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2017
Jul
11
 
 
This competitive fantasy makeup show is hit and miss, but when it has a good theme of the week, the competing makeup artists can be stretched in entertainingly diverse directions. Tonight’s assignment: Design makeup for a creature that would be likely to emerge from one of the nine circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. Expect inordinate representation from the Second Circle, which contains hellbound victims once consumed by lust (Cleopatra, Helen of Troy). Fun fact: When I was 15, an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
11
 
 
They say that after the death of a spouse, it’s good to be surrounded with people. They never met the people who surround Cathy Walker...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
All these years later, the ploy’s the thing with William Shakespeare. How can the fabled bard’s life and times be cleverly exploited anew in hopes of luring a new generation of younger viewers?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
Imagine William Shakespeare not as a dignified and revered master playwright, but as a scrappy young dreamer who looks like he could have stepped out of a Twilight movie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
Wil Wheaton, the young crew member on Star Trek The Next Generation and Sheldon’s nemesis on The Big Bang Theory, shows up tonight to play with the resident improv comics of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
Part 2. This documentary on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine continues, with the same obsequious perspective on their respective musical careers. The stories told are good ones, though, if you can accept them as overly fawning. One, in tonight’s installment, explains the origins of the Tom Petty-Stevie Nicks duet on “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” Not to be Petty, but it's one of the best stories told tonight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: ABC’s current Still Star-Crossed provides a sequel of sorts to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but without any real verve, style, or reason to watch. Tonight’s new TNT series, Will, seeks inspiration from Shakespeare, too, but this time from the playwright, not his plays. It’s been done before, of course, in Shakespeare in Love and in several other attempts, incuding the 1978 British miniseries Will Shakespeare: His Life and Times, starring Tim Cu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
This season, P.O.V. has been highlighting films about the crisis in Syria – and tonight, the program ends that multi-week salute by showing the TV premiere of Last Men in Aleppo, a documentary about the volunteer organization known as the White Helmets, who provide aid to residents caught in the cross-fire of the uprisings and military crackdowns in Syria. Last Men in Aleppo, directed by Feras Fayyad, just won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Ch
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
10
 
 
There are just two things you need to know about the Emmys this year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
9
 
 
The collaboration between entrepreneur Dr. Dre and producer Jimmy Iovine may not be the most unlikely in the recent history of popular music, but it’s certainly been the most lucrative...