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2015
Jun
14
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Given how this Season 5 has been going – and how last week’s episode ended, with another incendiary final scene (this time literally, with the return of a fire-breathing dragon) – how can you not tune in for this? It’s taken five years for the Game of Throne chess game to get to this point, but now, it’s the major pieces who are confronting one another, or teaming up, at every turn.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
14
 
 
After the events of last week’s episode, every character could use a rest – but only two of them get any. That would be Ethan and Vanessa, who retreat for safety to an isolated location. It’s the former cottage of Vanessa’s late mentor, the Cut-Wife, and it’s a good place to practice sharpshooting and notch some intimate alone time. Moor on that later…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
14
 
 
The battle continues between the powerful witches played by Janet Montgomery and guest star Lucy Lawless – and in tonight’s episode, Montgomery’s Mary seems to be getting the worst of it. She’s in stocks, her face painted like a brazen women to humiliate her, and with an angry mob clamoring for a less than happy ending.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
14
 
 
SEASON FINALE: It’s Election Night on Veep, with Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) learning the results of her exhaustive and exhausting campaign efforts. And she’s huddled with her staff as the results roll in, a perfect and perfectly natural excuse to end the season with the gang all together in a confined space as tensions are high. Should be great comedy, regardless of the political outcome…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
Many heroes aren't immediate, as Independent Lens, "Limited Partnership" will point out. This is the story of two men. They fell in love and spent four decades fighting U.S. immigration laws that didn't recognize gay relationships...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
Sarah takes to the road, with Felix and Mrs. S., in search of the Castor Original. Meanwhile, on the home front, Cosima is in trouble for hiding secrets, while Helena finds herself defending her clone sister’s suburban illicit drug-dealing storefront business.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
I still laugh whenever I think of the time Steve Martin, when introducing a tribute to Mike Nichols and Elaine May at the Aspen Comedy Festival 15 years ago, told the crowd he could go on and on extolling the comic gifts and importance of Nichols & May as a comic duo – “but somehow, this seems neither the time nor place.” Well, I could go on and on about Steve Martin’s contributions to TV, film and stage comedy, as the American Film Institute does tonight. But somehow
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
This news special, on Chinese architect Zhang Yue, presents the sort of tell-me-more story you usually see on 60 Minutes. This late-to-architecture entrepreneur has made a fortune, and lots of waves, with his brazen approach to constructing environmentally friendly high-rises. He builds them of steel and glass in pre-fab form, with construction taking place so quickly that his Mini Sky City showpiece, a 57-story office and residential building housing 4,000 people and 800 apartments, was built f
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
At least at this show, taped at a Texas prison, the audience members who think Ross has gone too far won’t be able to walk out. Not without some advance planning – and some power tools.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jun
13
 
 
I’ve said it before, and here I am saying it again: BBC America is doing itself, and Graham Norton, a disservice by delaying the Saturday telecasts of his talk show outside of prime time. Tonight, with the launch of its new Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell series, BBC America is pushing back the start of The Graham Norton Show until 11:15 p.m. ET. And that’s a shame, because the guests this week include, on the same couch, Amy Schumer, Stephen Merchant and Samuel L. Jackson. And Sc