The first episode of Star, Fox’s much-anticipated new show about a hot female singing trio, contains enough down-and-dirty drama to fill the life stories of a dozen girl groups...

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THE QUEST -- AND TRUTH -- BEHIND 'VAN GOGH'S EAR' By David Hinckley

Pinning down the surgical details about Vincent van Gogh cutting off his ear may seem like a ghoulish quest. Bernadette Murphy, who spent years doing just that, says it turned into something considerably more insightful...

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'THE HOLLOW CROWN: THE WARS OF THE ROSES' IS A SHAKESPEAREAN MASHUP OF SORTS By David Hinckley

Okay, okay, we’re sold. We believe it. Game of Thrones has nothing on Shakespeare...

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NETFLIX LAUNCHES HOSTAGE-THEMED 'CAPTIVE' By David Hinckley

On the surface, the new Netflix docuseries Captive looks like the kind of crime-themed revisitation that we regularly see on Dateline, 48 Hours and various reality shows...

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'MOZART IN THE JUNGLE' IS BACK AND IT'S GRAND By David Hinckley

Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, previously one of the coolest shows around, remains one of the coolest shows around...

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A GENERAL SKETCH OF THE ARTIST IS OFFERED IN 'PICASSO, THE LEGACY' By David Hinckley

If you’ve heard the name Picasso all your life and always felt like you should know a little more about him, Ovation TV has the ticket...

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SERAYAH ON THE LATEST IN TIANA'S STORY ON 'EMPIRE' By David Hinckley

Among its several other breakthroughs, Fox’s hit drama Empire has positioned a gay artist as an R&B star and built several storylines about the homophobia he faces – including from his own father...

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There’s nothing like a bucolic little village with a stunning rate of sordid murders, as PBS’s Grantchester has proven, and that’s confirmed again with The Brokenwood Mysteries...

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If your main thought about the atomic bomb is that you’re just glad no one ever detonated one in America, you should maybe think again...

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'PACIFIC HEAT' IS THE AUSSIE 'ARCHER' -- AND THAT'S ACE! By David Hinckley

If you love FX’s Archer – and who, to be honest, cannot love Archer? – you need to check out Netflix’s new Pacific Heat...

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