Thursday’s opening night game of the 2020 pro football season was an indication of things to come this year. The fans in attendance are capped at a small percentage of stadium capacity, the announcers work without having to deal with a lot of crowd noise, and the contact on the field – both the hard hits and the celebrations after a good play – leads invariably to thoughts of COVID-19 transmission. This is the first Sunday of this year’s NFL season, so see for yourself. G

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Sep

60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

Scott Pelley interviews Bob Woodward about Woodward’s latest book, and bombshell, in which he recorded President Donald Trump for nine hours of total interview sessions – and already has made headlines for some of the things Trump told him. It’s the second President for whom Woodward’s reporting has dealt with accusations and impeachment proceedings, smoking-gun audiotape recordings, and led to the key question, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?

2020

Sep

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

How widespread has the impact of the Bob Woodward interview tapes with President Donald Trump been this week? The reporters on The Circus will tell you, by tracking the reactions, inside and outside the Beltway.

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Sep

CARMEN JONES By David Bianculli

Bizet’s opera Carmen comes to the big screen in this 1954 adaptation, which updates the setting to the lead-up to the Korean War – and adapts the sultry story by filling it with an all-Black cast. The offstage collaborators include an unlikely duo: director Otto Preminger and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote new lyrics to some of Bizet’s music. But on screen, wow: Dorothy Dandridge stars in the title role, as the siren who ensnares most of the men around her,

2020

Sep

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY By David Bianculli

You know that saying about walking in another person’s shoes? Tonight, thanks to a magic spell, Ruby (Wunmi Wosaku) gets to do just that.

2020

Sep

WE HUNT TOGETHER By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: This is the sixth and final episode of this crime story and character study, involving two couples (coincidentally, both pair a Black man with a white woman) – and each pair has an equal claim to the phrase in the title. One couple hunts people to kill; the other couple is hunting the killers. And tonight, the latter catches up to the former. But then what?

2020

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'VAN DER VALK,' THE 2020 VERSION, ARRIVES ON PBS By Mike Hughes

Piet Van der Valk is sort of your standard TV (or movie) detective. But there are two things that are unusual about him...

2020

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For months, actors were simply in limbo. "People used to say show-business was Depression-proof," Bette Midler told the Television Critics Association (TCA) recently. "In the Depression, the movies were the only things that survived."...

2020

Sep

IF YOU'RE FRUSTRATED WITH THE STATE OF THE U.S. RIGHT NOW, YOU'LL BE SOOTHED BY 'COASTAL ELITES' By David Hinckley

In the middle of America, even in places that don't love Donald Trump, the term "coastal elites" is rarely spoken in admiration...

2020

Sep

N.Y.P.D. MARATHON By David Bianculli

I don’t know why Decades has decided to go on such a strong run of weekend marathons of late – but please, Decades, keep them coming. From noon ET today for the rest of the weekend, Decades is filling the weekend with episodes of the little-televised, not-currently-streaming 1967-69 ABC series N.Y.P.D. This isn’t the 1990s David Milch cop show, NYPD Blue. It’s a TV rarity in more ways than one: a half-hour drama series, shot mostly on location in and a

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