MOVIE PREMIERE: Cristin Milioti, in the “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror, played a woman suddenly thrust into an unreal world from which there seemed to be no escape. Here comes a reset of sorts: Palm Springs stars Andy Samberg as a man caught in a Groundhog Day loop on the day of a friend’s wedding, and Milioti plays the bride’s maid of honor, who gets pulled into the seemingly endless cycle of reliving the same day. As with Grou

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THE OLD GUARD By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Based on the graphic novel series, this new Netflix movie stars Charlize Theron as the leader of a small band of immortal warriors who spend century after century fighting the good fights without being captured or identified. In this movie-length adaptation of the comic-book series, two major things happen: The group discovers a potential new member, and outsiders potentially discover all of them…

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DISNEY CHANNEL SUMMER SING-ALONG By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Earlier variations on this theme were staged and presented by ABC, which, of course, is owned by Disney. This new edition, pegged to summer, is televised by Disney Channel. ABC, Disney Channel, Disney+ -- wherever you turn these days, it’s a Mickey Mouse operation.

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CARL REINER TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

Decades presents yet another of TV’s tributes to Carl Reiner, but this one’s a doozy. It begins with an installment of The Dick Cavett Show in which Reiner is the guest. Then, at 9:30 p.m. ET, presents Head of the Family (pictured), the unsold 1960 pilot written by and starring Reiner – which, when completely recast but still telling the story of TV writer Rob Petrie, became the massively successful The Dick Van Dyke Show. And then, at 10 p.m.

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'LITTLE VOICE' HAS A FAMILIAR BUT ENTERTAINING THEME WITH BEAUTIFUL SONGS BY SARA BAREILLES By David Hinckley

"Girl tackles the big city" has been a theme of dramas since forever, so it's no surprise that it has quietly emerged as a consistently interesting subgenre in our current ocean of TV programming...

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1950: NBC INTRODUCES THE TV VERSION OF 'YOUR HIT PARADE' By David Bianculli

NBC launched the television version of Your Hit Parade on this day in 1950...

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1999: FOOD NETWORK ADDS 'IRON CHEF' By TV WW

This day in 1999 marked the Food Network premiere of the original Iron Chef...

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EXPECTING AMY By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Back in May, Amy Schumer made a TV show, squirreled away in her family farmhouse with her chef husband Chris Fischer. It was refreshingly low-key, filmed by a few static cameras and by their nanny/assistant, who operated the one handheld camera, usually while the couple’s son, Gene, is napping). That was the Food Network’s Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, a charming little cooking show that recently was renewed for a second season. Before that, a

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THE SEVENTH SEAL By David Bianculli

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directed this film in 1957, and its unforgettable, almost instantly iconic plot and images – about a medieval knight who plays chess with Death – did as much as Italy’s Federico Fellini to launch the international arthouse cinema movement. Woody Allen had great fun making fun of The Seventh Seal in Love and Death and elsewhere, but adored Bergman and the film. It’s always worth a look, and even more so right now, becaus

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DAYS OF HEAVEN By David Bianculli

Another beautifully photographed film, this 1978 movie also features a plague – of locusts. It’s set on a Texas farm shortly before WWI, and is the second feature film directed by Terrence Malick, who had made the impeccably paced Badlands five years before. Days Of Heaven also marks the first major starring role by Richard Gere, and features a beautiful score by the late Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at age 91. The beautiful images were captured by the great c

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