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2016
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I’m not sure what’s going to be included in this new prime-time, two-hour SNL compilation Thanksgiving special. But if it doesn’t include the classic mid-1970s appearance of Paul Simon, dressed up in a turkey costume to sing “Still Crazy After All These Years,” I’m going to call fowl.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
23
 
 
Repeated for the holidays, in its entirety and just in time: the South Park “Black Friday” trilogy. Don’t leave home without it – especially on the day after Thanksgiving.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
23
 
 
Part 8. Among other elements on this show, tonight’s installment in this series about the evolution of recorded music looks at, and listens to, two popular performers with markedly different vocal styles: Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
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A new PBS special on the sinking of the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor finds a tiny ray of sunshine in a terrible story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
No one could spin a yarn quite like Michael Crichton, so it was probably inevitable that the 1973 movie thriller Westworld would be spun off for the small screen one day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
The judges have nothing to do with tonight’s elimination, which is decided purely by national vote tally. Viewers, therefore, might, like the judge, be more impressed than I was by, say, Miley Cyrus “mini-me” Darby Walker singing “You Don’t Own Me,” spending more time on her makeup and bell-bottom outfit than her emotional honesty, and Aaron Gibson singing “Hurt” with more emotional honesty than vocal prowess. Those song choices, and performances,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
Part 2 of 2. This new four-hour documentary series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. concludes tonight, looking at the evolution of “black America” in the nearly 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Gates and company should plan on a sequel, because the story of American race, and racism, isn’t quite over yet. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
This is the third episode of this all-over-the-map series, which has taken on the flavor of an It Takes a Thief-style caper series (like Robert Wagner in that classic 1960s spy series, Michelle Dockery (last seen as Lady Mary from Downton Abbey) plays a renegade thief forced into service by someone threatening them with a return to prison if they don’t steal and con for them. So far, the appeal of this series is in watching Dockery play such a polar opposite role from her period performanc
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
Part 7. Well, I’m glad there’s a second week of this documentary series, because tonight’s episode is devoted to a very intriguing subject: the evolution of videos and the birth of MTV. For a full TV review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
22
 
 
Parts 3 and 4. Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development continues as the star of this new TBS series, which is unspooled in late night on TBS, two episodes each evening, all this week. She’s still in search of her missing friend Chantal, and has brought several people along on her quest to locate her. So far, there’s not much meat to this comedy series, and not even much comedy. But it clearly has a direction, so for now, I’m willing to follow along. For a full review, see David