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2019
Nov
21
 
 
There’s only one session scheduled for today – a joint session featuring two witnesses. But my, what witnesses. Joint testimony will be given by Fiona Hill, a former White House expert on Russia and Europe, and David Holmes, the embassy official at Kiev who reportedly overheard a cellphone conversation between ambassador Gordon Sondland, who testified yesterday, and President Donald Trump.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
21
 
 
Last week’s episode made it look like the Earth was doomed… but Eleanor (Kristen Bell) comes up with a desperate last-ditch option, which requires the ultra-indecisive Chidi (William Jackson Harper) to formulate a plan to save the planet, under a very intense and literal deadline. Oh, well – whatever happens, at least there’s shrimp…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
21
 
 
Tonight’s episode is titled “2 Fathers,” and has to do with the origin of a particular crucifix. And it’s entirely possible, given the sinister antagonists on this show, that the person – or demon – who generated it may not be someone that our team of investigatory heroes may not want to cross.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
20
 
 
Reboot mania has slowed its frenetic pace this season, although not to a crawl just yet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
20
 
 
SERIES RETURN: The original Mad about You, starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as the married Buchmans, premiered way, way back in 1992, and won Hunt a passel of Best Comedy Actress Emmys. The series ended in 1999, with a finale episode that took their newborn baby, Mabel, and flash-forwarded 22 years into the future, where a now-grown Mabel, played by Janeane Garofalo, had become a young filmmaker. Now, do a flash-forward in the real world 20 years after that finale. The series M
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
20
 
 
Last night, after the first day of a jam-packed “double feature” of House Impeachment hearings, with witnesses testifying in both morning and afternoon sessions, both of them quite lengthy, Rachel Maddow remarked on her prime-time MSNBC show that it was, as she put it, too much. Well, today, there’s another double header – followed, on Maddow’s home network, by the latest evening debate among Democratic presidential nominees. I’m with Rachel: “No mas! No
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
20
 
 
Three wonderful movies, all from 1971, are shown as a terrific tripleheader on TCM. I saw all three of these films on their respective opening days, and have seen each movie many, many times since. At 8 p.m. ET, the action begins with Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in a very unorthodox Western. Then, at 10:15 p.m. ET, it’s Alan J. Pakula’s Klute, starring Jane Fonda in her Oscar-winning role as a hardened ca
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
20
 
 
Because 10 hours of live political coverage in one day just isn’t enough…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
19
 
 
Week 2 of this real-life political miniseries drama continues today, with two different “episodes” presented at different times of the day. In the morning, at 9 a.m. ET, two witnesses are called to testify before the committee. One is Jennifer Williams, a foreign service aide from Vice President Mike Pence’s office whose deposed testimony appeared to contradict Pence’s statements of being unaware and uninformed of the alleged U.S. pressure on the new Ukraine leader to gen
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
19
 
 
Don’t expect tonight’s episode to be full of happy happy joy joy. Its title comes from one of Leonard Cohen’s saddest songs: “So Long Marianne.”