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2020
Sep
27
 
 
Okay, John Oliver, the floor is all yours. Run with it…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
26
 
 
Another strong weekend marathon courtesy of Decades – and this one is the longest one yet, occupying every remaining half hour of the weekend, late night and early mornings included, once the marathon begins at noon today. The show in question is The Adventures of Superman, and Decades presents selected episodes from the first six seasons. This first DC Comics adaptation for television (Batman and others already had been serialized for Saturday movie matinees) stars George Reeves
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
26
 
 
Director Milos Forman, whose fabulous films have included One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and Man on the Moon (the story of Andy Kaufman), did another wonderful job with this 1996 movie. It’s the fact-based story of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt’s first-amendment court battle – and Forman was bold enough not just to reposition the misogynist porn publisher as a defender of press freedoms, but to cast his movie biography just as bold
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
26
 
 
Only a handful of authors, including some guy named Shakespeare, rival Jane Austen for performance longevity. And Austen didn't even write plays. She wrote novels...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
26
 
 
On this day in 1960, an estimated 70 million Americans tuned in to watch Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon take part in the first-ever televised presidential debate...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
 
 
On this day in 1997, ER opened its fourth season with a special episode, with the cast of the NBC medical drama performing two live broadcasts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
 
 

Gillian Flynn is now at a blessed stage of her career. "I can make up anything right now," she told the Television Critics Association (TCA) recently. The proof is Utopia, the wildly distinctive series that arrives Friday on Amazon Prime...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This series has a long and unusual history. The story comes from Gillian Flynn, who wrote the bestselling novels Gone Girl and Sharp Objects – which were adapted, respectively, into an outstanding movie and TV miniseries. Before writing her novels, she was a TV critic for Entertainment Weekly – and now she’s serving as a TV series showrunner, by adapting for the U.S. her story Utopia, which previously begat a U.K. adaptat
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: After years of watching old imported seasons of The Great British Baking Show, the U.S., thanks to Netflix, finally is up to date. Beginning tonight, the shows we see here in America are the same ones shown, almost simultaneously, in England. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, since we’re now seeing this British baking competition as new installments are pulled from the oven, we’re no longer getting full seasons at one time. From now on, 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tonight, FX shows the first three installments of a five-part documentary (the remaining episodes arrive next Friday) based on the book by filmmaker Errol Morris. Morris appears in this documentary version, but doesn’t direct it. A Wilderness of Error does, however, present Morris’ basic take on the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted many decades ago of murdering his wife and children in 1970.  And his take isn’t one of abs