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2017
Jul
25
 
 
This is worth noting: Tonight’s guest judge on World of Dance, sitting next to Jennifer Lopez and others, is Misty Copeland, who was the first African-American principal ballerina for the American Ballet Theatre.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
25
 
 
What if they threw a fundraiser and everybody came? “Take Off, Eh,” held on July 18 at Second City Toronto, featured the reunion of Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as SCTV’s Bob & Doug McKenzie, to raise money for Jake Thomas, Dave’s nephew...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
If after a few weeks of July heat you’re ready to cool off with a Christmas movie, the Canadian series Murdoch Mysteries has a candidate as inviting as a plate of tree-shaped sugar cookies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
Midnight, Texas, is an outsider’s town where you go when the rest of the world feels too complicated. Midnight, Texas is also a new NBC summer TV series where you might go if you think the rest of television is too easy to understand...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
Tonight is Ava Gardner night on TCM – and the evening begins with 1954’s The Barefoot Contessa, a movie which shows off her confident and alluring sex appeal. (Then again, which movie of hers doesn’t?)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: True Blood fans have reason to be excited by this new NBC series – but only in theory. It’s based on a series of novels by Charlaine Harris, the author of the original True Blood stories, and it’s another small-town tale of a place where vampires, witches, shapeshifters and other supernatural creatures coexist, however uneasily. But HBO had series creator Alan Bell to make sense and sensuality of it all – and this NBC series is more like a vampire with ba
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
Joe’s Violin, one of the offerings tonight on P.O.V., was an Oscar-nominated documentary short subject, and now makes its TV debut. Kahane Cooperman directs this unexpected story about a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, a 12-year-old Bronx schoolgirl, and a prized possession. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Last week, HBO presented a four-part documentary profile of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine that told very interesting stories, but suffered a bit from a lack of objectivity. You could level the same criticism against this new documentary of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her relationship with sons Harry and William – but since it’s overseen by the princes themselves, on the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death, the value of it is in its perspective, not its j
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This out-of-this-world comedy – well, technically, an aliens-infiltrating-this-world comedy – begins its second season tonight. The truth is out there, and the extraterrestrials are down here. So now what?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jul
24
 
 
HBO won the Princess Diana anniversary sweepstakes...