SERIES PREMIERE: Okay, this show is really, really weird. Which I mean, of course, as a compliment. It’s a bit like another IFC meta series, Documentary Showcase, which claims to be a long-standing TV series and presents closely designed parodies of actual nonfiction films. Sherman’s Showcase does that for a Soul Train type variety and dance show, but also takes an SCTV approach, expanding its parody approach to includes commercials,

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'FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL' VISITS TCA FOR A Q&A By Mike Hughes

LOS ANGELES – Let's officially designate this as the Richard Curtis Summer, crossing most media platforms...

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HERE'S THE STORY OF 'A VERY BRADY RENOVATION' By Roger Catlin

BEVERLY HILLS, Ca. — It takes more than a cheesy reunion movie to get the six original Brady Bunch kids together these days...

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GALAXY QUEST By David Bianculli

TCM is busy concluding its “Out of This World” sci-fi month, but BBC America is not to be left behind on the launch pad. Tonight at 8 ET, it presents a comedy that manages to spoof the entire Star Trek canon and fandom, while itself becoming a strong space-voyage action film. (And this 1999 movie also should get credit for using the same time-shift plot device as some of today’s most popular Marvel Universe franchises, on TV as well as film. Tim Allen and Sigourney We

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CNN DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE By David Bianculli

This is the second set of two-night debates featuring Democratic candidates jockeying for position in the 2020 presidential race. Tonight’s debate, and tomorrow’s, are presented by CNN. Luck of the draw dictates which candidates debate on which evening – and tonight’s finalized lineup includes, for the first time in this campaign cycle, both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke also appear tonight, while current frontr

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND By David Bianculli

On TCM, as part of its latest menu in its month-long “Out of This World” film voyage, the network starts with Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic. You’ll never look at space the same way again. Or mashed potatoes. And what a magnificent, vitally important score by John Williams!

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STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE By David Bianculli

How do you salute sci-fi space films properly without including George Lucas’s 1977 blockbuster? It introduced the franchise, and now is retitled Star Wars: A New Hope. And the answer is, you don’t. So TCM has it… and is showing it tonight. Also shown this evening, as part of the lineup: 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (at 12:45 a.m. ET) and 1976’s Logan’s Run (at 6 a.m. ET).

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NETFLIX’S ‘THE GREAT HACK:’ HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA WAS HARVESTED AND SWUNG THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN By Alex Strachan

Cambridge Analytica, John Oliver noted in a Last Week Tonight monologue last season, is not the Latin, scientific name for John Oliver, sadly. Would that it was...

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EXPERIMENT IN TERROR By David Bianculli

In 1962, director Blake Edwards and composer Henry Mancini teamed for this tense bank-heist drama, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick. Ford plays the good guy, trying to help Remick, who plays a bank employee being forced to steal from her own bank. The mastermind behind the robbery has abducted her younger sister, and threatened to kill her unless the older sister follows instructions. The villain is played by Ross Martin, a few years before he co-starred in The Wild Wild West, and th

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YEARS AND YEARS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: Tonight brings the final installment of Russell T. Davies’ hauntingly memorable futuristic drama (and really: wasn’t the body-strewn beach scene one of the most gripping TV scenes yet of this TV season?). In the drama, the episode begins in the year 2029 – only a decade from now. But given what’s happened to the characters, and in politics, it seems a lot longer. And a lot scarier.

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