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Given how many hour-long TV dramas these days shoot for funny – Scorpion, iZombie -- there’s no reason a half-hour sitcom can’t shoot for poignant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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The following favorable review of Downward Dog is not influenced by my surname, although you still might want to consider the source. After all, I was among a bare handful of TV critics who didn’t actively dislike ABC’s earlier talking creature sitcom, Imaginary Mary...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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This week’s newly streamed episode of The Handmaid’s Tale involves a political visit by the Mexican delegation – one that provides Serena Joy, played by Yvonne Strahovski, with the chance to display her importance, including her control over her handmaids. But she, too, is a woman, which makes her power play somewhat tenuous in this future society, where most women have been stripped of position, power, and many other freedoms. Elisabeth Moss stars as Offred, one of the handmai
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 10 finale, which is quite an impressive run for a broadcast TV series – and Modern Family isn’t through yet, and still is a very funny sitcom. In tonight’s episode, Manny reaches graduation day – an occasion significant enough to warrant the return of Manny’s biological father, played, once again, by recurring guest star Benjamin Bratt.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SERIES PREMIERE: This new three-part series, hosted by Michael Mosley and James Wong, explores the science behind food – why we crave the foods we do, why cooking foods certain ways accomplishes certain things chemically, and so much more. In Episode 1, “Food on the Brain,” the questions explored include why we are what we eat, why we eat, and why, in some cases, we overeat. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Last week, Ray Stussy tried to steal his older brother’s valuable postage stamp by donning a wig and shaving his facial hair, to look more like brother Emmit – and then to talk and bully his way into his brother’s safety deposit box. That ruse worked, but the stamp wasn’t there. So tonight, Ray dons the wig again, to carry out another half-baked (or quarter-baked) scheme: filming a blackmail sex tape, with Ray’s “Emmit” being shown in a compromising posi
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SEASON FINALE: Brockmire ends its first season tonight with some very good news: There will be a second season, because Brockmire has turned out to be IFC’s highest-rated new show. Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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No. 1 in total viewers for nine consecutive seasons and 14 of the last 15, CBS nonetheless is adding more newcomers to its fall schedule than any of its rivals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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U2 has set out on the road this month in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their milestone album “The Joshua Tree”. Back in the stone age, (mid-’80s) most of us could be found in front of MTV, watching hours of music videos... U2 could be frequently found there, and this cut, a live performance of “Where the Streets Have No Name” on an LA rooftop tore a page out of The Beatles “Let it Be” playbook...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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I’m under no illusion that a whole lot of people will be excited about a PBS show that recounts the history of the Carter Family and the Memphis Jug Band...