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2021

Mar

NEW ABC SERIES, 'SOUL OF A NATION,' EXPLORES THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA By Mike Hughes

Soul of a Nation arrives Tuesday on ABC, eluding many of the usual categories...

2021

Mar

2009: NBC'S 'LATE NIGHT' GETS A NEW HOST: JIMMY FALLON By TV WW

On this day in 2009, actor/comedian Jimmy Fallon took the reins of NBC's Late Night...

2021

Mar

1949: 'RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT' BEGINS By TV WW

On this day in 1949, the popular radio series Ripley's Believe It or Not — which was based on the syndicated newspaper column by Robert L. Ripley — made its TV debut on NBC...

2021

Mar

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

CYCLE PREMIERE: This is not the first time The Voice has assembled a quartet of judges, settled them into their plush, pivoting red chairs, and asked them to use their ears, eyes, and musical coaching skills (in that order) to uncover, encourage and shape musical talent. In fact, this week’s opening Blind Auditions mark the 20th time The Voice has done this. Twenty extended contests. Twenty winners. Now I know several of the judges have increased their profiles and

2021

Mar

DEBRIS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is the one new NBC scripted drama series filmed before the pandemic, so it has better production values than most. And this opening installment provides a couple of eye-catching visuals and mysterious, physics-defying anomalies. The explanations for these odd occurrences, in both human behavior and unnatural phenomena, seem to revolve around space junk from an apparent alien spacecraft. But once the plot gets down to Earth, pitting investigative scientists agains

2021

Mar

THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS: HOW 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' AND REAL LIFE INTERSECT By Alex Strachan

Real life intruded briefly on the made-up world of TV drama this past week..

2021

Mar

A NEW ALIEN MYSTERY LANDS ON NBC WITH 'DEBRIS' By David Hinckley

The NBC family has a terrific new supernatural-rooted show, Resident Alien, on its Syfy network. It doesn't do quite as well with Debris...

2021

Mar

NBC TOSSES THE LATEST HAT IN THE SCI-FI RING WITH 'DEBRIS' By Mike Hughes

Debris arrives Monday, with all the advantages...

2021

Feb

78TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS By David Bianculli

The Emmys were uncharacteristically intimate because of adjustments made for the pandemic – especially when the live TV show kept returning to Canada to present another spontaneous party celebration from the Schitt’s Creek crew. How will the Golden Globes handle things? I’m not sure. But with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as co-hosts, expect some entertaining, and perhaps even slightly inebriated, anarchy.

2021

Feb

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

There hasn’t been a week all year, so far in 2021, that hasn’t been almost crushingly newsworthy. And with what the Senate did – and failed to do – this week, and with Donald Trump making the first major political appearance of his post-presidency, and a Trump “statue,” and the post-Cancun Ted Cruz, the streak continues. Tonight, The Circus tries to condense, explain and evaluate it all.

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