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2021
Jan
27
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Alan Tudyk, who co-starred in two cult Joss Whedon TV series, Firefly and Dollhouse, gets a genre series of his own in this new Syfy series. He plays an alien who arrives on Earth with bad intentions (for earthlings, anyway), but once he assumes the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor, his perspective begins to change a bit. Think of it as an intergalactic version of Northern Exposure… and try it. For a full review, see David Hinckley's
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
27
 
 
When we finally meet aliens on TV or movie screens, it's remarkable how many of them turn out pretty cordial. Mork, Alf, ET, Close Encounters. Dr. Harry Vanderspiegle has no such benevolence in his alien soul...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
27
 
 
Like most small towns – well, most small towns in TV shows – Patience, Colo., has odd folks who feel like they don't fit in...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
27
 
 
If your passion is cheerleading and someone offers you a chance to cheerlead for a National Football League team your first thought might be that you'd do it for nothing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
27
 
 
TV keeps teetering between two extremes – comedy is king, and comedy is dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
27
 
 
On this day in 1976, ABC introduces the Happy Days spinoff, Laverne & Shirley...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
26
 
 
My So-Called Life, the critically acclaimed but viewer-deficient drama about teenage angst, had its season finale on this day in 1995...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
26
 
 
Let’s make this easy: Just give this series a shot, if you haven’t already. It’s that good, and I like it that much. It’s musical, it’s dramatic, it’s funny – and it’s got characters with whom you can empathize, which a lot of TV series don’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
26
 
 
Made in 1967, this movie is based on Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel, a pioneer exhibit in what came to be known as New Journalism. It was adapted for the screen by Richard Brooks, who also directed, and who gave this film an urgency comparable to a documentary treatment. It tells the awful story of a farmhouse Kansas family in 1959, invaded and eventually murdered by a pair of ex-con drifters. The killers in this ferociously grim black-and-white movie are played by Scott Wilson, who many
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
26
 
 
After a relatively long dormant period, this mystery abduction series returns with a fresh episode tonight. The last time there was a fresh episode of Big Sky? Last December.