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2016
Apr
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Steven Soderbergh made a film called The Girlfriend Experience in 2009, and now is executive producer of this new series, which borrows the title, the basic subject and mood, and little else. The same sort of trick was attempted, and pulled off spectacularly well, with the TV itieration of Fargo, so there’s a precedent – but expecting that level of success may be unreasonably optimistic. At any rate, Riley Keough, Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, plays Christine
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
10
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Last season, which was Season 1, this series seemed a little adrift as it walked through the earliest zombie outbreak in this prequel to The Walking Dead. This season, they’re adrift again, but this time it’s literal: The central group of survivors we’re following takes to the sea on a boat. Good thinking, because the dreaded Walkers can’t find them there, right? But watch out for Swimmers! For an interview with Kim Dickens (Madison), see David Hinckley's
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
10
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 5 begins, and this year the show begins with Marty and Jeannie (Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell) working together again – not only at work, but on parenting.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Andrew “Dice” Clay launched a successful career rebirth a few years ago, thanks to a knowing guest arc on HBO’s Entourage and a shockingly sincere and effective acting turn in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. Now he has his own series, a Curb Your Enthusiasm-ish character study in which he plays a comically exaggerated version of himself. Which, given his infamously misogynistic “Dice” alter ego, may sound, and even be, redundant. But here it is.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
Caitriona Balfe gets to slip into some spectacular embroidered gowns in the new season of Starz’s Outlander. More impressive, that’s not how she steals the show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
Part 4. This installment, focusing on the years 1929-35, is set during the first years of the Depression – bad times for everyday people, but wonderful times for jazz. Especially jazz recordings, which began to come into their own. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
This is a repeat of the two-hour opener of The Eighties, which launched last week with an episode all about television. I’m in it, and advised on it, and last Thursday, when it premiered, I finally saw it. And liked it, despite my own presence it in. So to all my friends and relatives who complain that I never give warning when I’m going to pop up on TV (which, believe me, is a rarity) – here you go. Consider yourself forewarned. And you loyal TVWW readers, since I did mention
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
Usually, when Anderson Cooper is interviewing someone, he’s revealing a lot more about his subject than he is about himself. Not this time. Not when the person he’s interviewing is his mother, and not when his mother was, for a brief time, one of the more famous people of the early 20th century: the “Poor Little Rich Girl” at the heart of a bitter custody fight between her wealthy and high-profile parents. So when he interviews her – or talks to her, really –
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: I see England, I see France. I see that this time-travel romance series is back for another season, and moving to a new and more glamorous setting. See David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower for a full review, and for an interview with the show’s star, Caitriona Balfe.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Apr
9
 
 
Russell Crowe is the guest host, and Margo Price is the musical guest. I think that’s the way you spell her name – let me check. Yep. The Price is right.