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2014
Apr
2
 
 
Last week’s episode, set in Las Vegas, managed to put Sofia Vergara’s Gloria into a skimpy French maid costume for one fast, funny scene. This week – who am I kidding? With last week’s move (pictured, for posterity), Modern Family has my loyalty, and my attention, regardless.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
 
 
Whenever TCM shows David Lean’s 1962 epic, it’s worth watching – because this network shows the film as it should be seen, in the proper screen ratio, and without interruption. Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
 
 
Elizabeth hasn’t given up on her personal mission yet, and takes aim on the U.S. capitol. Problem is, there are other people in Washington who haven’t given up on their missions yet either, and their paths seem destined to cross soon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Em (Emily Mortimer) and best friend and personal assistant Dolly (Dolly Wells) end Season 1, with a poignant episode that leaves lots of room for an interesting and involving Season 2 – but only if producing network Sky, the British source of this series, opts to make more. Two episodes are shown tonight, and the last one, set in a London restaurant, is the one that really demonstrates this show’s potential.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
 
 
A lovely, funny, creatively presented movie, this 2000 Coen Brothers film is a movie I love to watch, and am happy to recommend, every time it’s on. George Clooney stars, in what surely is the best interpretation of The Odyssey ever put on film.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
 
 
Some people, looking for worthy TV alternatives today and tonight, might opt for The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama on PBS (8 p.m. ET), a new Justified on FX (10 p.m. ET), or the Season 2 premiere of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central (10:30 p.m. ET). But today, of all days, the creature cognoscenti should be heading to Destination America, the little-known, little-watched cable network that today presents a mini-marathon of its Season 2 Mosters & Mysteries in America episodes. Where
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
 
 
One of the TVWW slogans, at least unofficially, is “No Kardashians,” but every once in a while – once a year, to be exact – an episode is televised that is so Kwintessentially Kardashian that it cannot be ignored. Today, almost like Klockwork, that day arrives. Again.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
 
 
Tonight’s new episode of Amish Mafia includes a serious report about a very serious domestic abuse case – even if it’s a case that calls into question the entire cloistered premise of this Discovery Channel series about Amish “enforcers.” Tonight, those enforcers saddle up to shut down an Amish strip club. And that, in itself, raises all sorts of questions? What do they strip? Their collars and bonnets? And instead of stripper poles, do they gyrate around butter chu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
 
 
This question may seem obvious, perhaps even rhetorical, but I’ll ask it anyway: What could possibly be more interesting than a TV show about arm wrestlers?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
 
 
This is a Discovery Fitness one-hour special, examining the medical case of Wesley Warren Jr., a 49-year-old Las Vegas resident with scrotal lymphedema. And if you’re asking yourself, “Is this really the show I want to watch to relax after a hard day of work?,” just remind yourself to be grateful it’s on this network, and not on E! – where, most likely, it would be a series, not a special. Personally, I’d suggest a Comedy Central sequel called The Woman with t