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2020
Sep
25
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Only one of tonight’s virtual guests needs be mentioned to warrant a tune-in: Bernie Sanders.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
RE-EXAMINING A DECADES-OLD TRIPLE MURDER: 'A WILDERNESS OF ERROR' By Mike Hughes
 
 
Like many teenagers, Marc Smerling wanted to see a horror film. But the movie was sold out. Instead, he saw The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris' distinctive, 1988 documentary about a murder case. Now, decades later, he's working with that filmmaker...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
25
'TEHRAN,' A TAUT SPY THRILLER, DEBUTS ON APPLE TV+ By David Hinckley
 
 
A new Apple TV+ series gives us a brave young woman undertaking a dangerous espionage mission in the snakepit of the Middle East. Sorry, hoss, Carrie Mathisen isn't back. She's retired...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
24
AGENTS OF CHAOS By David Bianculli
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. Last night’s Part 1 of Alex Gibney’s two-part Agents of Chaos documentary was an exhaustive, exhausting, ultimately depressing examination of the rise and impact of Russian “troll farms.” Last night’s installment began its narrative back in the early 2010s, when Russia sought, somewhat successfully, to spin the internal and external reactions to the attempted uprising in Ukraine. Yesterday’s two-hour installment cov
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
24
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Sort of. Actually, this Star Trek spinoff series premiered back in 2017, when CBS All Access produced and presented it as the big-ticket offering on its new paid subscription streaming service. And now it arrives as a weekly offering on CBS, the free broadcast network, beginning with tonight’s premiere episode of Season 1. So if this were Jeopardy, and the answer were, “Three years,” the correct question would be: “How long does it tak
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
24
THE HOSPITAL By David Bianculli
 
 
Diana Rigg died earlier this month, but TCM already, by coincidence, has this 1971 black comedy on its schedule. Rigg co-stars with George C. Scott in The Hospital, a satire of the health care system, written by Paddy Chayefsky five years before he similarly eviscerated network TV in his superb 1976  movie satire, Network.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
24
1968: THE CLOCK STARTS TICKING FOR CBS' '60 MINUTES' By TV WW
 
 
Today in 1968, CBS debuted the news magazine 60 Minutes, one of the most honored and successful programs in television history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
23
1962: ABC INTRODUCES ITS FIRST COLOR SERIES, 'THE JETSONS' By TV WW
 
 
In 1962, viewers met George Jetson (and his family) when ABC launched the animated space-age series, The Jetsons...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
23
AGENTS OF CHAOS By David Bianculli
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 1 of 2. Premiering tonight and concluding tomorrow, Agent of Chaos is a two-part study asking if the Russians have conspired, in 2016 and again currently, to interfere in, and attempt to influence, our national presidential elections. The answer: Da! Da! And I’m not talking about an intentionally absurd art movement.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
23
'ENOLA HOLMES' FINALLY ARRIVES ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
It would almost require Sherlock Holmes to track the path by which Enola Holmes wound its way to television. Or on second thought, forget Sherlock...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley