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2018
Aug
23
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. This two-part special on the Royal Family, concluding tonight, comes not from ABC News, but from the folks behind People magazine. Expect a commensurate level of intellectual and contextual depth – like one of those puffy pastries on The Great British Baking Show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
The pace is deliberate at best, and in full-dawdle at times, as Season 2 of the Audience network’s Mr. Mercedes begins just a bit before the first one left off...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 1 of 2. This four-hour documentary, concluding tomorrow night on ABC, comes not from the network’s news division, but as a co-production by People magazine and Four M Studios (the recently rebranded TV production arm of Time Inc.). So, essentially, it’s People, so expect that level of depth, which isn’t much. But ABC might as well devote four hours of valuable prime-time real estate to a look at Britain’s Royal Family – because really, thi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
Cameron Crowe’s 2000 semi-autobiographical movie, about his early days as an underage rock journalist for Rolling Stone, is a well-crafted, completely delightful movie, with set-piece scenes that include proof of the infectious joy of rock ’n’ roll, set on a tour bus to an impromptu singalong to Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer.” There are plenty of great performances leavened into this mix that worth savoring again and again, including Philip Seymour Hoffman’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Last year’s first season of Mr. Mercedes would seem to have completed the story it set out to tell. Based on the Stephen King novel, it was a very gripping miniseries about a retired detective named Bill Hodges, played by Brendan Gleeson, haunted by a crime he had been unable to solve – the case of a deranged man who used a stolen Mercedes to plow into a crowd of people lined up to apply at a job recruitment fair. That man, Brady Hartsfield, played by Harry Treadaway
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
There are certain weeks where comedy recaps of real-life news can seem almost therapeutic. This is one of them, and of the weekly shows doing such duty – by Bill Maher, John Oliver and Samantha Bee – Bee gets to approach the plate and swing first.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
 
 
At the end of the first season of Mr. Mercedes, psychotic mass murderer Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway) almost died. That’s the almost good news as Season 2 of Mr. Mercedes launches...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
21
 
 
Back in the golden age of advertising jingles, when every television commercial seemingly strove for a catchy tune that would force viewers to start involuntarily humming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
21
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: There’s only really one truly delightful new offering on TV tonight – but it’s one that covers the entire history of television, and salutes an actress who has been there from the start, and never left. The subject of tonight’s PBS biography is Betty White, whose career includes the sitcoms Life with Elizabeth in the early 1950s (pictured) and Hot in Cleveland some 60 years later – and, in between, makes room for everything from regular roles on Th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
20
 
 

When James Corden premiered his “Carpool Karaoke” segment featuring Paul McCartney on his CBS Late Late Show in June, it was much longer than usual – and much more emotional. Tonight at 8 ET, in a prime-time special, it’s even longer…