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2015
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The best new series of the year is about to drop on Amazon Friday, with every episode of Season 1 available at once: The Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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SERIES PREMIERE: Unless you count Season 2 of FX’s Fargo as a brand-new series (which you shouldn’t, because it’s a rebooted anthology show), The Man in the High Castle deserves credit as the best new show of the season. That’s on broadcast, cable or streaming TV – and even that’s not high enough praise, because the fall 2015 season has been a relatively crummy one. But this new series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick (whose sci-fi stories have inspired s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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SERIES PREMIERE: Another streaming service drops the entirety of Season 1 of a new series today. On Netflix, it’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones, its second TV series effort from the Marvel universe, following on, and set in the same world, time and neighborhood as its predecessor, Marvel’s Daredevil. I liked Daredevil, but like this new series even more. Krysten Ritter, who was so good in Breaking Bad as Jesse’s junkie girlfriend, has another dark role here. She stars as a forme
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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This two-hour TV version of Wednesday’s concert, from Los Angeles, is spread across several cable networks in a simulcast: A&E, History, History 2 and Lifetime all are among the six networks presenting it tonight. Headliners include Bruce Springsteen, John Legend and Tom Morello performing “American Skin (41 Shots),” Jill Scott singing “Strange Fruit,” and Big Sean and Common closing the show with “One Man Can Change the World.” Other performers incl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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This TV version of the Broadway salute to songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb features songs from such hit shows of theirs as Cabaret and Chicago. The cast of singers includes James Clow, Kate Baldwin, Matthew Scott and others. Come to the cabaret, old chum… and enjoy. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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SEASON FINALE: This is the final installment of Bill Maher’s live political talk show for the year, and for what, for him, is Season 13 of this always-interesting gabfest. Among tonight’s scheduled guests: Gavin  Newsom and Andy Cohen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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In a move that caused virtually no ripple at all in the TV biz, FX cancelled The Bastard Executioner this week...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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Melissa Rosenberg, who created Netflix’s intense new Jessica Jones series, doesn’t see why white guys should be the only ones who get to enjoy a world of constant danger, unrelenting darkness and haunted self-doubt...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
20
 
 
It’s been 28 TV seasons since the United States last knuckled under to an occupying foreign power...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
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Tonight’s episode is timed for Thanksgiving, and asks the separated Sheldon and Amy to get back together, just for the day, in a platonic show of respect. They do – but they also end up showing a little more emotion than that.