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2015
Apr
22
 
 
It’s the silver anniversary of the Hubble telescope, which was launched into orbit in 1990, and, ever since, has provided moments of technological drama and victory and endless photographs of astoundingly clear and breathtakingly beautiful images of the universe around us. The better the resolution on your TV, the more resolved you should be to tune in. From start to finish, and from source point to your own home display, tonight’s Nova is all about modern miracles of science…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
22
 
 
SEASON FINALE: The series that inspired, and is much better than, Gracepoint concludes Season 2 tonight, in the courtroom, as one of the people in the powdered wigs asks the key question, “Do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?”  For a full review of Broadchuch, see Ed Martin's TV Mix. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
22
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Season 3 ends with an episode entitled “March 8, 1983.” That’s the day then-President Ronald Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” – and it’s also the day, in the lives of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell) confront each other on exactly what to do about daughter Paige (Holly Taylor), whose discovery of what her parents do as Soviet spies has put her, as well as them, in danger.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
21
 
 
Two artists are eliminated in tonight’s results show, which will winnow contestants from the Top 10 to the Top 8. A few more weeks of this, and the singers left standing will be able to fit in the judges’ seats.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
21
 
 
This particular stretch of America’s real estate is so storied, so visited, and at times (just around this time of year, specifically) so stunningly beautiful, that the National Mall in Washington, D.C. deserves its own PBS special. So you arborial and social architecture skeptics out there, you’re wrong if you take the default position of apathy: If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen a mall. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
21
 
 
As we get closer to The Age of Ultron, the subtitle of the new Avengers movie arriving at month’s end, we also get more of the cross-promotional cross-plots between that big-screen movie franchise and this small-screen spinoff. Also, in subplots that may not be unrelated, Skye is still learning about her powers, and Coulson goes to a very unexpected source for help: hero turned villain Grant Ward, who may be about to turn, turn, turn again.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
21
 
 
You are what you eat, and that’s especially true whenever functioning zombie Liv (she’s a zombie, but she copes, hides her condition effectively to most people, and holds down a job) ingests some recently deceased brains. This time, she eats the brains of a computer-hacker, and instantly becomes agoraphobic, really proficient at playing computer games, and a virgin. (Okay, so I made up that last part.) Rose McIver stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
21
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: I’m not sure what happened between the end of Season 2 and the start of tonight’s Season 3, but to begin this new year of shows, Amy Schumer comes out with such confidence, audacity and original comic brilliance, she instantly vaults herself and her show to the top of the comedy pack – with every segment of tonight’s opener a jaw-dropping, thought-provoking, laugh-out-loud-inducing winner. Just tune in for the “Milk Milk Lemonade” opening, a f
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
20
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Jim Gordon gets a call from a serial killer called the Ogre (recurring guest star Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes), threatening him that if he doesn’t call off his murder investigation, the Ogre will kill someone close to Gordon. So what does the future police commissioner do? Goes on TV to defiantly ask Gotham City residents for help in catching the killer in their midst. Don’t expect this to end well, necessarily. Meanwhile, Carol Kane, as the future Pengui
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Apr
20
 
 
Tonight, on this live edition, we’re up to – or down to – the Top 10 finalists.