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2019
Feb
3
VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, “Foreign Bodies,” Albert goes to Cambridge, while Victoria remains in London, overseeing the city’s sudden and severe cholera epidemic – which affects some of this show’s familiar supporting characters. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
3
TRUE DETECTIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
New evidence comes to light in tonight’s new episode – and old evidence goes missing. Both events have an impact on the case at hand, and in more than one timeline.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
3
CRASHING By David Bianculli
 
 
Madeline Wise continues her supporting role this season as Pete Holmes’ new girlfriend – and in tonight’s episode, she gets even more involved in his personal life. And in his professional career path…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
FINDING NEMO & FINDING DORY By David Bianculli
 
 
In 2003, Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres starred in a wonderful animated film about one fish looking for another. In 2016, they reteamed for an equally delightful sequel, only this time the billing was reversed. Tonight, on this Super Bowl Eve in 2019, Freeform presents them both, as a wonderful, waterlogged twin bill. Or, in this case, gill.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES By David Bianculli
 
 
The episode presented tonight, in this new Dynasties nature series from abroad, is all about tigers. We’ve already had an episode devoted to lions. So what, you ask, is likely to follow lions and tigers? That’s easy: In order, it’s got to be: Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, oh my.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
2
FANTASTIC VOYAGE By David Bianculli
 
 
Just before Michael Crichton came along and starting concocting really neat fantasies involving science and/or medicine – as in Jurassic Park, the original Westworld and the TV series ER – this movie came along in 1966, imagining that to save the life of a critically ill scientist, his colleagues would shrink a team and its submersible craft down to microscopic size and inject them into his bloodstream, for a life-saving mission through his internal bodily systems. This movie has got
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR 2019 – DAY ONE By Roger Catlin
 
 
PASADENA, CA – It isn’t the polar vortex that caused the TV Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour to start nearly four weeks later than usual in Pasadena...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
AMAZON PRIME OFFERS ANOTHER BINGE-WORTHY SHOW WITH 'THE ABC MURDERS' By David Hinckley
 
 
There’s nothing fancy about The ABC Murders, which arrives Friday on Amazon Prime. It’s just a bloody good murder mystery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
THE ABC MURDERS By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Today Amazon Prime Video presents the latest labor of Hercule – Hercule Poirot, the observant detective famous from a series of mystery novels written by genre grande dame Agatha Christie. David Suchet commandeered the role of Poirot by playing him, over a long stretch of years, in a PBS series covering every Poirot story in the canon. The last of those, though, was five years ago, and now it’s time for a new Poirot, played – and played very well – by
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Feb
1
RUSSIAN DOLL By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Actress Natasha Lyonne and comedian Amy Poehler teamed with Sleeping with Other People writer Leslye Headland to create this new limited series, a sort of slightly darker spin on Groundhog Day. Lyonne, familiar as Nicky in Orange Is the New Black (and, long before that, as Opal in Pee-Wee’s Playhouse), plays Nadia, a young New York single woman – who could have been a girl from Girls – who wakes to the sound of Nilsson’s “Gotta Get Up” and
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley