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2015
Sep
28
 
 
Last week, Stephen Colbert played host to, among many other guests, front-running Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Tonight, among Colbert’s guests is another prominent political figure: First Lady Michelle Obama (seen here over the weekend, before the state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 

Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal’s new TV series isn’t a sitcom – it’s a travel and food show. But it’s funnier than most sitcoms, and just might contain the secret to world peace…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
Indian Summers is both meaningful and gorgeous to look at. Part period epic, part morality play, this Masterpiece masterpiece, Summers, is set during the waning days of the British Raj in India...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai is a courageous, profound, charming, and intelligent young woman. And apparently quite the magician with a great sense of humor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: 60 Minutes is the oldest continuously running TV series in prime time, yet regularly makes the Top 10 in the ratings. Tonight is the Season 48 opener for this venerable newsmagazine, and tonight’s show speaks with two of the most newsworthy, quoteworthy, and aggressively abrasive men on the planet: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. No wonder this is a special expanded installment.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This year, The Simpsons had me at the opening couch gag – a salute to some classic Beatles LP covers. So the show can still delight and surprise me, even though this is the start of Season 27. (For The Simpsons, that is. Personally, I’m closing in on Season 250.) And tonight’s season opener does go somewhere unexpected: Homer and Marge, on the advice of a marriage counselor, undergo a trial separation. And another thing I never thought I’d see: Homer on a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Don Johnson is 65 now, but still carries the effortless sex appeal that served him so well in the Eighties on Miami Vice. In this new series, a throwback to the days (and shows) of Dallas and Dynasty, Johnson plays the modern equivalent of a J.R. Ewing – someone who made his millions (and more) in the energy game. Scott Walker plays his ungrateful son, Amber Valletta plays his trophy wife, and the young-generation co-stars of the show, playing a young couple seeking their
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
SERIES FINALE: While other series are just starting out tonight, optimistically presenting their very first episodes, the flagship CSI series is saying goodbye tonight, after 15 seasons and more than 300 installments behind them. Original stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger are back for this two-hour finale – as is recurring guest star Melinda Clarke as the unforgettable Lady Heather.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
This special report by VICE, looking at the U.S. penal system by conducting a group interview with some selected inmates, is indeed special, because of its special “correspondent.” Conducting the conversation? President Barack Obama.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Sep
27
 
 
The protagonists of this show haven’t gotten very far as yet – in fact, even leaving the neighborhood temporarily, on foot, has become a very risky adventure. But as the deaths pile up – along with the undeaths – the people huddled in their houses begin to realize that “normal life” may have become a thing of the past.