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2013
Nov
22
 
 
A good, talkative bunch is scheduled to show up tonight, including Paul Begala, Dan Savage and, from Treme, Wendell Pierce.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
22
 
 
Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it seems like the appropriate time to add, to our all-time TVWW Seal of Approval list,  this NBC miniseries, broadcast 20 years after that fateful event...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
Little notice is being paid to CBSNews.com’s plans: they will begin streaming the same TV coverage CBS aired, also at that exact moment, in 1963, through the Monday funeral, just as it happened on TV 50 years ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 

Friday, on the exact 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, NBC’s Tom Brokaw asks Where Were You? That same day, on NPR’s Fresh Air, I give my answer…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
Tonight’s new installment is a Thanksgiving episode, which ought to be enjoyable enough. But sometime during the festivities, Leonard (Johnny Galecki) learns, for the first time, that Penny’s drunken Las Vegas wedding years ago, to an old boyfriend, is still valid – and apparently, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) learns it for the first time, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
This 1960 documentary by Robert Drew captured politics right before politics and TV got wise to one another. The 1960 debates between Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon (the current vice president) and Democrat John F. Kennedy were the first televised presidential debates in history, and changed everything. But before that, when Kennedy was still politicking for the nomination of his party on the presidential ticket and fighting for delegates, filmmaker Drew caught the momentum, and the mista
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
Way back in Season 1, when Glee seemed to know where it was going, Matthew Morrison and guest star Neil Patrick Harris sang Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” together – and as a sort of competition. Tonight, four seasons later, the entire show is devoted to Joel’s music, and “Piano Man” is sung again, this time by Darren Criss as Blaine (pictured). Sing us a song, you’re the piano man…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
Part 4. The photo accompanying tonight’s episode may look like a picture of Batman and Catwoman from a big-screen superhero movie – but it’s actually a flashback prologue from this evening’s The Returned, and it features two of this moody miniseries’ female stars, talking while exiting a costume party. What happens next puts the drama in most costumed movie epics to shame – and what happens after that, well, I’m still not talking openly about, because th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
21
 
 
Every week, when I watch this series, I end up feeling glad that it’s on TV, because a family drama, where the issues are so specific and yet so universally identifiable, is a very endangered species these days on the small screen. Or, in 2013, on any size screen. And this week, with an episode titled “Election Night,” a lot more is decided than just a mayoral vote. Even the promos look especially intense.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
20
 
 
ABC’s midseason schedule will have sweeping changes, including the new cowboy-hatted drama, Killer Women, a series about modern-day Texas Rangers...