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2015
Feb
10
 
 
After two high-profile premiere unveilings on ABC’s top-rated Wednesday comedy lineup, this new series shifts to its regular night on Tuesday – starting off with another double dose. By the time they’re over, if you watch both, you’ll be well acquainted with this new Asian-American sitcom’s strengths. And its weaknesses.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
10
 
 
This sitcom is having fun in its final NBC season, using its slightly future setting (2017) to have given its characters time to grow, or change – or, at least, react differently to one another. That’s evident in tonight’s two back-to-back episodes, both of them fresh. And one of them features an unusual guest star, portraying himself: John McCain.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
10
 
 
This series has only a few more weeks to wrap up before the return, in its time slot, of its sister series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) has had a good couple of weeks, finally getting to go on her first mission, and more than holding her own with the Howling Commandos. But now, she’s under danger from a threat much closer to home – next door, in fact, in the neighboring apartment, in the form of a brainwashed Nazi girl, now all grown up and extr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
10
 
 
Dr. Atul Gawande, who wrote last year’s nonfiction book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Happens in the End, is the focal point of tonight’s new Frontline, which examines the way in which we do, and should, deal with people diagnosed with a terminal illness. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
10
 
 
Boyd (Walt Goggins) has decided to target the crime kingpin who threatened Ava. Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) has decided to target the sinister outsider who’s buying up all the local land. Turns out they’re both after the same guy, played by Sam Elliott – but that doesn’t mean they’re working together. In fact, as this show builds towards its series finale, just the opposite is true, while, also occupying center stage, is Garret Dillahunt, playing yet another memorable
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
10
 
 
For years, Williams augmented his anchoring of the NBC Nightly News with laugh-seeking guest appearances on late night talk shows and a hosting stint on Saturday Night Live. Now it seems as if the whole world is laughing at his expense. Can he survive? Should he survive?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
9
 
 
Sometimes the heroes in TV shows are pitted against straw men, but this week, as the Gotham origin story lines continue, that’s taken more literally than usual. The villain? The Scarecrow.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
9
 
 
Robert E. Sherwood adapted MacKinlay Kantor’s novel for the big screen in this powerful 1946 drama, which, one year after WWII was over, dramatized the plight of returning war veterans, and the impact of that war on both the veterans and their loved ones. Think of it, if you like, as a previous-generation character study on par with American Sniper, mounting with haunting sensitivity by director William Wyler. Dana Andrews, Fredric March and Harold Russell star, and watch for singer-songwr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
9
 
 
We’re getting used to seeing founding fathers on this show, and tonight, here comes another one: Thomas Jefferson, played by guest star Steven Weber.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
9
 
 
Part 3 of 3. In tonight’s concluding installment, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof presents such globe-trotting, problem-spotlighting segments as Regina Hall visiting a battered women’s shelter in Atlanta, Mia Farrow and Rowan Farrow in Kenya, supporting an organization protecting young women in Kiberia. Check local listings.