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2015
Mar
12
 
 
Last night, the show revealed its Top 12 contestants – and for the most part, both the viewers and the judges got it right. Tonight, the contestants will try to prove that, by singing for the right to stick around for another week of competition.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
12
 
 
In 1956, Playhouse 90 presented the live drama premiere of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Jack Palance as a past-his-prime boxer betrayed by his own manager (Keenan Wynn). Ed Wynn, Keenan’s father, co-starred as the boxer’s aging corner man, and all three were terrific. Six years later, the TV drama was remade as this Hollywood movie, starring Anthony Quinn as the boxer, Jackie Gleason as the manager and Mickey Rooney as the corner man. They’re all very
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
12
 
 
This series is staying put, for the moment, in its new Thursday time slot, but the shows on either side of it are changing. The Slap, which used to lead off the evening at 8 p.m. ET, now is televised at 10 – while the opening hour of prime time, from tonight on, is devoted to a relocated Dateline NBC. Even so, this is the hour that’s the most rewarding, so stay tuned – and stay put.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
12
 
 
Last week’s premiere established the crime at the heart of this season, and introduced most of the characters. But not all of them, and a few more, including one played by Regina King, are introduced tonight. Also tonight, the show’s texture and plot get even more layered – so please watch, because it’s a rewarding viewing experience.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
12
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Tonight is the last Portlandia for a while – and it ends with a clash of cultures, leading to a courtroom scene in which a defense attorney, played by Paul Reubens, defends some of the town’s familiar (to viewers, at least) nonconformists.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
11
 
 
Tonight’s episode identifies the Top 12 finalists for this season – and also brings, to a  more central stage, Scott Borchetta as the new mentor for the 2015 contestants. As a record executive, his name may not be familiar – but since he’s the guy who signed Taylor Swift a decade ago, his ear (and eye) for talent cannot be denied. Singers gotta sing (sing sing sing sing), and signers gotta sign (sign sign sign sign)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
11
 
 
Associated Press TV reporter David Bauder just noted that this Fox series has done something that may be unprecedented in the last 20 years, at least: Ever since its premiere, this prime-time drama series has increased its weekly audience. That’s an unbroken eight-week streak of increased success, swelling the Empire audience to more than 14 million weekly viewers – second, in today’s TV landscape, only to AMC’s The Walking Dead. And the show’s first season isn&rsqu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
11
 
 
In this second season, Broadchurch is exploring the same ground that, in a different country and in a less rural setting, ABC’s American Crime has just begun to traverse. It’s a drama not only about the solving of a crime, but about its ramifications to many people involved: families of the victim and the accused, investigators working the case, and others caught in the tide of a crime.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
11
 
 
The tension has ratcheted up to piercing proportions in tonight’s episode, and it’s quite a family affair. Mom is sent out to accomplish a deadly assignment, Dad has to handle his increasingly demanding “other wife,” and Daughter calls out her parents on what she deems shifty and inexplicable behavior. And she’s right…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Mar
11
 
 
Tonight’s episode shifts focus, from the post-breakup travails of Josh (Jay Baruchel) to those of his sister Liz (Britt Lower), who finds herself having to re-enter the dating pool herself. Josh insists she has an incredible gender advantage – and tonight’s reverse-perspective episode, borne out even in the show’s promos, tests that hypothesis.