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2015
Aug
12
 
 
We’re counting down to the end of Key & Peele, at this point, knowing that it, too, soon will leave Comedy Central, just as Jon Stewart did. Tonight’s program is titled “Job Interview,” and I’m sure it’ll be funny – but I’m still laughing at long-ago-aired Key & Peele segments. Like football player “Bismo Funyuns.” I’m just saying… I’m going to miss these guys.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
12
 
 
This is the next-to-last Mr. Robot of the season – and things continue to escalate on all fronts. In tonight’s episode, Elliot (Rami Malek) comes face to face, once again, with members of the Dark Army. And this time, they may be more amenable to helping with Elliot’s subversive plans.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
12
 
 
The annual Television Critics Association summer "press tour" is finally on fumes, as is your tvworthwatching.com correspondent after 17 days of asking, listening, watching, and trudging to and fro...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
Next month, it will have been 25 years since Ken Burns unveiled his massive historical miniseries The Civil War, launching his career, and the TV documentary, to a new level. PBS will honor the occasion by repeating the entire program in newly remastered form – but first, as a preamble and appetizer, PBS presents this scene-setting retrospective, on Burns and company as well as the exceptional miniseries they produced. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” actor is Rex Ingram, less of a household name than most – but this actor managed to snag many of the rare starring and co-starring roles for African-American actors in the decades before Sidney Poitier became a major star in the 1950s and 1960s. Ingram’s more controversial films are saved for prime time, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with a showing of 1936’s rarely televised The Green Pastures. It’s a retelling of several biblic
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
This show, a sci-fi special-effects makeup version of Project Runway, sometimes hits the same sweet spot that makes Runway still entertaining after all these cycles: You get to see actual creativity in action. Only here, it’s not fashion, but transformation, that is the beating heart – and with tonight’s episode, devoted to bridal outfits of the unearthly kind, Face Off marks episode No. 100.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Every year, Hard Knocks shows up at training camp at a different pro football team. This season, it’s the Houston Texans.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
Talk about range. In The Green Pastures, which TCM shows at 8 p.m. ET, Rex Ingram plays “De Lawd.” In this 1943 all-black musical, Cabin in the Sky, he plays Lucifer Jr. – and this heaven-hell-and-earthbound musical also features Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, and, as the temptress known as “sweet” Georgia Brown, Lena Horne. Lots of music, lots of audacious good vs. evil sparring – and lots of fun.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
Showtime president David Nevins came out swinging Tuesday. Not with a state of the TV industry proclamation but with a slew of programming announcements. Principal among them was news -- and non-news -- about the reboot of Twin Peaks...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Aug
11
 
 
Seth Meyers has reportedly dropped his monologue opening of NBC's Late Night, instead beginning the show the past couple of nights with news behind his desk...