HBO has timed it so that its Sunday series are taking a break – but Showtime is soldiering on through the holiday pre-season, with fresh episodes tonight of all three of its Sunday shows. First up: another episode of Ray Donovan that simultaneously explores past and present, dramatizing not only Ray’s current problems, but more details about a key event many decades ago.

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SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) isn’t exactly the poster boy for anything positive – but in this week’s episode, because of the rewards being dangled, he’s trying to be…

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MR. ROBOT By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: Rami Malek, after winning an Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, completes his obligation to the USA drama series that launched him, by starring in tonight’s two-hour series finale of Mr. Robot. Last week’s episode ended with what looked like wide-scale thermonuclear annihilation – but this series, like Legion, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Watchmen, has begun dealing in so many alternate rea

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THE L WORD: GENERATION Q By David Bianculli

One of the most compelling and mysterious characters from the original series The L Word was Shane, played by Katherine Moennig. Moennig just left Ray Donovan, where she played the role of Ray’s private eye assistant Lena, to co-star on this other Showtime drama, a modern sequel to The L Word. And tonight, much of the episode focuses on Shane, whom Moennig is portraying once again. "Shane! Come back, Shane!" And she has...

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'BOB (HEARTS) ABISHOLA' IS A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE THIS SEASON – ITS FIRST By Mike Hughes

It's time for a mid-course correction. When the season started, I picked NBC's Perfect Harmony as the best new situation comedy...but it's no match for my new No. 1 – CBS' Bob (Hearts) Abishola…

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Don’t miss this. The guest host, for this final fresh SNL of 2019, is Eddie Murphy, who used to be a series repertory company member from 1980-84. Later that same year, after he left to do movies after almost singlehandedly saving the Saturday Night Live franchise, he returned, victoriously, as guest host. Once. In December 1984. And that’s it. Murphy has stayed away from the show ever since, except for showing up for the program’s 40th anniversary prim

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'THE WITCHER' FITS THE GRIM FANTASY MOLD By David Hinckley

Someday someone is going to explain to me why fantasy kingdoms always seem to be located in cold, dark, bleak medieval woodlands teeming with monsters...

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I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

The colorized I Love Lucy episodes have become a CBS holiday tradition – along with the similarly multihued episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which this year, sadly, are not part of the mix. But this year, we get, as usual, two Lucy episodes: the now annually repeated “The Christmas Episode” from 1956, as well as a newly colorized treat. It’s another I Love Lucy from 1956, this one called “Paris at Last,” which has Luc

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CELEBRATING MARVEL'S STAN LEE By David Bianculli

ABC, owned by Disney, has many reasons to celebrate Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee, whose movie and TV offshoots are, similarly, now owned by Disney. But here’s a prime-time special looking at the cultural impact of the man and his comics empire – and if you’re old enough to remember when his monthly Marvel Comics columns bestowed occasional No-Prizes, consider yourself a 21st-century recipient.

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THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include a typically, deliriously different gaggle of celebrities: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Hudson, Hugh Grant, and Dame Judi Dench.

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