Almost 40 million people saw at least part of The Civil War when Ken Burns’ multipart documentary premiered in September 1990...It’s coming back Monday, September 7, for a special anniversary encore on PBS. Two things will be different...

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2015 U.S. OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The highest-profile match today occurs at night, after 7 p.m. ET, when No. 2 seed Roger Federer plays in prime time. Watch to see if Federer unleashes his newly developed weapon, which he calls SABR. It stands for Sneak Attack By Roger, and it has him, rarely and very unexpectedly, rushing forward as his opponent serves, to meet the incoming serve about midcourt. Otherwise, it’s one day and counting before Serena and Venus Williams play in the next round – on opposite sides of the ne

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EMPIRE By David Bianculli

What yummier way to celebrate a holiday than with a bunch of Cookies? Beginning at noon ET today, FX is borrowing the first season of Empire from sister network Fox, and showing it in its entirety in one 10-part Labor Day marathon.

2015

Sep

LOST PILOTS WEEK By David Bianculli

Apparently, there’s a game-show-obsessed network, other than the Game Show Network, called Buzzr. Also apparently, this week Buzzr, which is available in certain TV and cable markets (check the Buzzr website), is devoting prime time this week to “Lost Pilots Week.” First up: Amelia Earhart. (Just kidding. What? Too soon?) Actually, first up, at 8 p.m. ET, is the original 1962 pilot of The Match Game, followed by one of the few surviving episodes from the early Sixties, featurin

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THE CIVIL WAR By David Bianculli

Part 1. Between today and Friday, PBS is rebroadcasting this landmark Ken Burns documentary series – a newly remastered version, with both sound and images, in honor of this massive and superb historical miniseries’ silver anniversary. Tonight, we get the lead-up to the war, lots of the endearing commentary of Shelby Foote, the first Battle of Bull Run – and, as a capper, the Sullivan Ballou letter, one of the best moments of television in the past 25 years. For an in-depth int

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THX 1138 By David Bianculli

Here’s a rarely televised movie: From 1971, it’s a moody sci-fi parable, set centuries in the future, about a man who rebels against his regimented society. It’s the first movie by George Lucas, who wrote and directed it. It stars Robert Duvall, and is executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, who must have liked what he saw of Duvall here. The following year, Coppola cast Duvall in The Godfather – and the year after that, in 1973, Coppola co-produced American Graffiti,

2015

Sep

'THE CIVIL WAR' IS BACK - BUT ITS DIVISIVE ISSUES NEVER LEFT By David Bianculli

The Civil War, the brilliant Ken Burns series presented by PBS in 1990, returns this week, in restored and enhanced condition, for its silver anniversary. Race, as America’s central defining and dividing issue, has never left…

2015

Sep

PUBLIC MORALS MARATHON By David Bianculli

This is interesting. As a Labor Day weekend special treat, TNT is making available the entire first season of its new Edward Burns series, Public Morals – including a majority of episodes that haven’t even been shown on the TNT network as yet. So if you liked the two opening installments of this period cop show, today and tomorrow provide the rare opportunity to get ahead in your reading – or, at least, your viewing. All 10 episodes are available on TNT On Demand –

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Sep

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD By David Bianculli

Another Labor Day preview of sorts: Today on Sunday Morning, Mo Rocca interviews the man whose new new TV program will premiere on Tuesday night: Stephen Colbert, the new host of CBS’s Late Show. It’s definitely the must-see TV event of the week – and today, CBS provides a behind-the-scenes, behind-the-mask glimpse of what the former fake pundit of The Colbert Report is concocting. Check local listings.

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Sep

2015 U.S. OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Today is round four of the 2015 tournament, and the afternoon session promises back-to-back matches that are exciting to contemplate individually, and even more so as an emotional doubleheader. First comes Venus Williams, the elder sister of top-seeded Serena Williams, ranked No. 23 but still fighting her way through this tournament, who faces unseeded Anett Contaveit. Then comes younger sister Serena, who battled back fiercely in her last match against Bethanie Mattek-Sands to keep her ca

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