DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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MONIQUE NAZARETH

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GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2019
Jun
25
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Thirty years ago, a demonstration from Chinese students seeking democratic reforms from their Communist government leaders led to a seven-week occupation of Tiananmen Square in the central heart of China. Then, tragically, a bloodbath, with the Chinese Army surrounding and invading the city and opposing the protesters with troops, guns, and tanks. Three decades later, this documentary establishes the context, explains the calls for reform, presents news and amateur footage
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
25
 
 
Let’s see. On Sunday, the first day of this four-day live TV look at the flora and fauna of Yellowstone National Park, I made a geyser pun. Yesterday, continuing the tradition, I made a bear joke. But tonight? The last thing I want to do is buffalo you…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
25
 
 
Tonight’s installment of Drunk History tells, in inebriated form, the story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s relocation to the United States, when they claimed New York City as their home – and were almost deported by J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and a resentful U.S. government. The real John and Yoko Ono Lennon are shown here; tune in tonight to learn who plays them, in this televised, inebriated ballad of John and Yoko.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
25
 
 

Stop and think about the weddings you've attended. Now do a calculation: In what percentage did the bride and groom say "I do" and become married? My own figure is 100 percent, but I might run with a dull crowd...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
25
 
 
Back when people watched TV the old-fashioned way, the term "binge-watching" hadn’t become part of the public lexicon yet. This was ages ago, mind you — all the way back in 2014...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
24
 
 
Two games are played today in the knockout stage of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. The United States team takes on Spain at noon ET, with the loser out of the tournament, and the winner advancing to face France on Friday. Then, at 3 p.m. ET, comes another Round of 16 game featuring a squad from North America: Canada, facing Sweden. Both games are televised live on Fox Sports 1.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
24
 
 
Killing Eve, the fabulous BBC America series created by Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is based on a highly unusual premise and dynamic. A female investigator (played by Sandra Oh) becomes obsessed with tracking down a woman (played by Jodie Comer) who has left several bodies in her wake around the globe, and trying to pin her to those murders – while, at the same time, becoming increasingly fascinated by and emotionally attracted to her. Two female leads &nd
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
24
 
 
In this era, when so much is available to watch on streaming TV and elsewhere yet so little from previous decades is seen, the appearance of a silent film – in prime time, on high-profile TCM – warms my heart. Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, TCM presents The Kid, a 1921 film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, who also stars. He plays his iconic character of The Tramp, who in this full-length film – Chaplin’s first, after a string of shorts – finds an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
24
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This six-part miniseries comes from Russell T. Davies, who put the Why back into Doctor Who. So you know Years and Years will be smart, about its characters and plots as well as its technology. And it is. It’s the first TV show that plays like Black Mirror since… well, since Black Mirror. And its premise is brilliantly simple, as well as simply brilliant: It takes an extended, This Is Us-type family (based, in this ca
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
24
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the start of the third and final season of Noah Hawley’s breathtakingly original take on a slender slice of the Marvel Comics universe. To describe it at all is to risk falling down a rabbit hole – and that’s something to be avoided, even though Lewis Carroll’s Alice is a primary inspiration here (in a later episode this season, there’s even a tea party, featuring one of the primary characters as an obviously Mad Hatter). In my rev