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2017
Sep
6
 
 
Another new edition spotlighting a classic album, this time from the Sixties: 1967’s Disraeli Gears, the second album by supergroup trio Cream. Guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker were the only musicians necessary to create this particular wall of sound, resulting in not only the iconic psychedelic hit “Sunshine of Your Love,” but also “Strange Brew,” “Tales of Brave Ulysses” and the ultra-odd “Mother’s Lament
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
6
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 of this comedy series picks up after the disastrous cliffhanger that ended Season 3, when Jimmy (Chris Geere) proposed to Gretchen (Aya Cash) – and then walked away, immediately and without explanation. The new season begins with both characters reeling in the aftermath – she’s wondering why he proposed then fled, while he’s hiding from life in general, and her in particular, by living in a retirement-village trailer park. And that’s where
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
5
 
 
Donald Trump’s election is the super-scary, aggressively unsubtle tipping point in FX’s seventh incarnation of American Horror Story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
5
 
 
Part 2 of 2. This 2015 biography of Walt Disney, especially in tonight’s concluding half, has some fairly significant omissions – but of what it includes, the best and most rewarding elements are the incisive discussions of how Disney’s full-length animated movies evolved. For that topic alone, this American Experience study is worth revisiting. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This sports discussion and highlights series launched in 1977 on HBO, and even though it was handed off to Showtime long ago, has continued its long run (though with lots of on-air personnel changes) for so long, it’s one of cable TV’s most tenured programs. Tonight, in fact, is the Season 39 premiere, setting up the first official NFL games of the new season, which roll out this week.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This new season of American Horror Story begins on Election Night 2016, with both liberals and conservatives watching televised election returns, with polar opposite reactions, as Donald Trump wins enough votes in the electoral college to ascend to the presidency. Sarah Paulson and Alison Pill – stars of Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Newsroom, respectively – play a liberal lesbian couple haunted (in some cases literally) in the wake of th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
5
 
 
Part 7. This is the penultimate episode of this series, and the one in which the FBI finally gets its man – or, at least, its search warrant, to surround and raid the isolated cabin of Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
4
 
 
If the late rapper Biggie Smalls returned for long enough to make a movie about his life, it would look exactly like A&E’s new Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
4
 
 
SERIES FINALE: The final two episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return premiered last night on Showtime – and if you missed them, are available again in this repeat doubleheader. Much of this series reboot annoyed more than enchanted me, I’ll admit, but once Dale Cooper finally was himself again, so to speak, I found myself leaning forward with anticipation, and disbelief, the same way I did when watching the original Twin Peaks in the Nineties. Wow, Bob, Wow... And with that final cliffhan
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
4
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: If you’re not at all into rap music, then this new A&E documentary is no B.I.G. deal. And if you prefer your documentaries to be more objective than reverential, then this music-filled biography, like the recent HBO documentary on Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, may disappoint more than impress. But, like that recent HBO effort, Biggie: The Life of the Notorious B.I.G. is full of colorful and surprising stories. It paints the life of Christopher Wallace as one full of l