This is not a recommendation: America’s Funniest Home Videos, hosted by Bob Saget, premiered on ABC back in 1989. It’s been around most of the time since then, with host and title tweaks, except for taking little more than a year off at the start of the new century. But even counting from 2001, this ABC series is one of TV’s most tenured shows – older, at this point, than any continuing prime-series except for 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Simpsons, Dateline NBC,

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is not a recommendation, either. This is the expanded finale for this first pandemically affected season of American Idol. How will it end, without an audience there to offer support and encouragement? Who will win? And if the winner sings in a forest and no one hears them, have they ever sung at all? For a full review of the home versions of American Idol and The Voice, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

2020

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WORLD ON FIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the last episode of the year for this PBS import – but since the network is referring to it as a season finale, not a finale, and since the war it’s dramatizing is far from over, there may be more episodes of World on Fire to come, in time. Check local listings.

2020

May

KILLING EVE By David Bianculli

Last week’s installment of Killing Eve was 100 percent Villanelle, following Jodie Comer’s twisted assassin as she returned to her childhood home and roots, tracked down her birth mother… after which, let’s just say, things led to an emotional mother-daughter confrontation and climax that was beautifully acted, tangibly intense, and quite fiery. This week, we get back to Sandra Oh’s Eve, who was last seen witnessing the sudden, brutal slaying of her estra

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THE LAST DANCE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES CONCLUSION: For a month now, ESPN has been offering double-dose helpings of this new documentary about Michael Jordan’s 1997-98 final championship run with the Chicago Bulls. Mostly, The Last Dance, so far, has been an entertaining and informative look at the long, arduous path to that final celebrated season – but tonight, the big payoff finally arrives. As does the big playoff.

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I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE By David Bianculli

Last week, this HBO miniseries, featuring Mark Ruffalo in a dual role, began with one of the more gripping opening scenes in years kicking off a TV drama in recent memory. Ruffalo plays twin brothers, one of whom is schizophrenic – and who, in the starting scenes, goes to a public library, begins quoting from the Bible, and cuts off his own hand. Then his brother, in the emergency room, supports his twin’s pleas to not have the hand reattached. How do you not keep watching

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BILLIONS By David Bianculli

Sunday night is, indeed, a night of riches for TV, with so many shows bursting with talented casts and gripping story lines. Here’s another one, of course, and Corey Stoll already has established himself as a worthy opponent for Axe (Damian Lewis), in both financial dealings and overall ruthlessness.

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PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS By David Bianculli

Here’s another excellent Sunday night Showtime series – and tonight’s episode allows the veteran cop played by Nathan Lane to get deeper into the hidden underbelly of Los Angeles, where, improbably, he uncovers Nazis, scientists, and links to the rumored development of what could turn out to be the atomic bomb.

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RUN By David Bianculli

Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag guest starred in last week’s episode, and so did Archie Panjabi – but the latter’s guest run on Run was cut short when her character, Fiona, suffered an unexpectedly serious fall from the second story of a barn. And tonight, to retrace their steps and retrieve evidence from the scene of that tragic accident, Billy and Ruby (Domhnall Gleeson, Merritt Wever) have to go back to that farmhouse. And, perhaps, re-encounter the survi

2020

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I think it’s a new show this week. These days, though, I’m not completely certain of much of anything, so tune in to the first moments and see. If he’s discussing old news, John Oliver is not really discussing last week on Last Week.

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