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2016
Mar
6
 
 
The morning after last week’s show, in which John Oliver devoted the meat of his program to an excoriating point-by-point examination of the positions and quotes of front-running Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, one of my former TV History & Appreciation students at Rowan University stopped me and said he thought Oliver’s piece on Trump reminded him of Edward R. Murrow’s similarly detailed and quote-filled takedown of Communist-hunting Sen. Joe McCarthy on CB
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
6
 
 
Recently, Kevin Spacey came to visit The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and read scenes from House of Cards...in a way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
SERIES FINALE: This show has featured 900 explosions and nearly 3,000 experiments, so it’s fitting – and completely unavoidable – that this 13-year-old Discovery Channel series goes out with a bang. In this case, it involves 5,000 pounds of industrial explosives, packed inside a cement truck. Just more of the big bang theories this group has explored for quite a while, under the auspices of several different hosts. And as a special treat, at 9 p.m. ET, as soon as the final Myth
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
Movies new to premium cable roll out tonight. Here’s one: Melissa McCarthy’s latest comedy, a 2015 film in which she plays a CIA drone given the chance to leave the office and go undercover in the field.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
Here’s another movie showing up on premium cable for the first time. It’s from 2014, and stars Amy Adams as Margaret Keene, an artist much less famous than her husband – who took credit for her trendily popular artwork of little kids with very big eyes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
From 1957, another impressive David Lean epic – this one about British POWs trying to maintain morale while captured by the Japanese and put on work detail to build a bridge whose completion would hamper the Allied war effort. Alec Guinness, William Holden star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
After a bit of a break, Saturday Night Live returns, with a fresh episode featuring Jonah Hill as guest host. Musical guests: Future. And that means, after a few skits, you can see and hear the musical guests, then watch Weekend Update and a few more skits, and, finally, go back to the Future.  
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
5
 
 
In trying to figure out what will happen in Sunday night’s last-ever episode of Downton Abbey, it’s worth keeping in mind the Law of TV Finales...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
4
 
 
Loretta Lynn won America’s affection with the 1980 film Coal Miner’s Daughter. Now the producers of a new PBS documentary want her to also score a little more of America’s admiration...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
4
 
 
Essentially, this 2015 documentary is about the making of a movie: The 1971 racing film Le Mans, starring race-car and motorcycle enthusiast Steve McQueen. But it’s also about Hollywood stardom, the definition of that era’s cool factor, and other stuff – none of which has as much pure electricity as McQueen whenever he smiles, squints, or just coldly stares.