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2018
Aug
6
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The most newsworthy thing about this new AMC series is that one of its executive producers is Paul Giamatti. The next most newsworthy thing is that AMC has opted to release its entire Season 1 run of 10 episodes today, but only on its streaming service, AMC Premiere – which is available to Comcast Xfinity and YouTube TV subscribers for an additional charge of $4.99 monthly. The regular cable AMC network will roll out the show on a weekly basis – and for Lodge 49, bin
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert kick’s it 80s-style with this look at what happens when courtroom illustrations from the Paul Manafort tax fraud trial come to life via the original sketch-romance from the “Take On Me”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
PBS has never pushed the imported Tunnel series very hard, perhaps because its three seasons have stretched over six years or maybe because it’s always been shrouded in a melancholy darkness...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Things were already getting squirrelly a week into the TV Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
Tonight’s new installment of The 2000s is called The Financial Crisis, and it’s an episode to watch very, very closely, while remembering George Santayana’s warning that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And that’s not just referring to the inevitable repeat showings of this hour on CNN.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
Part 5. Part of this episode includes some unforgettably dramatic sex scenes, with more context and subtext than such scenes usually are given. But another part includes the very odd spectacle of the town’s young women, including Amma, take part in a poetic-license “recreation” of a Confederate-era story (pictured) as creepily sexist and subversive as anything in The Handmaid’s Tale. And the entire festival is held on the grounds of Adora’s plantation-style estate,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
This new CNN History of Comedy installment is called Gone Too Soon, and talks about the comedians who died young enough to have fans wondering what they might have said and done in the years and decades to come. Surely, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams will be part of this hour – as will one late comic, already announced as part of the program, the lesser-known Mitch Hedberg (pictured), whose memorable one-liners included: “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
In one of the episodes that remain for Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest disguised-correspondent prank exercise, among his targets is Sarah Palin, whom he interviewed in the guise of one of his new show’s alter ego characters, Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D. (pictured). Palin already has complained, charging that Cohen duped her by pretending to be a wounded military veteran. Cohen has countered that his Ruddick character was in a motorized scooter (not, as Palin recounted, a wheelchair), an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
5
 
 
What news do you most hope John Oliver will decide to cover tonight in his weekly recap? For me, it’s LeBron James (pictured)… fingers crossed.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
4
 
 
Writer-director Martin McDonagh, whose mastery of small-town characters and conflicts were established indisputably with 2008's In Bruges, presents this new 2017 movie, starring the fabulous Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman grieving over the unsolved murder of her daughter. She rents the titular Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and begins plastering them with questions and taunts aimed at the local police, demanding they do more to advance their daughter’s case. Woody Harrels