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2017
Aug
28
 
 
And now for something completely different: a good-news story for a change. That’s good news, at least, for those wondering if their favorite TV show is coming back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
In an exciting, come-from-behind game, Texas’s Lufkin Little League All-Stars fought from a large deficit to beat the heavily favored team from Greenville, NC, and win the U.S. Little League crown. Today, Lufkin takes on the international winner, Japan, for a shot at the world title.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
Katy Perry hosts. Ed Sheeran and Miley Cyrus are among the artists scheduled to perform live. But I ask you: When’s the last time you saw a music video on MTV? Or, to be mean about it, when’s the last time you saw MTV?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
Last week, Dougie – the version of Dale Cooper who’s been stuck for 15 episodes in some kind of childlike, amnesiac state, dropped to his knees and stuck the handle of a fork in an electrical socket. That was about halfway through the show, and we haven’t seen him since, or learned what happened – but it’s not too much to ask that the shock brought him, and the show, back to self-aware life at long last.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last week’s impressively staged battle, between Jon Snow’s small band of explorers and the endless White Walkers or whatever they’re called, was exciting – and even a bit sad, as one of Daenerys’ dragons was killed by the undead Night King. What’s worse, at least in terms of the escalating arms race against the no-longer-living winter warriors, is that the episode ended with the vanquished dragon rising from the dead, with those telltale bright
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
The dual time line explored this season by Ray Donovan continues to resonate strongly. There’s the present, where Ray is dealing with a new set of problems and headaches caused by clients and family members – and the past, where his wife’s escalating mental illness, brought on by a head injury in a car accident, is beginning to lead to more and more alarming behaviors.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
27
 
 
Last week, Matt LeBlanc, as the host of a tacky reality show in which people are confined in glass boxes, was caught on camera doing some very rude things with one of the female contestants, with only a pane of glass between them. This week, that footage is released, which leads this fictionalized Matt, once again, desperate to team with his old British scriptwriting mates… despite what they still think of him.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
26
 
 
With Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Texas Friday night as a Category 4 hurricane, the biggest storm to hit the U.S in a decade, there already are plenty of reasons to root for Texas in the coming days. But here’s one more. Today at 3:30 p.m. ET, the Lufkin Little League All-Stars, a small team from a small town in Texas, advances to the U.S. Championship Game in the 2017 Little League World Series. The All-Stars face the dominating team from Greenville, NC, in a game televised live on
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
26
 
 
It’s a day of James Cagney movies on TCM –and while a handful of Cagney films could have qualified for presentation on tonight’s installment of “The Essentials,” the prime-time showcase honor is given to one of Cagney’s best and most influential: 1949’s White Heat. This was a gangster movie from Cagney’s second, later wave of moviemaking, but it’s no less classic. What a character. What a portrayal. And what an ending. When James Cameron won
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
26
 
 
This three-part series, from some of the makers of Planet Earth II, continues its look at the American West tonight with a look at “The High Country” – at the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, where grizzly bears roam and giant trees loom.