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2020
May
24
PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS By David Bianculli
 
 
Starting tonight, we’re into the portion of City of Angels that Showtime didn’t provide for critics to preview. So I’m not at all privy to what will happen tonight, except that, according to the previews, Natalie Dormer will unleash a lot of fury, and as more than one character. (Mark Ruffalo isn’t the only actor doing multiple duty tonight.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
24
RUN By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Run ends its run tonight, at least for the season – and it does so by picking up on last week’s climax, when Billy and Ruby (Domhnall Gleeson, Merritt Wever) fled the karaoke bar one step ahead of the law. They’re trying to make it back to their train, which was on a multi-hour stopover in the next town. And which, if they reboard on time after jumping off, could provide them with a valid alibi regarding the dead body from which they recently fled. Run,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
24
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli
 
 
Is John Oliver on duty tonight? I don’t think so. But I’m tuning in anyway, because these days, I’m not at all sure…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
23
WAR MOVIE MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
Throughout Memorial Day weekend, TCM is bombarding viewers with a nonstop barrage of war movies. The entries include Casablanca tonight at 8 ET, the 1918 silent war movie (and first Oscar winner as Best Film) Wings on Sunday (pictured), and The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, and  Battle of the Bulge, all on Memorial Day.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
23
TOY STORY MARATHON By David Bianculli
 
 
Toy Story 4 is available right now on Disney+, and for streaming video rental on Amazon, YouTube, and elsewhere. But today, in a three-movie marathon on Freeform, you can the first three Toy Story Pixar films, beginning at 4:55 p.m. ET. On a holiday weekend when lots of kids are around and restless – which, these days, isn’t any different from any other time, I suppose – a triple feature Toy Story telecast should generate a lot of Buzz. And Woody.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
23
NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN By David Bianculli
 
 
Directed by Martin Scorsese and shown originally on PBS’s American Masters in 2005, this lengthy documentary is an excellent, eye-opening, and musically generous artistic biography of Bob Dylan. He’s a notoriously elusive subject, but No Direction Home pins him down about as much as you can – and even has his cooperation. Sometimes, that weakens a documentary. This time, it strengthens it. He’s invisible now, he’s got no secrets to conceal.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
23
2010: 'LOST' ENDS ITS RUN ON ABC By TV WW
 
 
This day in 2010 marked the series finale of the ABC drama, Lost...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
22
2001: THE LAST TELECAST OF '3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN' By TV WW
 
 
NBC's 3rd Rock from the Sun ended its run on this day in 2001...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
22
HOMECOMING By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: The first season of this Amazon series, about subliminal subterfuge and a conspiratorial deep state, had a huge box-office draw at its center in Julia Roberts. She’s gone for Season 2, and taking her place at the story’s center is Janelle Monáe. New co-stars include Chris Cooper.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
22
PALEY FRONT ROW: “HBO’S WESTWORLD: A CONVERSATION WITH STARS AND CREATORS” By David Bianculli
 
 
Available on the Paley Center for Media’s YouTube channel and Facebook page, and its own website, the latest edition of Paley Front Row is streamed beginning at noon ET. It’s all about the third, just-concluded season of HBO’s Westworld, and features a panel discussing led by the show’s co-creators and a big component of that season’s prominent cast. Co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are married, are there, along with actors Evan Rache
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley