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2019
Jan
28
 
 
Chris Pine’s character regularly takes a beating, as does the overall believability of TNT’s ambitious but convoluted I Am the Night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
28
 
 
The lede is inspired. HBO’s Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists begins with visuals of New York subway passengers transfixed by their cell phones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: The live TV musical, which hit the heights early in the 1950s with NBC’s Peter Pan, was revived by the same network with NBC’s The Sound of Music Live! in 2013. Since then, other networks have picked up the challenge as well, and it’s all to the good. Tonight’s live Fox presentation of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical Rent will be directed by Alex Rudzinski, who’s already proven his skill at this by directing Grease: Live for Fox and Jesus Chri
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This Showtime instant-documentary political analysis series returns just in time, covering the week in which President Trump, on Friday, signed a bill to reopen the government for three weeks, even though it contained no provisions for funding his infamous wall, which is why he called for the government shutdown in the first place. Maybe he just got tired of winning…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Megan Mullally hosts this silver-anniversary Screen Actors Guild awards show, which, among its other activities, presents a Life Achievement Award to Alan Alda, one of TV’s all-time biggest stars, thanks to CBS’s long-running, phenomenally popular M*A*S*H.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
Tonight’s episode is titled “Et in Arcadia,” and has the royal family on a family vacation – but reacting differently to the bucolic surroundings. Albert loves being away from home and isolated out in the country with the family, but Victoria longs to get back to the palace. And she’s the Queen, so guess who wins? Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
In tonight’s episode, in the earliest time line, the detectives find and pursue clues which may link the local church and the Purcell crimes. Mahershala Ali stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new six-part miniseries stars Chris Pine as a washed-up newspaper reporter in 1965, who ends up reheating a cold case that winds its way all the way back to infamous Black Dahlia murder, and beyond. India Eisley, from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, stars as a teenager whose past, and lineage, are crucial to his investigation. I Am the Night is a pet project by Patty Jenkins, who directed Pine in the Wonder Woman movie. She directs the opening episodes, and he
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
In last week’s season premiere, Pete Holmes returned to New York, eager and determined to pick up his standup comedy career there after a long college tour. But it didn’t work out like he expected, leading him to reassess and question his life choices. So tonight, in search of answers and direction, Pete goes to Temple. University, that is…  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
27
 
 
TNT’s shadowy crime drama I Am the Night approaches a familiar piece of film turf – the infamous 1947 Black Dahlia murder case in Los Angeles – from a different direction...