DAVID BIANCULLI

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2020
Jul
31
 
 
The Go-Go's set out to show that an all-female band could do all the things an all-male band could do, and they pretty much succeeded. That included making catchy records that became big hits...It also included serious internal friction..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
31
 
 
Gender equality in the workplace is a hot-button topic today. So is the concept of "fake news." Interestingly, they were co-mingled five decades ago in an episode of a beloved sitcom from the '70s that holds up to this day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Oprah Winfrey isn’t letting the pandemic hold her back – at least not from producing and launching a new talk series. The Oprah Conversation, her newest program for Apple TV+, is a weekly series she hosts remotely, but with a way to include what the streaming service calls “audience engagement.” The aim is to spend time with “thought leaders” (another term from the Apple TV+ press release) around the world, and today’s opening
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Well, once again, it’s a premiere in the U.S. (as long as the pandemic keeps going, expect American programmers to reach more deeply, and gratefully, into foreign TV pantries for available inventory). This series, which is quite funny, is a sort of variation on Schitt’s Creek, with a well-to-do woman losing her fortune, and relocating to a strange place as a literal last resort. Except, in Frayed, the strange place is Australia, which is where pam
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
It was inevitable, perhaps, that the ghost of House would come up...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
The age of the plucky female antihero continues to unfold with Frayed, an Australian production that premieres in America on Thursday over HBO Max...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
As the year began, PBS launched a sort of national diary. People could simply send in their stories via video (usually), photos, prose, or, well, whatever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
 
 
This day in 1989 marked the last telecast of The Jim Henson Hour on NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
29
 
 
On this day in 1983, NBC attempted to capitalize on the growing popularity of music videos with the introduction of the late-night show, Friday Night Videos...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
29
 
 
If you want to get lost in the world of Michael Corleone, and the evocative 1970s films directed so moodily and mightily by Francis Ford Coppola, IFC is presenting those two genre classics back to back. Al Pacino plays the young man reluctantly gravitating towards the family business… and away from his eventual wife, played by Diane Keaton.