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2020
Aug
6
 
 
Last week, at the last minute, Oprah Winfrey and company swapped the content of their premiere installment in this new pandemic-era Winfrey talk show. Therefore, the show I wrote about last week actually is presented tonight, featuring How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
6
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: CBS All Access already has launched two Star Trek spinoff series as exclusives: Star Trek: Discovery and the more recent Star Trek: Picard, both of which are live-action dramas that are still running. Now comes a third new franchise entry, but Star Trek: Below Decks is different. It’s animated, not live action. And it’s a comedy, from Mike McMahan of Rick and Morty. The concept is to take the kind of stories that have
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
6
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Australian Tim Minchin is a stand-up comic, an actor, and a composer. As an actor, U,S. audiences might remember him as Atticus in Californication. As a composer, he wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical version of Groundhog Day. And now, in this new series import, he’s the star and creator, and one of the writers and directors, of Upright, in which a directionless young man goes on an extensive Australian road trip, aiming to tr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
6
 
 
Today’s subject on TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” is Burt Lancaster, which makes today’s 24-hour film marathon especially rich. Pay special attention to 1964’s Seven Days in May at 3:15 p.m. ET, 1960’s Elmer Gantry at 8 p.m. ET, and 1962’s The Birdman of Alcatraz at 10:45 p.m. ET. And a few wonderful movies show up late, so set your recorders. There’s 1953’s From Here to Eternity at 1:30 a.m. ET,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
5
 
 
This new episode of Nova, called “Rise of the Mammals,” is well timed. If the production crew hurries, it might get a front-row ticket to the possible, pandemic sequel: “Fall of the Mammals.” Well, some of us, at least. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
5
 
 
Next week, after seven seasons, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. calls it quits, presenting a final episode that was planned, written and filmed before the start of the pandemic. So unlike several TV series caught short by the shutdown, this Marvel series is heading just where it intended. Tonight’s episode, starting with many members of the squad in mortal danger, should do what most of this year’s S.H.I.E.LD. episodes have done – and provide surprises
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
5
 
 
Two mystery shows are arriving now, just when we really need some fresh, scripted shows...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
5
 
 
Storm chasing, it seems, just isn't fair. The storm never obeys borders; the chasers have to...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
5
 
 
On this day in 1965, CBS Evening News broadcast a report by correspondent Morley Safer that sent shockwaves across the U.S. and infuriated then-president Lyndon Johnson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
4
 
 
On this day in 1996, Olympians and spectators gathered in the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the close of the "Centennial Olympics" in Atlanta, Georgia — a celebration filled with a range of popular American music...