I’ll repeat the same thing I said last week: the more of these installments are shown, the more its point is made that there are way too many mass shootings in the U.S. This week’s documentary is about the 2012 mass shooting in the Wisconsin town of Oak Creek, where the target was a Sikh temple and the people praying within.

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

The lineup for tonight’s show, if they all show up, sounds like it will make for the most power-packed and entertaining Real Time of the past few years. The guests are Donna Brazile, author of her controversial memoir as a Democratic Party insider, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, and outspoken comic Sarah Silverman (pictured). Sounds like an all-liberal panel for once – but it also sounds contentious, and very, very interesting.

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MISSY PEREGRYM ON SCARLETT HARKER AND SYFY’S ‘VAN HELSING’ By David Hinckley

Missy Peregrym doesn’t waste a lot of time warming up before she jumps into battle on Syfy’s Van Helsing...

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Sheldon begins working with Bert (played by recurring guest Brian Posehn) on a geology problem. Bert, of course, used to have a crush on Sheldon’s girlfriend, Amy – but now the jealousy in this particular triangle may be coming from a slightly different direction.

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Characters in this show rise and fall like Wall Street stocks: On top one week, and plummeting dangerously the next. This week, Gordon is up, offered the role of captain of the Gotham City Police Department, while his partner Bullock is down. And in other venues, among those on the rise are the three women about to call themselves the Sirens (pictured) – and determined to execute a power grab in Gotham, at the expense of the current thug in control, the Penguin.

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ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM By David Bianculli

This 1946 movie uses the same plot later extrapolated as a musical in The King and I, but this one is colorless – that is, it’s in black and white – and relatively, but not completely, musicless. Irene Dunne plays Anna Owens, the Englishwoman who, in 1862, accepted a job as the private tutor for the children of the King of Siam. He’s King Mongkut, played by Rex Harrison. Other Siamese roles also went to familiar Hollywood faces, including Linda Darnell as Tuptim and Gale

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YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

Last week’s second episode of Young Sheldon, unveiled after a long hiatus following the advance preview of the series premiere, established the show as a solid spinoff of The Big Bang Theory. Tonally, the biggest difference – requiring a slight adjustment from viewers – is that, unlike its parent program, Young Sheldon has no studio audience or laugh track. But the laughs are there. Iain Armitage, in the title role of Sheldon Cooper, is perfectly cast and wonderfully deadpan. Z

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'DANCES WITH CHEETAHS': WILDLIFE FILMMAKER KIM WOLHUTER FILMS CHEETAH FAMILY ON FOOT FOR PBS NATURE SPECIAL By Alex Strachan

If there’s one thing lifelong conservationist and wildlife filmmaker Kim Wolhuter hopes viewers will take away from Wednesday’s PBS Nature special The Cheetah Children, it’ll be a sense of wonder for what remains of the natural world...

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HUGO By David Bianculli

I show this 2011 Martin Scorsese movie in my Film History and Appreciation I class, because its a tale about a young orphan living secretly in the inner workings of a Paris train station in 1931 that slowly, and slyly, becomes much more than that. It ends up being an appreciation, and a sugar-coated, painless-to-swallow history, of the early days of cinema. It’s a total delight, and to say any more would be to dilute some of those delights. The cast is charming, and includes sweet supporti

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THE 51ST COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS By David Bianculli

Tonight is the 51st Country Music Association awards show – and for almost 20 percent of that run, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood have served as co-hosts. This is their 10th consecutive time appearing as joint emcees, and the scheduled performers include Miranda Lambert (pictured), Luke Bryan, Garth Brooks, Little Big Town, Alan Jackson and others.

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