SEASON PREMIERE: Normally, I wouldn’t point out this show, even on its Season 9 premiere, but tonight’s episode is special, inarguably and especially thematically. It makes room for a very special guest, as both muse and judge: Lady Gaga. The contestants are asked to dress up with a couple of different fashion “looks” for themselves: one that’s small-town simple, and the other that’s simply Gaga. And the guest judge herself comes dressed to impress, if not to

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s scheduled guests include MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who has interviewed Bill Maher on his own show in the past (pictured), but is showing up tonight on Real Time with a new book to promote – but who, this week, better be prepared to talk about a lot more than just that book…

2017

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2017 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

We’re not at the Final Four yet – but tonight we have four of this year’s NCAA games, all in prime time – two presented by CBS, the other two by TBS. Starting things off, at 7 p.m. ET on CBS, presents the Midwest’s No. 3 Oregon Ducks vs. No. 7 Michigan Wolverines, the team, that is emerging as one of the tournament’s most beloved teams, and stories, this year. Other games tonight, in order of telecast: At 7:30 p.m. ET on TBS, the West’s No. 1 Gonzaga Bul

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GOJIRA By David Bianculli

In the United States, the giant lizard monster Godzilla was introduced to us via 1956’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, one of many 1950s movie presenting giant, atom-bomb-mutated creatures as allegories for fears of nuclear disaster. Raymond Burr starred in that movie, old-time monster movie fans may recall, playing an American reporter named, believe it or not, Steve Martin. But Burr’s scenes were all shot two years after the release of the original Japanese lizard-monster film, G

2017

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BASKETS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: One thing you wouldn’t expect out of Baskets – one of the very few things – is timeliness. Yet for tonight’s season finale, for reasons yet undisclosed, Chip (Zack Galifianakis) joins… the Russians.

2017

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KING KONG By David Bianculli

Speaking of Donkey Kong, Monkey Kong, and King Kong – with the new Kong: Skull Island reviving the legend, and movie franchise, of King Kong, here comes a TCM replay of the 1933 original. Its special effects are all over the place, from spectacular for their time to cheesy at any time, and the titular giant ape changes in size and shape more than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. But if you remember that this King Kong adventures originally arrived in movie theaters only six years after the a

2017

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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS By David Bianculli

This 1956 movie, presented right after the Joe McCarthy Communist witch hunts, and at a time when America still was terrified of being infiltrated by Russian spies and sympathizers (oh, remember what a quaint era that was?), remains one of the best movies about properly motivated paranoia ever made. (For others, see All the President’s Men, The Parallax View, The Thing, and Alien, to name a few.) Don Siegel, who eventually directed Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, directs this still-scary st

2017

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FOX'S ‘SHOTS FIRED’ IS THE LATEST BROADCAST NETWORK DRAMA AIMING TO BE SOCIALLY RELEVANT By Ed Bark

The broadcast networks -- well, at least two of them -- lately have been flexing their social consciences. Not that this is a profitable enterprise...

2017

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FOX HAS HIT THE TARGET WITH ‘SHOTS FIRED’ By David Hinckley

Broadcast television has another strong, compelling and troubling entry in the limited-series game with Fox’s Shots Fired...

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