Anyone who thinks a minor event like voting is going to shut down the television news industry’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election probably also thinks The Walking Dead is a spinoff from the Grateful Dead...

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BURIED CASES ARE UNCOVERED IN 'DEEP WATER' By David Hinckley

Even by the standards of police dramas, which for obvious reasons like to focus on repulsive crimes, the new import Deep Water touches on something especially abhorrent: the systematic murder of gay men for sport...

2016

Nov

DEEP WATER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Yael Stone, who plays the outrageous and romantically unlucky Lorna on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, stars here in a role that takes her out of her orange jumpsuit and places her on the other side of the thin blue line. In this new TV import set in Sydney, she plays police detective Tori Lustigman, whose latest investigation into a brutal murder leads to a string of killings targeting gay men over decades. Episodes are streamed on the Acorn TV website beginning today.

2016

Nov

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Because of Election Night tomorrow, this week’s “election” on The Voice takes place tonight only, with all 20 remaining contestants performing live, and hoping to move on, thanks to viewer vote, to the Top 12. So far, this has been a year with a strong array of impressive talent, and some of them are bound to shine, as well as falter, in the glare of the live TV spotlight. But also, so far, the two new judges, Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys, have grabbed and used the spotlight shr

2016

Nov

2016 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ELECTION SPECIAL By David Bianculli

Can you be sick of this year’s presidential campaign yet still have an appetite for political satire of the same contentious battle? NBC and Saturday Night Live are betting the answer is yes – and tonight are presenting a prime-time Election Eve special, showcasing the fine work, this season, of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, and Larry David as Bernie Sanders. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters -- and boy, is it nice to be bac

2016

Nov

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Last week, both Samantha Bee and Bill Maher, on their respective satirical current-events series, got to present interviews with President Barack Obama. But Bee isn’t through yet. This week she presents two installments of Full Frontal: this one, which is televised before the election, and a post-mortem wrap-up on Wednesday night.

2016

Nov

THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

Stephen Colbert, like Samantha Bee, is working extra hard this week. Tonight and Wednesday, his editions of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be broadcast live, so his monologues, conversations, sketches and reactions can be as timely as possible. And on Election night itself, he moves to corporate sibling cable network Showtime to present a late-night show that’s not only live, but entirely uncensored. More on that tomorrow… but set your recorders now.

2016

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M*A*S*H MARATHON By David Bianculli

Beginning today, Sundance is devoting part of its schedule to a truly welcome TV retrospective: in-sequence giant helpings of some of the best TV comedies ever made. Sunday from 6 a.m. ET through Tuesday at the same time, Sundance works its way through a marathon showing of the first four seasons of M*A*S*H, the brilliant anti-war war comedy developed for television by Larry Gelbert in 1972. That’s followed, on Tuesday, by heaping helpings of another 1970s TV classic, All in the Family. Co

2016

Nov

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

This is the final pre-election edition for any weekend show dealing with politics, and tonight that refers to at least two noteworthy ones. The first is this team effort by Showtime and Bloomberg Politics to cover the presidential election campaign in weekly documentary bursts, and show it, from the inside as well as the outside, for the exhausting marathon it is. Mark Halperin, John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon – veteran political reporters or strategists – divide and conquer, coveri

2016

Nov

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

The first week of this season’s Walking Dead shows was unremittingly, even controversially, grim and violent. Last week’s episode was, by comparison, almost whimsical, introducing both an ersatz messiah and his uncaged pet tiger. And tonight’s episode changes tone again, focusing on another potentially deadly caged mammal: Daryl (Norman Reedus), captured and carted away by Negan and the Saviors.

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