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2019
Sep
27
 
 
This is the sort of news week that makes a show like this required viewing. And tonight, Maher has increased the potency even more by scheduling two of his most reliably talkative and provocative guests: author Salman Rushdie and former Massachusetts Democratic Congressional Representative Barney Frank.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
27
 
 
Before a new season – Norton’s 26th! – begins next week, Norton and BBC America present this fast-moving retrospective of the season just past. Expect to laugh. A lot.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
Doc Martin has returned. Finally. And pretty much nothing has changed. Whew...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
For a good chunk of Martin Clunes' year, the transformation is total...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
To reach the Good Place in the afterlife, one should not behave in cruel and aberrant ways during one's life on Earth...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
The new CBS supernatural crime drama Evil isn't the first TV series to bet that the possible existence of inexplicable, mysterious creatures can lay the foundation for a good story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
This is as far as we get into TCM’s Bond issues – a.k.a., its Thursday-in-September foray through James Bond’s half-century of 007 movies, which began with Sean Connery in the 1960s. Tonight’s lineup brings the franchise, and the character, to the end of the previous century. The evening begins at 8 ET with 1987’s The Living Daylights (the first of two movies tonight starring Timothy Dalton as British secret agent James Bond), and ends at 5:30 a.m. ET with
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In a just and fair awards-show world, Walton Goggins would have won at least two or three Emmys by now, all for his superlative work on FX drama series: as a supporting actor for portraying Shane Vendrell on The Shield and Boyd Crowder on Justified, and as a guest actor for his recurring role as transgendered Venus Van Dam on Sons of Anarchy. He’s also co-starred in HBO comedies, The Righteous Gemstones andVice Principals, but I
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Bradley Whitford, finding new shades of character to explore since shining in The West Wing, has made a specialty of late playing mercurial, mysterious men in both The Handmaid’s Tale and the Jordan Peele movie Get Out. But here, he lightens up, playing a washed-up former Princeton music professor who, for rather petty reasons, decides to help a local vocal small-town choral outfit square off against a dominant singing adversary. Whitford is d
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
26
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: One of broadcast TV’s best and most inventive series begins its fourth and final season tonight – and once again, the new season brings with it a new set of rules, constructs and realities… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.