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2019
Mar
24
 
 
The Greatest Story Ever Told some time ago became the most popular story ever retold, and now here’s History back to have another go at the life of Jesus Christ...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
In these second-round March Madness games, it’s always fun to seek out the surviving double-digit seeds. They’ve already defied the odds, and their higher-ranked opponents, by winning their first game – and now, emboldened by that success, have the opportunity to score another bracket-bending upset. Today, that possibility exists with the first televised game of the afternoon, when CBS begins coverage with its noon ET broadcast of No. 2 Tennessee vs. No. 10 Iowa. Other games co
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
My all-time favorite episode of The Simpsons – and by “all time,” I’m going back 30 years now, to its 1989 Christmas special – is its “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge” installment from 1990, when Marge organizes a protest against the violence in the cartoons watched by her impressionable children. (Itchy and Scratchy, the perennial and bloody rivals, are rewritten to placate the protesters, resulting in boring cartoons that drive the kids outside to pla
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
Last week, Shadow Moon’s dead wife came to the rescue, jumping aboard a train where he was held captive by some of the new gods, and preparing to free him. This week, the new gods prepare to retaliate, and enlist a compatriot who has yet to be seen this season. Last season, the relatively new god of Media was portrayed by Gillian Anderson, who adopted such high-wattage pop-culture guises as Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, and David Bowie. (And was terrific as all three.) Anderson left the sh
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
Tonight is the penultimate episode of the new season, with yet another showdown between the whisperers and the townspeople. And the hour is titled “The Calm Before,” so expect even more action in next week’s stormy season finale.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
Episode 2 of this well-made new CNN biography of Richard M. Nixon is titled “Nixon’s the One,” which was one of his presidential campaign slogans. And the closer Tricky Dick gets to Watergate, the more amazingly relevant it is.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
This is Part 3 of this re-examination of the case involving the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Yee, and the subsequent murder conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed. Or, more accurately, this is a re-re-examination, since this cold case already was re-examined, famously, in the influential podcast Serial.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
Billions is stronger than ever this season, which really is saying something. Its ensemble cast is one of TV’s best right now, and the conflicts between characters are becoming ratcheted to even higher levels of intensity. And new characters – bold, exciting ones – keep getting introduced. Watch, tonight for Nina Arianda, from CBS All Access’ The Good Fight and Broadway’s Venus In Fur, as a new Wall Street power player who establishes her alpha-female dominance in h
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
The Mueller report was released late Friday afternoon, and the reactions and ramifications continue. Good luck dealing with the latest, and the subtleties, at the literal last minute, John…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
24
 
 
If a new documentary on Britain’s Prince Charles should become the definitive video summation of his life, it’s safe to say his rehabilitation is complete...