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BIOGRAPHY: "I WANT MY MTV" By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: It was August 1, 1981, when a new cable channel called MTV launched – and took the “launch” designation seriously, by building its opening campaign around images related to a manned space launch to the moon. The MTV flag was “planted” on the moon with colorfully animated variations, and to this day, the MTV Video Music Awards handed out are in the shape of flag-wielding “moon men.” I was a TV critic in Akron, Ohio, then, watching an

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HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: With the potential start of the potentially infected 2020 NFL pro football season just around the corner, HBO presents the season finale of its annual preseason sports documentary, Hard Knocks. It’s a season unlike any other, with the two Los Angeles teams, the Rams and the Chargers, struggling to cope with preparing for play while playing it safe from transmitting COVID-19. And last week, even those concerns were dwarfed by something else very significant that was

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HAVE PREQUELS LIVED UP TO THEIR HYPE? By David Hinckley

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1966: 'STAR TREK' LAUNCHES ON NBC By TV WW

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P.O.V.: "PORTRAITS AND DREAMS" By David Bianculli

Elizabeth Barret and photographer Wendy Ewald collaborated on this new edition of P.O.V., which tells her story of getting others to tell their stories – and what a story it is. In the 1970s, she taught elementary school at three schools in Letcher County, Kentucky, and armed her young students with cameras, dispatching them with orders to photograph themselves and their rural and mostly poor Appalachian homes, communities and lifestyles. A decade later, Ewald published

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BIG CAT WEEK: NATGEO WILD'S 'JADE EYED LEOPARD' A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH By Alex Strachan

On the face of it, National Geographic's annual Big Cat Week...sounds as if it was designed to cash in on the success of rival Discovery's better-known, long-running Shark Week. It's an easy assumption to make, but it would be wrong...

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DESPITE THE MOVIE THEATER BEING YOUR HOME, 'MULAN' IS STILL WORTH THE SCREEN TIME By Mike Hughes

I just remembered why I love movies – the big, sweeping kind that fills the screen and fill your eyes and ears and thoughts. I also found that I miss seeing them in their natural habitat...

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