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2013
May
4
 
 
The last frame of last week’s Smash suggested a smash hit – of an automobile smashing into one of the show’s street-crossing characters. So expect some dramatic backlash tonight, as the two shows vying for attention in this series’ plot – Hit List and Bombshell – shuffle the decks once again.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
4
 
 
This week, the Doctor takes a trip back to the past – to Victorian Yorkshire, where he confronts a local urban legend known as “the Crimson horror.” Which, he soon learns, is true, and deadly.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
4
 
 
Love this movie. It’s a Depression-era musical about the Depression – and is meta enough to actually be about artists trying to band together and raise money to put on a show about the Depression. It starts off as goofy as you can get, with Ginger Rogers singing “We’re in the Money” in Pig Latin – but ends with a punch to the gut, a returning-war-veterans production number called “Remember My Forgotten Man.” Once you see it, you’ll never forg
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
4
 
 
Tatiana Maslani, on this series, already not only has played several differently acting cloned versions of the main character, but has portrayed them acting, in disguise, as one another. Tonight she does it again, with another clone asked to impersonate another lookalike. Even with a scorecard, there’s no telling the players on this show — except that almost all of them are Maslani.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
4
 
 
Tonight’s guest host, returning for this new edition, is the energetic and risk-taking Zach Galifianakis. Musical guests: Monsters of Men.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
 
 
Whatever its scheduling decisions, CBS will march into next season as the No. 1 network among 18-to-49-year-olds for the first time in 21 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
 
 
The Doctor Who folks went above and beyond to establish their social media presence...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
 
 
Do we really need another alienated, middle-aged misanthrope, no matter how clever? Actually, there might be room for one more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
 
 
What a delight this 1999 movie is. I know, because every time I recommend it – which is just about every time it pops up on TV – I end up watching it, and being entranced all over again. Tim Allen stars as a low-rent kind of Captain Kirk on a Star Trek-type TV series, an actor preening and grousing his way through fan conventions until outer space visitors visit, confusing him and his cast members for real interstellar heroes. And what a team: Sigourney Weaver and the hilariously dro
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
May
3
 
 
More than a decade after this 2002 Austin Powers sequel was made, the main reason to watch it today – other than to catch Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba in a cameo as Asian twin “Fook Yu” – is to catch the confident co-starring role by a very young Beyoncé Knowles. She plays Foxxy Cleopatra, holding her own against Mike Myers in three roles (Austin Powers, Dr. Evil and new villain Goldmember), Seth Green as Scott Evil, and Michael York as Basil Expos