The people under the dome can’t go anywhere – but new people keep popping up from time to time, as do new subplots. One of the new plot threads introduced tonight: a look into the past for clues, as a picture of young Melanie (Grace Victoria Cox) is found in an old high school yearbook – from 25 years before.

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POV: "DANCE FOR ME" By David Bianculli

This new POV sounds like an unlikely subject for a captivating documentary: It follows two young dancers as they prepare for competition in a ballroom competition – in Denmark. Yet if you’ve ever been sucked in by So You Think You Can Dance or Dancing with the Stars, or swept away by the healing drama of Silver Linings Playbook, give this a chance. Two very dissimilar young people unite forces to compete, and their growth and passion – off the dance floor as well as on –

2014

Jul

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION By David Bianculli

In tonight’s salute to Agatha Christie, TCM saves the best for last, so set your recorders. At 3:30 a.m. ET, the network presents 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution, a wickedly clever murder mystery and courtroom drama directed by Billy Wilder. The stars in this one include Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich, both of whom deliver fabulous performances. Also featured: Tyrone Power, and one of Christie's, and the cinema’s, classic twist endings.

2014

Jul

2014 TCA AWARDS: ONSTAGE AND AFTER By Bill Brioux

Host Terry Crews of Fox's Brooklyn Nine Nine showed he can sing as well as do shtick. “President Camacho” was joined by surprise guest co-host Miss Piggy, who seemed right at home in a room full of hambones...

2014

Jul

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY HILARIOUS: MONTY PYTHON'S LATEST FAREWELL TOUR By David Bianculli

In the States, we can’t see the live telecast of Sunday’s final Monty Python stage show in London that starts any minute. But it’s coming to DVD in November – meanwhile, I attended the show earlier this week…

2014

Jul

2014 BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

The action for today’s final, live from the Royal Liverpool course, begins early – and begins with the leader, Rory McIlroy, enjoying a six-stroke lead going into the final day of play. McIlroy, at age 25, would claim the third leg of a Grand Slam in major tournaments if he holds steady today – and holding steady certainly was his specialty on Saturday. He began yesterday with a four-stroke lead, but with only five holes to play, Ricky Fowler had fought McIlroy to a tie at 12 u

2014

Jul

TRUE BLOOD By David Bianculli

In its final season, True Blood has rejuvenated itself, pulsing with new life like a freshly fed vampire. Last week’s episode, in which Sookie (Anna Paquin) went on a rescue mission with many of the show’s most compelling characters: Bill (Stephen Moyer), Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Sam (Sam Trammell), Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and my favorite character of all, Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten). That hour had action, drama and blood galore – but it also had

2014

Jul

GUNSLINGERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-part series premieres tonight as a new nonfiction presentation – nonfiction that is, with lots of recreations – from what used to be called the Military Channel. This limited series about Old West Gunslingers – with a half-dozen episodes, it’s a proverbial six-shooter – isn’t very compelling as it builds to its recreated action scenes. They’re a mix between Wild West frontier tourist shows and Matrix-like slo-mo gunplay. But the

2014

Jul

THE STRAIN By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode two, we learn more about the few passengers who were able to walk away, eventually, from that otherwise fatal flight. And we also learn about the plane’s mysterious cargo – a dirty little secret, having to do with dirt and a vintage box, that echoes one of the memorable myths from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Welcome aboard, folks. Corey Stoll stars as the scientist trying to tie all these mysterious threads together.

2014

Jul

THE LOTTERY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: As a one-shot telemovie, this futuristic drama might have worked: It’s not so much a remake of Shirley Jackson’s classic short story about violently and randomly dispensed justice as it is a sci-fi tale about a barren society in which 100 fertilized human eggs are put up for grabs by canny politicians. Marley Shelton stars as the scientist who makes the fertility beakthrough – and though this series quickly follows a derivative and less satisfying story line, i

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