SERIES PREMIERE: The latest nature documentary series from the Planet Earth group takes the very latest in modern technology (both the footage and audio are astounding) and pairs it with an unprecedented commitment of time, filming various creatures and their plights over months and years. In a way, this up-close-and-very-personal approach has a lot in common with those early Walt Disney nature documentaries of the 1950s and 1960s, giving animals names and families and dramatic story lines so th

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BREXIT By David Bianculli

TELEMOVIE PREMIERE: This new movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch as political strategist Dominic Cummings, who found the path, the issues, the slogans, and the allies to stoke public fervor, flaming the fans of the British movement to exit the European Union – the titular Brexit movement. The parallels to what happened just afterward in the United States, with the rise of Donald Trump’s similarly emotional presidential campaign, are implied but unavoidable. And while, for the first 20 m

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

The first new SNL of 2019 is televised tonight, and the guest host for the occasion is Rachel Brosnahan, star of the Emmy-winning Amazon period series sensation, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. And since she plays an emerging standup comic, her opening monologue ought to be especially interesting. Musical guest: Greta van Fleet.

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THE MACHINATIONS BEHIND 'BREXIT' By David Hinckley

Even Benedict Cumberbatch, alas, can’t fully explain Brexit...

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BUTTERFLY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This British import from ITV, which was televised there last fall, pulls off the same tricky balancing act as Showtime’s U.S. adaptation of Shameless: It creates characters so believable that you actually begin to worry about them and even root for them. (I know, that’s the goal of every scripted show, but I rarely forget that I’m only watching actors in a TV program.) The first three episodes of Butterfly are available today, and they introduce a family that&r

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GRACE AND FRANKIE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 5 for this third-act comedy series, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and the entire season arrives today. Nudity and mind-altering substances definitely included.

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s been two months since Bill Maher presided over an installment of his live, comically barbed dissection of current events. And he returns, for the start of Season 17 of Real Time with Bill Maher, one day after new allegations suggest that President Donald Trump may have suborned perjury by directing his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about his real estate negotiations with Russia during his campaign for president. Among tonight’s scheduled guests are

2019

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HOWIE MANDEL PRESENTS HOWIE MANDEL AT THE HOWIE MANDEL COMEDY CLUB By David Bianculli

Give Howie Mandel all due credit – lots of it – for reinvention. In the early 1980s, he was a young standup comic whose goofy act included lots of props, and included such oddball moves as pulling a surgical glove down over his forehead and letting it slowly snap off into the air. Then he joined the initial cast of NBC’s St. Elsewhere, becoming a central member of the ensemble of what was TV’s most daring drama at the time, doing very solid work. Then, after a quiet perio

2019

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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH MEETS ‘KING LEAR’: ‘DYNASTIES’ IS A DARKER, ADULT LOOK AT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM By Alex Strachan

Remember Blue Planet II and its moments of wonder and grace? Dynasties is not that. This new David Attenborough-narrated nature series is darker and more adult, though no less compelling for it...

2019

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The first season of this latest offshoot in the Star Trek canon established its time line (before the events of the original series), its alternate mirror universe, and many of its characters and conflicts. Season 2 gets a bit more aggressive, boldly going where the original Star Trek went before – at least in terms of characters. We get, for example, the introduction of Anson Mount as Captain Pike, who preceded James T. Kirk as captain of the Enterprise, and who figured i

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