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2016
Nov
22
 
 
Ellen DeGeneres envisions a new service which will be the perfect antacid for all that ills at the Thanksgiving table after an unprecedented and divided presidential season. It’s an app called Mobile Moderator...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
TBS’s new offbeat comedy Search Party starts with the bad news and then starts getting better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
The live shows have gone well so far in this final round – for both the singers and the judges, who are similarly constrained to perform well under pressure, with no retakes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
Produced in association with the Boston Globe, this new documentary hones in on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing – but stresses the aftermath, both of the pursuit of the terrorists and the recovery efforts of the survivors.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
Episode 2. This new series from Ron Howard and company is part documentary, but also a big part scripted fictional story – science fiction in the most precise sense, telling a feasible story about a “future mission” to Mars. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Last week, I described this excellent documentary series on recorded music as a five-part series. I’d blame my pain meds, but I stopped taking them two months ago. Several of you noted my mistake, and I’m happy to report that you’re right and I’m wrong. There are still three episodes left, thank goodness, starting with tonight’s installment, which includes the rise of hip-hop, the development of musical “sampling,”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
21
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development stars in this new TBS series, which is being unveiled in late night, two episodes per night, for a one-week burst, beginning tonight. (Though if, like Soundbreaking, it ends up leaking into next week as well, then I’ll be 0 for 2.)  She plays Dory, a pampered housewife’s personal assistant who impulsively takes on a mission in life she deems more meaningful: rounding up a posse of friends in hopes of locating a former colle
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
20
 
 
This live awards show is heavy on performances – and though it’s no Grammys, it does have its share of chart-topping, spotlight-grabbing talent, usually hot pop artists with new CDs to promote. Tonight’s roster, for example, includes Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, and Green Day.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
20
 
 
After spending last week in Alexandria, and with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his fellow cowering cohorts, tonight’s episode spends much of its time with other characters, other potential or definite adversaries, and yet another ominous setting: the Hilltop.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Nov
20
 
 
This is the eighth episode of this series – and by now, it’s bent our understanding of the program’s reality so far into itself that it’s almost like a DNA strand of alternate consciousness. And as a reality-bending concept, Westworld is so resonant that it was used last night as a reference with which to end a sketch of increasingly anxious (and ultimately robotic and malfunctioning) CNN anchors.