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2020
Jul
9
 
 
Cartoon characters have always been a breeze to work with. They don't age or ache or retire, and now they don't get COVID...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
9
 
 
It looks as though the COVID-19 quarantine will continue driving us all to distraction for longer than we could ever have imagined just a few months ago. Fortunately, there are more compelling television programs to watch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
8
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series, which it says was “inspired by actual events,” takes four disparate stories, following four different protagonists, and sends them on a collision course. Instead of parallel lines that never meet, they’re story threads that are destined to collide, intertwine, and eventually twist around each other like a braid. It’s set in Australia, but the politics, class differences, immigration issues and other aspects are universal. Cate Bla
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
8
 
 
Mary Chase won a Pulitzer for her whimsical play about a large, invisible rabbit, which was a Hamilton-size hit in its day: It premiered on Broadway during WWII, in 1944, and ran for five years, until 1949. When the play closed, this movie version was made and released in 1950, with Chase writing the screenplay adaptation of her own stage comedy. But while Josephine Hill reprised her role as Veta Louise Simmons, the actor starring as the man who claimed Harvey as a friend, Frank Fay, w
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
8
 
 
Last week’s episode ended with a time jump, but not eveyone was on the S.H.I.E.L.D. plane when it jumped. Mack (Henry Simmons) was stranded in 1982 when the rest of the agents moved forward in time – and so was Deke (Jeff Ward). Which goes a long way towards explaining the title of tonight’s Eighties-set episode, “The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
8
 
 
This day in 1982 marked the last telecast of Police Squad!...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
7
 
 
On this day in 2009, cable's Sci Fi Channel changed its name to Syfy, and launched the series Warehouse 13...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
7
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: I’m not saying this is a good movie, necessarily – I haven’t seen it yet, only the promo reel – but it sure is odd enough to stand out. Premiering today as a Movie on Demand offering, it’s about a gathering of Elvis impersonators, one of whom may be an alien from outer space. But the weirdness of this film doesn’t stop there: The man playing CIA agent Townsend is someone known not as an actor, but as a former White House aide. Specifi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
7
 
 
SPECIAL: There are two ways to watch this 80th birthday Ringo Starr celebratory music special, which is mounted to raise funds for a quartet of Ringo-chosen charities, including Black Lives Matter Global Network and The David Lynch Foundation. The first way, literally, is to tune at 8 p.m. ET to the former Beatle’s YouTube channel, where the charity telecast includes remotely distanced performances by Ringo Starr, his former bandmate Paul McCartney, as well as Dave Grohl, Sheila E., J
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
7
 
 
SPECIAL: Sixteen years after turning 64, Ringo Starr gets by with a lot of help from his friends, celebrating his 80thbirthday in grand, pandemically appropriate style. At 8 p.m. ET, AXS presents the exclusive cable premiere of Ringo’s Big Birthday Show, the charity event unveiled three hours earlier on Ringo’s own YouTube Channel, featuring performances from Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh and others. But AXS isn’t stopping there. Also shown today as part of i