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2021
Jan
24
 
 
Last week’s premiere episode set up this new series with a lot of vintage TV touchstones. The episode began with Linda Shelby’s Eliza Scarlet introduced as a sort of Victorian Honey West, and ended with her being visited and advised by the ghost of her late father, as in the Canadian Mountie hero of Due South. And now we know not only her character, but a few others – so with her private eye agency opened, using her father’s name for acceptability, let
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
This week, yet another highlights package of sorts – but this one divides its time among three of the smaller Gallagher offspring. The episode subtitle says it all: “Debbie, Carl and Liam.” And what the first two characters have gone through, since this Americanized version of Shameless began almost a dozen years ago, is amazing. Watch this “remember-when” hour, and see…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
Even before there was a CNN, the world knew Larry King. Eventually, they would entwine...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
This weekend’s marathon on Decades is a show I watched as a teen, haven’t seen since, and wonder now why I watched it in the first place. So I looked it up. Here Come the Brides premiered on ABC  in 1968, as a sort of TV ripoff of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and based on an actual historical incident from the post-Civil War era, when an enterprising mine owner in Seattle sent for scores of women to move West and relocate as possible marriage prospec
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
This new, quickly scheduled CNN special captures what journalists call the fast first draft of history – by having host Anderson Cooper talking about events of this week with historian Dorsi Kearns Goodwin and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. She’s been in several of his films, and they all talk about the past four years as well as the past four days. “I feel like I’m exhaled,” Burns says. But there have been a lot of holding-your-breath moments in 2021 already, and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
In the interview biz, Larry King could getcha because he wasn't about gotcha...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
This day in 1975 marked the start of the ABC sitcom, Barney Miller...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which debuted on this day in 1968, took the blackout formula from vaudeville and adapted it to television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part series comes from Israel, and is another example of streaming services, such as this one and Netflix, increasingly making room for modern TV series from other countries. Israel, remember, gave us the series that Showtime turned into Homeland, so the country can make some fine television. This series is about Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a filmmaker whose best creative films are decades behind her. She’s married to an aging but still in-demand actor, Davi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
Just to note the way Disney+ is rolling out this new Marvel Universe series, which I’m very intrigued by. The first two episodes were unveiled last Friday, but the rest of WandaVision is being presented with new episodes shown once a week, just as with a broadcast TV series. So today is Episode 3 of WandaVision – which, for now, is taking two superhero characters from the Avengers movies, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda the modern witch and Paul Bettany as Visi