SERIES PREMIERE: CBS launched this new talent competition series immediately after the Super Bowl on Sunday – and enough viewers woke up, or fought off boredom-induced slumber, to give it a sizable post-Bowl audience rating. Tonight that same premiere episode is repeated, in the show’s regular Monday time slot. The talent on hand is global, and aggressively unusual – an America’s Got Talent writ large – but the host and judges here are much more likable. Drew Barrym

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2019 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS By David Bianculli

Postponed from last month, and held tonight in the House chamber only because we have resolved one government shutdown this year and not yet embarked on another, is the 2019 State of the Union Address. President Donald Trump is delivering the speech again this year, for the second time – but for the first time in his presidency, he’s not preaching to, or in front of, a majority of the converted. The Democrats in the chamber, adding up both House and Senate congresspeople, now outnumb

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INSIDE THE NFL By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Inside the NFL says farewell until next season, by deconstructing the New England Patriots’ plodding victory against the Los Angeles Rams. Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis should have fun on this show, at least: All season on Inside the NFL, he’s been stressing the importance of the defense, while the QBs on this analysis show have laughed at him, quoting each week’s wildly super-sized offensive stats. So now Lewis gets to talk Super Bowl LIII, where

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DRUNK HISTORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new Drunk History episode, on “Trail Blazers,” tells one story in particular that I can’t envision how they’ll actually pull it off. It’s a moment in history I teach, and show vintage TV news coverage of, every term in my TV History & Appreciation class at Rowan University: the 1957 crisis at Little Rock, when the governor of Arkansas refused to integrate a high school there, defying the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme

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'AMERICAN SOUL' SHIFTS BET INTO SCRIPTED STORYTELLING MODE By Ed Bark

Black Entertainment Television, longhand for BET, had its own Don Cornelius in Robert Johnson, who launched the network with his wife, Sheila, in 1980 and sold it to Viacom 20 years later for a reported $3 billion...

2019

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ON PBS, THOSE WHO BUY, SELL, AND REPRODUCE 'BLACK MEMORABILIA' By David Hinckley

It’s no reflection on Chico Colvard that he’s better at raising the issue of racist memorabilia than at resolving it...

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THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new Episode 4 of this modern vampire drama, the little girl gets loose whose blood and lineage may be central to a “cure” for medically induced psychic vampirism – loose in the woods with the man determined to protect her. The episode title suggests at some violence ahead: It’s called “Whose Blood Is That?”

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I AM THE NIGHT By David Bianculli

TNT premiered this new mystery miniseries after the Golden Globes, repeating its opener in its regularly scheduled Monday time slot a day later. Now, one week after that, finally comes Episode 2, with the teenager Fauna traveling to Los Angeles in 1965 to seek out her mysterious grandparents – the start of the unraveling of a series of hidden secrets going all the way back to the Black Dahlia murder from decades before. Chris Pine, India Eisley star.

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PUPPY BOWL XV By David Bianculli

For the 15th straight year, Animal Planet presents its canine counterpart to the Super Bowl, with impossibly cute little pups cavorting on a small-scale football field. Or maybe, in this case, it’s a pawball field. At any rate, these playful puppies will be divided into teams, and wil compete to win the “Lombarky” trophy. Which is not, despite popular rumor, named in honor of TVWW’s own beloved Uncle Barky.

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SUPER BOWL LIII By David Bianculli

It’s the New England Patriots, led by all-time great quarterback Tom Brady (and as a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, how it pains me to acknowledge that, much less type and post it), back in the Super Bowl for the third consecutive year. The Los Angeles Rams, on the other hand (and on the other side of the line of scrimmage), are playing in the Superl Bowl for only the fourth time in its history. Today, though, it’s not just a story of experience. It may or may not be a battle for the a

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