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1993: FEMALE SPORTSCASTER GAYLE GARDNER PRESENTS MLB PLAY-BY-PLAY By TV WW

On this day in 1993, female sportscaster Gayle Gardner became the first woman to present televised play-by-play for a Major League baseball game...

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2007: PAULA ZAHN LEAVES CNN By TV WW

This day in 2007 marked the last telecast of CNN's prime-time news program, Paula Zahn Now, and the anchor's final day with the cable news channel...

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HISTORY CHANNEL RECALLS THE NUCLEAR STRIKES AGAINST JAPAN THAT ENDED WORLD WAR II By David Hinckley

Seventy-five years ago next Thursday, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States B-29 Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ended World War II, and started a moral debate...

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THE ODD COUPLE MARATHON By David Bianculli

I promised more details of today’s portion of the Odd Couple marathon on Decades, and here’s the biggest thing you have to know: Tune in at 4:30 p.m. ET, because that’s when Decades televises the 1972 “Password” episode of The Odd Couple. It’s hilariously funny, and Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Password host Allen Ludden and his wife, Betty White, all have great bits of business to do while playing a round of that classic game show

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PERRY MASON By David Bianculli

Things are winding down for HBO’s Sunday night series. For Perry Mason, this is Episode 7 out of eight installments – and the episode in which Perry, played by Matthew Rhys, gets to flex his just-developing courtroom muscles in the art of cross-examination.

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DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES FINALE: Last week’s installment of this HBO documentary series showed how, after the unexpected death of Michelle McNamara, her husband Patton Oswalt, and her friends and colleagues, kept both her book and her criminal investigations alive. Tonight, we witness what McNamara herself did not live to see: authorities using DNA evidence to identify and arrest, after so many decades, the Golden State Killer, who had assaulted and killed so many victims while evading captu

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

I may as well just start reprinting the same sentences every Sunday here. What a week. Please, John Oliver, explain it to me, get me through it – and, if you can, make me laugh in the process.

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So it’s August now. Another month of pandemic-imposed confinement. Sigh. Silver linings are hard to come by, but here’s one bright coat on our cumulative coronavirus cumulus: Starting today, and for the entirety of August, TCM presents its annual “Summer Under the Stars” celebration, filling each day with the work of one specific actor or actress. This year’s festival begins with Barbra Stanwyck, and watching several of her movies in a row is a great way to witness,

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THE ODD COUPLE MARATHON By David Bianculli

Neil Simon’s brilliantly funny play The Odd Couple opened on Broadway in 1965, starring Walter Matthau as slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison and Art Carney as his fussy temporary roommate, Felix Ungar. It was a smash hit that ran for two years – and after it closed, in 1968, Matthau reprised his stage role in a movie version, opposite Jack Lemmon as Felix. Both versions were comedy brilliance, so there was little chance to hope, when ABC mounted a sitcom adaptation for tel

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