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2016
Jun
22
 
 
Perhaps Leslie Moonves remembers this. Or possibly he’s chosen to forget...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
 
 
Raymond Massey is the star of this reverential biography of Abraham Lincoln in his formative years, but look who plays Mary Todd, his eventual wife and America’s eventual First Lady. She’s Ruth Gordon, co-star of the fabulous film Harold and Maude.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
 
 
This miniseries is about the family drama behind an influential megachurch. Oprah Winfrey co-stars, but also is an executive producer, and the drama is presented on her OWN network. So she’s serving it up like an Oprah’s Book Club selection: fully endorsed.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: And the unusual summer series keep coming from the broadcast networks. Tonight it’s American Gothic, a title last used for a marvelously dark CBS series starring Gary Cole as a cross between Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor and the Devil. This time, also for CBS, it’s a new story, a single-season mystery story. For full reviews, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new HBO sports talk series has gone out of its way to promote itself with opinionated, potentially controversial remarks by the show’s host. Now it comes to the hard part – the talk part. Opening guests: Charles Barkley, who’s no stranger at making controversial sports-relared remarks, and Bill Simmons’ fellow Bostonian Ben Affleck.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
 
 
So this prominent, respectable New England family has to cover up inconvenient details of an awful crime, because someone’s running for high political office and those details could derail those aspirations...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
21
 
 
If you watched last week’s series premiere – and, more to the point, if you liked it, here’s episode two. Ellen Barkin stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
21
 
 
SERIES FINALE: CBS certainly hasn’t supported this series with any commitment in its final season – but at least the network gave the producers enough warning so that they could write a proper ending to their series. And here it is: a war between surveillance machines, with our heroes taking one side, and hoping to elude and bring down the other.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
21
 
 
The filmed bits and sketches still outshine the ones performed in front of a studio audience, and that’s a ratio that has to be overturned for Maya & Marty to be a true variety show, much less a successful one. So here’s hoping, as we get another first-run episode tonight. In addition, many of the Broadway artists who recorded What the World Needs Now, to help The Center in Orlando, will perform it on the show tonight.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
21
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The executive producer of this new series on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is Oprah Winfrey, who’s also one of the supporting stars. It’s a drama about the family behind a megachurch in Memphis, with Keith David as the patriarch and Lynn Whitfield as the tough matriarch, who could give some of the Downton Abbey dowagers a run for their money.