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2020
Jul
15
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Nick Mohammed, who created this comedy series, co-stars as a British intelligence gatherer whom is about the only spy in his organization who’s enthused by the arrival of an American counterpart as a sort of cultural information exchange program. David Schwimmer from Friends plays the new arrival as a very ugly American – as pompous, acerbic and misguidedly self-satisfied as a better-dressed Basil Fawlty – and plays against the British sensibility alm
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
15
 
 
Time is not on the side of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, whose time-traveling ship is malfunctioning, and sending them towards imminent doom. The best hope of saving the team, and the world, and universe this time around? Yo-Yo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) and May (Ming-Na Wen) – which sounds like a 1970s singing duo with a TV variety show. Hey, hey, hey, it’s Yo-Yo and May!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
15
 
 
For TV viewers, this is now the clash of the titans. On Wednesday, the Peacock streaming service debuts, harnessing the power of NBC, Universal, and beyond...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
15
 
 
NBC's new Peacock service, which officially launches Wednesday, makes a smart bet by including the British series The Capture in its opening-day lineup...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
15
 
 
It's just as hard to create a Utopian community on TV, apparently, as it is in real life. In both cases, the problem stems from the inconvenient and annoying fact that even Utopian communities need to include people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
The new HBO documentary Showbiz Kids starts by telling us that 20,000 children audition each year for entertainment gigs – TV, movies, commercials, and so on. About 95% get no offers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
In 1995, Martin Scorsese made a miniseries documentary about his love of U.S. cinema, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, that was amazingly passionate and inspirational. (For a stretch, my son went to sleep every night working his way through the VHS tapes.) Four years later, Scorsese did a sequel, My Voyage to Italy, that was just as entertaining and educational a personal tour through a country’s cinematic history. And Scorsese’s do
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
It’s been nearly two decades since the U.S. led the invasion of Iraq – but seldom have documentarians heard from the history and aftermath of that war from that country’s own citizens. Directed by James Bluemel, Once Upon a Time in Iraq sets out to do precisely that. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Alex Winter, a former child actor himself, directs this documentary, which interviews former child actors about their experiences, good and bad, as actors on stage, screen and TV. The opening credits, which intersperse images of the stars on the sidewalk of Hollywood Boulevard with images of those same childhood stars (Mickey Rooney! Judy Garland! Shirley Temple!), are enough to hook you. And the rest, while never becoming sordid or taking advantage of its interview subject
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
On this day in 1990, mega-popular radio shock jock (and current, for now, America's Got Talent judge) Howard Stern introduced his Saturday night show The Howard Stern Show on WWOR-TV...