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2020
Aug
14
 
 
Amid the focus on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a new documentary pivots slightly to recount the Pacific war that set the stage for that stark moment...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
13
 
 
This week’s installments of NBC Nightly News have featured Lester Holt and company paying special attention to the topic of coronavirus in the classroom – the concerns and methods regarding repopulating classrooms, from kindergarten on up, as COVID-related cases and deaths are spiking. Tonight, NBC repurposes and expands upon those reports in this one-hour prime-time special. If you watch, you get extra credit. Especially since you have no choice but to watch remotely.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
13
 
 
This 1988 fantasy movie is such a nice, happy film, with such wonderful performances by Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins, that it’s worth seeking out during these increasingly depressing times. It all revolves around a magical, mechanical fortune teller – who, younger readers should be informed, long predated the similarly stiff prognosticator from those Liberty Mutual TV commercials.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
13
 
 
On this day in 1997, Comedy Central introduced four unforgettable third-graders: Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny, from a snowy Colorado mountain town called South Park...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
12
 
 
This day in 1972 marked the last telecast of The Ken Berry "Wow" Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
12
 
 
SERIES FINALE: If you’ve been watching this seventh and final season of ABC’s well-made Marvel series, take note: tonight is the finale. And take another note, because the remaining two episodes are televised tonight as a double feature, so the action, and the program, begins an hour earlier than usual. And ends as scheduled – but ends for good, with the S.H.I.E.L.D. squad teaming up for one final mission, to prevent their futures from being erased. But actually, isn’t th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
12
 
 
The Australian dramedy Five Bedrooms starts with a premise that seems so lazy you want to wave your hand and change the channel. But then it pulls the insidious trick of creating internal drama intriguing enough that you want to keep watching it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
12
 
 
For fantasy fans, this is a time of plenty. Most movie theaters may be closed, but our TV sets and computers have big stories, big ideas and, especially, big budgets...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
11
 
 
Tonight’s Frontline comprises two short documentaries. The title film, Love, Life, & the Virus, tells a story that’s almost too horrific to complicate: A woman is due to give birth soon when she, her husband and older son all become infected with COVID. She ends up giving birth on a ventilator and spending weeks in a coma, awakening to learn the fate of her newborn baby. Nicest of all Spoiler Alerts: Because she and her family were isolated while fighting to r
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 15 premiere of this HBO Sports series, which documents the efforts of a particular pro football team to prepare for a new season of play. This season, of course, is unprecedented – and no one knows, before it begins, whether it’ll actually conclude. Or even start. But that makes this a particularly important football season to document, and Hard Knocks is doing it by following the decisions and actions of two Los Angeles teams: the Rams a