Broadcast news came of age, and reached reliable maturity, in large part because of Edward R. Murrow – first in his prewar and wartime reports for CBS Radio, then for his stubbornly intelligent and mostly meaningful work on the new medium of television...

2014

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THE STUFF THAT TV DREAMS ARE MADE OF By Linda Donovan

My name is Linda, and I’m a TV addict. My jones began for me as a child...

2014

Jan

THE 56TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS By David Bianculli

There’s a Beatles tribute being taped by Grammy attendees for broadcast closer to the golden anniversary of the group’s record-breaking appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Consequently, I’m not sure how much thunder will be generated by the appearances of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on tonight’s show – or even whether they will play together, or appear separately. But with Ken Ehrlich producing, the Grammys are a guaranteed must-see music event anyway, because of

2014

Jan

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: "DOWNTON ABBEY" By David Bianculli

The friction between Anna (Joanne Froggatt) and Bates (Brendan Coyle) continues to escalate, because she refuses to tell him of her being sexually assaulted because she fears – she knows – that her husband will exact revenge by murder, and thus return to prison. But Bates is anything but stupid – and tonight, despite all of Anna’s efforts and protestations and denials, he begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Check local listings.

2014

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TRUE DETECTIVE By David Bianculli

Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey’s detectives get deeper into the case in tonight’s episode, in this show’s extended, complicated flashbacks. But they also get deeper into each other’s lives, in ways that don’t always mesh, and sometimes lead only to more friction. And in the present, McConaughey’s time in “the box,” interviewed by modern counterparts to his old police partnership, spins into more and more strange behavior.

2014

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MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: "SHERLOCK" By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called Sign of Three, and takes place at the wedding of Watson (Martin Freeman) to Mary (Amanda Abbington), with Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) as a very surprised, and distracted, best man. Check local listings.

2014

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EPISODES By David Bianculli

The sitcom-within-a-sitcom on this show, Pucks, is in danger of imminent cancellation. Its star, Matt Le Blanc, couldn’t be happier, because he’s jockeying for another, better job – but the way he’s behaving, especially towards show writers Beverly and Sean (Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan), has them much less happy. And not because Matt is hoping for cancellation – because they are, too.

2014

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1979: CBS INTRODUCES THE ACTION-COMEDY 'THE DUKES OF HAZZARD' By David Bianculli

On this day in 1979, CBS introduced The Dukes of Hazzard...

2014

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LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AX By David Bianculli

This new Lifetime telemovie is so bad, it’s not even a hot mess – it’s a warm one. But it’s worth a peek, in a voyeuristic or masochistic way, because almost everything about it is so astoundingly wrong. Excluded from this harsh verdict is Christina Ricci, whose portrayal of the titular ax murderer is the one solid element in the entire project. What, otherwise, is so bad? The absurdly anachronistic and inappropriate musical score. The variously visited and revisited murd

2014

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JAWS By David Bianculli

Tonight, this 1975 movie classic is presented on TCM – which means it’s televised in the proper screen ratio, and without commercial interruptions or edits for violence or language. In other words, it’s one of the best ways to watch one of my favorite films of all time. Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss star. Steven Spielberg directs. And when Shaw, as grizzled sailor Quint, tells of his wartime experiences during a late-night drinking session on his shark-hunting

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