This two-hour examination of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy isn’t new. In fact, it’s 20 years old, from a Frontline special shown originally in 1993, marking what was then the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination. But Oswald rarely is studied in this much detail – that was true then, and on TV, it’s true now, so this Frontline remains, after all these years, TV worth watching. Check local listings.

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SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

Previews for this week’s episode promise an all-out action showdown, with the riders of SAMCRO, the police escorts of Clay, and the vengeful gunrunners of the IRA all converging for one giant highway pile-up.

2013

Nov

DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTORS REVISITED MARATHON By David Bianculli

All this week, BBC America is building up to Saturday’s global simulcast of the 50th anniversary special episode of Doctor Who. The week’s festivities begin early today. At 8 a.m. ET, BBC America repeats Doctor Who: The Companions, its special devoted to the Doctor’s many traveling companions through the (past 49) years. Then, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, the network presents a 10-installment marathon of The Doctors Revisited, with individual one-hour specials devoted to the first 1

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Nov

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Barney’s biological father, played by John Lithgow, returns for this week’s all-new episode. Since Barney’s mother, played by Frances Conroy, and brother, played by Wayne Brady, already are here in this season-long story line, who’s left? Good question. Stay tuned.

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ALMOST HUMAN By David Bianculli

This new series, from Fringe collaborators J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman, premiered last night on Fox, but slips into its regular Monday slot tonight, starring Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as a cop in the future and his android partner. Tonight’s second episode features something the premiere didn’t: a subplot involving sexbots, one of whom is seen in the accompanying photo. For Fox, leaving that plot line until episode two qualifies as corporate restraint. For a full review, see Eric Go

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY By David Bianculli

Jackie Mabley, the crossover African-American comedienne featured on many mainstream TV variety shows in the Sixties, is profiled here, in a documentary profile presented by Whoopi Goldberg, another female pioneer in her field.

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THE ELEPHANT MAN By David Bianculli

Later tonight – much later, at 2:15 a.m. ET – TCM presents part 12 of its 15-part imported documentary on cinema history. It’s called The Story of Film: An Odyssey: 1980s – Moviemaking and Protest Around the World, and, as usual, is much more entertaining than its clunky, academic title. And one of the movies profiled in it is featured tonight in prime time, at 10 p.m. ET: 1980’s stirringly original The Elephant Man, starring John Hurt and directed by David Lynch. I

2013

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ONE GREAT TV ENDING DESERVES ANOTHER – AND GETS ONE, A NEW, ALTERNATE CONCLUSION TO ‘BREAKING BAD’ By David Bianculli

The actual ending to AMC’s Breaking Bad was among the most satisfying in TV history. But now there’s an “official” alternate ending, alluding to the finest TV finale of all…

2013

Nov

ROBOT IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND By Eric Gould

The reversal in the upcoming Fox sci-fi series Almost Human is that the robot is more in touch with his feelings than his loutish partner, who punches and bashes his way through all his problems...

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TED TURNER: THE MAVERICK MAN By David Bianculli

I have no idea why CNN is slipping this salute to its founder into such an early time slot, but Ted Turner certainly is worthy of such attention: If you list the 10 most important executives in the history of television, Turner’s name ranks very high on that list, right up there with Paley, Sarnoff and a few others. Because this salute is produced for CNN, one of many cable networks he pioneered, don’t expect it to be objective, or very critical. But because it features former spouse

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