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2012
Oct
6
AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL DIVISION SERIES: OAKLAND ATHLETICS VS. DETROIT TIGERS By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night’s wild-card games provided plenty of drama, including the spectacle of Atlanta Braves fans protesting a pivotal infield-fly rule call by peppering the field with cans and bottles. (Classy. At least they didn’t throw their tomahawks.) Tonight’s division series games are a best-of-five affair, but the tension will remain high. Up first in this TBS doubleheader: the Tigers, with home-field advantage over the Athletics.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
6
50/50 By David Bianculli
 
 
Screenwriter Will Reiser wrote this movie based on his own experiences, as a comic who tried to find humor while coping with a sudden diagnosis of cancer. Seth Rogen, Reiser’s friend, co-produced and costars in this 2011 film, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Reiser’s screen counterpart.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
6
THE MUPPETS By David Bianculli
 
 
Jason Segel co-wrote, as well as stars in, this 2011 movie that returns the Muppets to the large screen, with Amy Adams as a human co-star and a Muppets cast that includes everyone from Kermit and Miss Piggy to Beaker and Pepe the Prawn. To some, Pepe is a star — but with this sprawling and star-studded a Muppet menagerie, he's only a prawn in their game.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
6
NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL DIVISION SERIES: CINCINNATI REDS VS. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS By David Bianculli
 
 
The second game of tonight’s TBS doubleheader presents the Giants, who have home-field advantage, against the Reds, in the first game of a best-of-five postseason contest.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
6
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
After a week off, SNL returns with another new episode – this one with guest host Daniel Craig, and musical guest Muse. Expect a presidential debate parody of some sort, because it’s too juicy a subject to ignore.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
6
1966: 'THE DATING GAME' GOES PRIMETIME By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1966, ABC plugged a hole in its primetime schedule with the daytime show, The Dating Game...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
1950: 'YOU BET YOUR LIFE' MAKES ITS TV DEBUT By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1950, the popular radio quiz show You Bet Your Life made its television debut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WILD CARD PLAYOFF: ST. LOUIS CARDINALS VS. ATLANTA BRAVES By David Bianculli
 
 
Part of the storyline to today’s sudden-death wild card game, no matter which team emerges as the victor, will be a salute to Braves legend Chipper Jones, because it could be his last game. But the game itself will have drama enough – under rules newly instituted this year, each league opens the post-season proceedings to a wild-card playoff, and these two National League teams have qualified. Barely.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WASHINGTON By David Bianculli
 
 
This new TCM documentary is written directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau, who does a masterful job assembling pertinent film clips and dividing them into various sub-genres, from satiric and historic to romantic and paranoid. He also assembles various artists for personal perspective – an odd and incomplete lot, but the best of them include Rob Reiner and a surprisingly vulnerable Oliver Stone. Hollywood Goes to Washington will make you want to seek out about a dozen great old politi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
5
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WILD CARD PLAYOFF: BALTIMORE ORIOLES VS. TEXAS RANGERS By David Bianculli
 
 
This is the American League wild-card sudden-death playoff game, a do-or-die affair that has the Rangers, after being swept by the improbably resurgent Oakland Athletics, battling to earn a spot in postseason play by facing the Baltimore Orioles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley