, imposing manta ray. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
When the earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc on the Pacific Rim in 2011, triggering a nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima power plant, the PBS series Frontline jumped into action and did a very well-reported story on it the following year. Three years after that broadcast, Nova returns to the story. What else is left to tell? Start with this stunner of a fact: There were two nuclear power plants in Fukushima, only a few miles apart – and the second one avoided disaster. How? Tune
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
It’s bad enough I have to mourn the impending retirement of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show. Now I have to watch Key & Peele, another Comedy Central mainstay, knowing that this is that show’s final season as well. So how am I supposed to laugh now? Simple: Just tune in. Their sketch about teachers being revered as athletes is something plenty of people have imagined – but only these guys presented that hypothetical via a SportsCenter academic equivalent.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
On tonight’s episode, Elliot (Rami Malek) helps plan a prison break. He’s reluctant at first – but if the people around Elliot know anything, and they do, it’s how to push his buttons. And not just the ones on his computer keyboard. And he's not the only character being pushed into a corner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
When Ted Cruz canceled at the last minute Monday, Jon Stewart countered by substituting author and historian David McCullough. Tonight, Stewart’s guest is Doris Kearns Goodwin – and when some of Stewart’s last shows are populated by some of our era’s best and most respected historians, it makes you regret his imminent departure even more.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
Here's Jimmy Kimmel, during last night's monologue (Tuesday, July 28), giving his thoughts on the Minnesota dentist who allegedly illegally killed Cecil, a well-known favorite lion who had been lured off a Zimbabwe wildlife preserve...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
29
 
 
Trevor Noah's two-step program seemed daunting at first glance. And it had nothing to do with the mountain he'll soon be climbing as the new host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
28
 
 

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The summer Television Critics Association "press tour" began an edifying/jellifying two-and-a-half week run Tuesday with an unprecedented full-day presentation from the hottest non-TV network of our times. That would be Netflix...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
28
 
 
No, this isn’t a repeat of Fox’s Utopia. It’s a new two-hour documentary about the atomic bomb, keyed loosely to the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb to end WWII in 1945. This documentary traces the history and development of this deadly super-weapon, which transformed global politics in ways that are still being felt. Check local listings.