Television's all-time most important and impressive newsmagazine, See It Now, was also its first. It began Nov. 18, 1951 in an almost hidden timeslot — 3:30 on a Sunday afternoon — with reporter Edward R. Murrow and Director Don Hewitt broadcasting live from a cramped CBS News studio...

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MICKEY MOUSE By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: In this new showcase, Disney+ adds to the canon of Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts, which is where Walt Disney’s entire empire began. Like most other modern continuations of classic cartoons, the animation itself, like the writing, is a bit less animated. But it’s nice to see traditions upheld and continued, rather than just tossed aside and ignored. Are you listening, White House?

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BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 By David Bianculli

In this 1940 movie musical, Fred Astaire is paired with Eleanor Powell, and they do one stamina-challenging, fantastically precise tap dance number – with minimal edits and with the camera framing their full bodies and panning to follow them – that I just showed to my Rowan University film class. But here, thanks to a late-night showing on TCM, is the entire film, for my students, and you, to enjoy in its entirety. At this point in this pandemic school term, I don’t expect them

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LEGO STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Now this is diving deep into the geek weeds. Star Wars, the original George Lucas film that launched the franchise (now part four in the saga), premiered in 1977. A TV holiday special followed the next year, featuring enough of Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher to get them in the credits, but mostly focusing on Chewbacca and a trip to his Wookie homeland. I reviewed the show then (yes, I’m that ancient), and not that favorably – and th

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WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA By David Bianculli

This is Night 12, almost the end, of TCM’s Women Make Film documentary series. This week, the movies shown after the documentary are the biggest draw, so stay tuned. They include Zelda Barron’s 1989 film Shag, a romantic comedy-drama set in 1963 and starring Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda (9:15 p.m. ET, pictured). And Wednesday morning, the film treasures continue at 7:30 a.m. ET with 1992’s Orlando, Sally Potter’s take on the Virginia Woolf

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BIG SKY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: David E. Kelley, having quite a stretch adapting other people’s books into TV series and miniseries, currently is doing great work on HBO’s The Undoing. And starting tonight on Big Sky, he does some solid work adapting the C.J. Box book about young women who become the latest captives, and potential victims, of a human predator prowling the open roads and shadowy truck stops of Montana. The story opens slowly but effectively, with some jolting sur

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DAVID E. KELLEY'S 'BIG SKY' REMINDS US BROADCAST TV IS STILL OFFERING GREAT PROGRAMMING By David Hinckley

Memo to TV viewers: The broadcast networks are still in business...

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'BIG SKY' IS A HOMECOMING OF SORTS FOR DAVID E. KELLEY By Mike Hughes

David E. Kelley is finally back where he started – writing and producing for a broadcast network...

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