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2020
Sep
30
 
 
On this day in 1960, ABC introduced The Flintstones, TV's most popular Stone Age family...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
30
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This new film, an imaginatively presented interpretation of Gloria Steinem’s 2015 memoir My Life on the Road, is directed by Julie Taymor, who bought The Lion King to Broadway. And here, she uses equal imagination in telling the story of this iconic feminist – by casting several actresses to play Steinem at various ages. Hence the title Glorias. Among them: Julianne Moore (pictured) and Alicia Vikander.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
30
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: This new 2020 adaptation of Mart Crowley’s seminal stage play, first mounted off-Broadway in 1968, includes among its producers Ryan Murphy, of Pose and Glee fame. Crowley himself adapted his play for this new Netflix screen version, but he died in March, so didn’t live to see its streaming premiere. The play, about a group of gay men who start drinking and talking during an increasingly intense birthday celebration, was a rare voice from the gay
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
30
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Ahead of its Season 24 premiere that’s arriving before too long (think of that: Season 24!), South Park presents this one-shot teaser appetizer, called the South Park Pandemic Special. Just one look (pictured), and you know you have to watch this one-hour TV treat.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
29
 
 
On this day in 1998, the WB introduced Felicity, which starred Keri Russell as a young California girl who impulsively upends her West Coast college plans to follow her high-school crush to New York...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
29
 
 
Tonight is the fifth installment of Women Make Film, and this episode covers the chapter topics “Adult/Child,” “Economy,” and “Editing.” Afterward, the all-night festival of movies made by women includes Ava DuVernay’s 2012 drama Middle of Nowhere (at 9:15 p.m. ET, pictured) and Sandy Wilson’s 1985  film My American Cousin (at 8:15 a.m. ET Wednesday).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
29
 
 
In 1960, the first televised presidential debate, between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy (pictured), drew 70 million viewers – only two million less than the 1964 Ed Sullivan Show introducing The Beatles to America. The most recent presidential debates – in 2016, between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton – drew an estimated 84 million viewers. And my guess is that this year’s debates, between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph Biden, will set yet an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
28
 
 
Last week, the premiere of this new Fox comedy suggested strongly that the character played by Gerald McRaney, billed as one of the two leads (the other being Kim Cattrall), had died just before the opening credits. But just before the closing credits that surprise plot twist became even more twisted – making me look more forward to tonight’s Episode 2.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
28
 
 
MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Last night’s Part 1, starring Jeff Daniels as James Comey, ended as Donald Trump ascended to the White House, and made a big deal out of welcoming Comey at an Oval Office event. That warm welcome, as evidenced by tonight’s concluding episode of this two-part docudrama, doesn’t last very long…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
28
 
 
On this day in 1991, ABC introduced the dramedy, The Commish...