DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

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LINDA DONOVAN

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DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Miles O’Brien produced this last-minute addition to the Frontline lineup. It’s a documentary both about how the current pandemic began and spread, and how the media covered it, and governments reacted to it, at the start. Talk about the rough first draft of history. Here we go – but here, at least, you’re most likely to get the true Sgt. Friday Dragnet approach. Just the facts, ma’am. For a full review, see David Hinckley's
 
 
 
  
 
 
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TVWW Resident David Bianculli takes a quick dive into some of the Hulu binge options now available...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Finding a TV program about the coronavirus pandemic is about as hard as, um, turning the TV set on. But for a good compact update, sorting out many of the conflicting claims and arguments, it’s worth checking out Frontline’s Coronavirus Pandemic...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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On this day in 1993, CBS debuted the crime drama Walker, Texas Ranger...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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On this day in 1997, HBO debuted the telefilm In the Gloaming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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The TCM Classic Film Festival home edition is over, but that doesn’t mean TCM is through offering clever program packages to its viewers. Jane Russell continues to be TCM’s Star of the Month, so Mondays in prime time are devoted to her movies. Tonight comes a Jane Russell double feature that’s also a Hair Color double feature: 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (co-starring Marilyn Monroe, whose musical standouts include her iconic “Diamonds Are a Girl’
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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SEASON FINALE: We knew that Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill, a.k.a. Saul Goodman, couldn’t die in the desert two weeks ago. We also knew he couldn’t die when being threatened by a bigwig cartel thug last week. He has to survive, to be able to go on to his exploits as already dramatized in Breaking Bad. But Rhea Seehorn’s Kim Wexler? Now Saul’s wife? That’s a completely different story. Kim was never even mentioned, much less seen, in Breaking Bad&nb
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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MINISERIES FINALE: This David Simon-Ed Gross TV miniseries version of the Philip Roth novel ends tonight. Spoiler Alert: If you read the novel, don’t expect things to end with one happy climax after another.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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This is the penultimate episode of this series as well, which I don’t like to contemplate. After next week, it won’t be the same fabulous evening of television: no Better Call Saul, no The Plot Against America, and no Dispatches from Elsewhere. Oh, well. The Mamas & The Papas warned us, long ago: “Monday, Monday, so good to me / Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be / Oh, Monday morning, Monday morning couldn’t guarantee / T
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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Sports fans are finding no shortage of classic sports programming on their TV sets these days. In fact, that’s about all they’re finding, and it’s getting, so to speak, a little old. The Last Dance raises the bar...