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2017
Sep
23
 
 
Saturday Night Live isn’t too far away from starting a new season – but for now, tuning in will get you an award-winning repeat from last season. Dave Chappelle is the guest host, making his first appearance as host. It was an appearance that ended up winning Chappelle his first Emmy Award, for Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
Hey network execs, just don’t say no to Mike Judge...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
You don’t have to have been caught in 125-mile-an-hour winds to have asked yourself in the last couple of weeks exactly what’s going on with hurricanes this year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
Hundreds of cop series over the years have reached for that intangible extra dimension and a small handful have found it: Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, The Wire...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 4 premiere of Transparent, and the new season begins with a very significant field trip: Jeffrey Tambor’s Maura is invited to deliver a speech in Israel, and decides to take her family along. But if you’ve watched this series enough to know her family, that’s not necessarily the smartest of plans.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Premiering today on Netflix, this is a new behind-the-scenes, but fully approved, documentary about Lady Gaga, showing her at home, in the studio, and preparing for her new album – called Joanne, and dedicated to a late relative. The special also is framed around her Super Bowl LI halftime show, beginning and ending with the moments leading to that triumphant appearance. We don’t see a replay of that Super Bowl show here, but we do hear Gaga sing several times (most
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But sometimes, when the wind blows as fiercely as it has lately, it helps to have the Science Channel schedule an instant special to look at, and explain, the sudden barrage of super-potent hurricanes attacking from the Atlantic.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new eight-part series is an animated show from Mike Judge, whose cartoon TV triumphs include Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill, and whose live-action TV triumphs include HBO’s current Silicon Valley. Here, he plays combination oral historian and visual storyteller, taking the actual recorded recollections of people involved with various touring musical acts and bringing them to life as half-hour cartoons. Judge also animates and records himself, as narrator an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
22
 
 
Tonight’s lineup sounds entertaining from start to finish. At the start, Bill Maher’s guest is Barney Frank. At the end, his guest is Bob Costas. And in between, his guests include Martin Short (pictured), who always seems to crack Maher up. Me, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
21
 
 
The previous chapter, "Resolve," began, in January 1966, 2,400 American soldiers had died in Vietnam...When “This Is What We Do” opens, just 18 months later, that number has ballooned to 14,624 — 75,000 American casualties in all — and the carnage is just beginning...