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2017
Nov
9
 
 
Missy Peregrym doesn’t waste a lot of time warming up before she jumps into battle on Syfy’s Van Helsing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
9
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Sheldon begins working with Bert (played by recurring guest Brian Posehn) on a geology problem. Bert, of course, used to have a crush on Sheldon’s girlfriend, Amy – but now the jealousy in this particular triangle may be coming from a slightly different direction.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
9
 
 
Characters in this show rise and fall like Wall Street stocks: On top one week, and plummeting dangerously the next. This week, Gordon is up, offered the role of captain of the Gotham City Police Department, while his partner Bullock is down. And in other venues, among those on the rise are the three women about to call themselves the Sirens (pictured) – and determined to execute a power grab in Gotham, at the expense of the current thug in control, the Penguin.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
9
 
 
This 1946 movie uses the same plot later extrapolated as a musical in The King and I, but this one is colorless – that is, it’s in black and white – and relatively, but not completely, musicless. Irene Dunne plays Anna Owens, the Englishwoman who, in 1862, accepted a job as the private tutor for the children of the King of Siam. He’s King Mongkut, played by Rex Harrison. Other Siamese roles also went to familiar Hollywood faces, including Linda Darnell as Tuptim and Gale
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
9
 
 
Last week’s second episode of Young Sheldon, unveiled after a long hiatus following the advance preview of the series premiere, established the show as a solid spinoff of The Big Bang Theory. Tonally, the biggest difference – requiring a slight adjustment from viewers – is that, unlike its parent program, Young Sheldon has no studio audience or laugh track. But the laughs are there. Iain Armitage, in the title role of Sheldon Cooper, is perfectly cast and wonderfully deadpan. Z
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
8
 
 
If there’s one thing lifelong conservationist and wildlife filmmaker Kim Wolhuter hopes viewers will take away from Wednesday’s PBS Nature special The Cheetah Children, it’ll be a sense of wonder for what remains of the natural world...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
8
 
 
I show this 2011 Martin Scorsese movie in my Film History and Appreciation I class, because its a tale about a young orphan living secretly in the inner workings of a Paris train station in 1931 that slowly, and slyly, becomes much more than that. It ends up being an appreciation, and a sugar-coated, painless-to-swallow history, of the early days of cinema. It’s a total delight, and to say any more would be to dilute some of those delights. The cast is charming, and includes sweet supporti
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
8
 
 
Tonight is the 51st Country Music Association awards show – and for almost 20 percent of that run, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood have served as co-hosts. This is their 10th consecutive time appearing as joint emcees, and the scheduled performers include Miranda Lambert (pictured), Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Little Big Town, Alan Jackson and others.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
8
 
 
Two weeks ago, Nature told the story of a man who raised some orphaned otters and released them successfully back into the wild. Tonight, there’s a similar theme, as a nature photographer develops an unexpected and unusual relationship with some newborn cheetah cubs, or kittens, or Cheetos, or whatever tiny cheetahs are called. The mom is still around, too, which allows for some “up close and personal” footage of the way a cheetah family relates, plays, hunts, and sleeps. But y
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
8
 
 
Ernst Lubitsch directed this 1940 comedy, based on the Nikolaus Laszlo play, about two people who work together with friction and animosity, yet unknowingly are in love with each other as anonymous pen pals. It’s the same story recycled for both the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie You’ve Got Mail and the Broadway musical She Loves Me – and here, the passionate postal lovers are played by James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.