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2018
Dec
21
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of Marvel’s Runaways is unveiled tonight on Hulu – and advances the plot to the point where the runaways are, indeed, runaways. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
21
 
 
This is one of those movies that gets better and better every time you see it, and the more time that passes. Period.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
21
 
 
This is not one of those movies that gets better and better every time you see it, and the more time that passes. Not with Mickey Rooney’s stereotypically racist Asian caricature. Period.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
NBC’s time-travel drama Timeless has been given a rare shot to wrap up its short-lived but eventful TV run, and the creators don’t blow it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
In memory of the recently deceased Nancy Wilson, here’s her effortlessly cool and distinctive rendition of “White Christmas,” with an airtight jazz combo backing her...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
It’s another chance to see the finest Christmas TV special ever made. I saw it for the first time when it premiered in 1965. I was 12 years old then, but not too old to fall under its spell. In fact, you’re never too old. Tune in and see – and listen, to the great jazz score by Vince Guaraldi.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
Showing the movie A Christmas Story on TV has been a holiday tradition for a while now – but here’s a “tradition” that began only last year. A year ago, on Dec. 17, 2017, this full-length musical version of A Christmas Story Live really was performed live, as a Fox Christmas special. Today, this year, it’s repeated. And I’m already betting it’ll be repeated next year as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE or SERIES FINALE: Take your pick, because this new NBC Timeless “movie,” actually consisting of two one-hour episodes, serves both functions. It’s a telemovie premiere, because it’s a stand-alone story, called “The Miracle of Christmas.” And it’s a way for this time-travel cult series – which presented its last installment when NBC canceled it in May – to take time, so to speak, to end with a proper finale. Lucy and Wyatt get s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
SEASON FINALE: These shows have been keyed to the holiday season, so the decision to end the series this week, as decisions go, is hardly half-baked.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
20
 
 
Looking a bit ahead, tonight’s new episode is keyed to the New Year – and has Murphy (Candice Bergen) attending a function while worrying about her son, who’s spending the holidays in harm’s way, reporting from a war zone.