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2017
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Today’s guests include two people equally adept at one-liners and vocal outrage: Penn Gillette and (pictured) Sen. Al Franken. Also on the show: Amy Holmes and Gavin Newsom. But hey -- what's there to talk about?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
18
 
 
Anybody still waiting for The Pivot to a “presidential” version of Donald Trump? Today’s Trump is pretty much a carbon copy of the guy who appeared before a hotel ballroom full of TV critics 10-and-a-half years ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Last week’s premiere of this Saturday Night Live summer series was just what you wanted from an August edition of Colin Jost and Michael Che’s “fake news”: full of jokes, topicality, and attitude. It was fast and furious (Alex Moffat and Mikey Day, as Eric and Donald Trump Jr., stole that first show), and I’m looking forward to tonight’s second edition.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Jaime Pressly, who co-starred in Greg Garcia’s My Name Is Earl, checks in at the remote rental cabin in his new TBS series, The Guest Book. She plays Christy, who’s there to bond with her new boyfriend and his eight-year-old daughter – but new technology, and old demons, prove formidable obstacles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Rosalind Russell is today’s featured actor for TCM’s Summer Under the Stars salute. You can watch her movies all day and all night – but the standout arrives at midnight ET, when TCM televises 1940’s delightful His Girl Friday, the razor-sharp remake of The Front Page. Russell plays a star newspaper reporter, and Cary Grant co-stars as her editor – and ex-husband. One-liners fly furiously. So do sparks.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
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Be patient with Marvel’s The Defenders. The long-awaited miniseries...finally arrives on Netflix on Friday, and it’s not one of those action-adventure shows that hits the ground in overdrive...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
16
 
 
Warning: Watching NBC’s new sitcom Marlon might wear you out...Marlon uses the “situation” part of sitcom primarily to set up comic bits by main man Marlon Wayans...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
16
 
 
Last week, this new series from Stephen King and David E. Kelley began with a horrifying opening sequence: At a snaking line for admittance to a jobs fair, hopeful people gathering hours early for their turns at finding potential employment were mowed down by a murderous motorist. It was chilling to see a week ago, and even more chilling to recall, in retrospect, after this weekend’s horrifying act of vehicular homicide in Charlottesville. And tonight comes episode two, where there’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
16
 
 
This is a repeat, but of a subject I find particularly fascinating, and certainly worth a second look. Or, if you missed it before, a first. In central China, a massive underground mausoleum housed a collection of life-size terracotta warriors – a sculpted army, amassed to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. But from what? And how? And how were these sculptures shaped and manufactured in the first place? Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
16
 
 
This program premiered last week, so this is a rerun – but it felt so good to watch it, I’m pointing out its prime-time repeat tonight in case you’d be similarly interested in watching some civil political discourse. Rubinstein’s joint interview this week is between former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and they take turns answering very interesting questions about their experiences as the chief executive – including how they felt when they first occupi