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2016
May
14
 
 
Tonight’s guest host and musical guest are the same: Drake. And without his beard, which apparently is a big deal on the Internet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
13
 
 
Part 8. Tonight ‘s repeat episode of Jazz has the postwar blues – and in the decade after WWII, the period covered in tonight’s installment, the key word is bebop. So bethere, or besquare. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
13
 
 
This 1999 movie is being shown tonight on the new Viceland network, and is televised rarely enough these days to warrant a mention. John Cusack stars as a puppeteer who accidentally stumbles upon a portal leading, somehow, to John Malkovich’s brain – which he then decides to manipulate for his own benefit. And, in this audaciously weird fantasy comedy, he’s not alone – and in making this movie, the real John Malkovich is very much in on the joke.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
13
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of this series, and given the high level of violence in any random installment of Banshee, this week and next, it’s reasonable to expect the worst. Last week’s episode ended with Eliza Dushku, as the new investigator in town, captured and strung up by the serial killer everyone is after. With only one week to go until Banshee itself is history, will she survive? Given the time frame of this Cinemax series, all bets definitely are off…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
13
 
 
Don’t miss this one: On this new edition, Maher’s guests include former Sen. Bob Graham and filmmaker Michael Moore.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
12
 
 

Warning: Contains spoilers from previously aired episodes of Scandal. One of the big questions hovering over Thursday night’s season finale of Scandal is whether the ABC show has made the right bet on its own political lineup.

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
12
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Christine Baranski is gone from The Good Wife, now that that series has ended on CBS, but she’s not through with the network quite yet. Tonight she returns, yet again, as Leonard’s tightly wound, highly critical mother, in a Big Bang Theory season finale that also makes room for other Emmy-winning guest stars portraying parents. Laurie Metcalf makes another appearance as Sheldon’s religious mom, and Judd Hirsch makes his first appearance – but most probably
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
12
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Was this the year that actual political events in presidential politics out-outrageousnessed the fevered imagination of Shonda Rhimes and her Scandal crew? So far, it seems so – but Scandal has tonight’s season finale to reclaim the crown. Kerry Washington stars. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
12
 
 
After a few episodes where the order was switched around at the last minute, last week’s scheduled episode of The Eighties was pre-empted entirely by breaking news. (What was breaking, I no longer remember.) So now, I have so little idea of whether or what The Eighties will be presenting, I’m keeping it simple. Tonight at 9 ET, CNN will show something related to the 1980s. Unless it doesn’t.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
12
 
 
Some of the funniest scenes in Orphan Black have Donnie paired with a clone other than his suburban wife Alison, as when he babysits disturbed killer Helena. Tonight, he gets paired with yet another clone, the brainy Cosima, as the two of them try to learn more about the Neolutionist fertility research facility. All of them, of course, are played by Tatiana Maslany, who is ridiculously overdue for some Emmy recognition.