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2017
Apr
6
 
 
To the casual viewer who just likes a good tense police mystery drama, the Swedish series Jordskott seems to be exactly that right up until the moment we suddenly realize it’s also a sci-fi horror story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
6
 
 

Don Rickles has died, at age 90 – leaving behind a legacy of some hilarious TV clips from the 1960s and beyond. With Rickles, there are more personal elements as well: I remember fondly my Fresh Air interview with him in 2007, and Eric Gould, one of our TVWW editors, owes his very life to Don Rickles…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
A friend who’s just discovered The Good Fight told me the other day that she can’t believe how much she’s enjoying it. In the next breath, she  admitted she’d never seen The Good Wife. This is the kind of admission that demands instant cross-examination...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
IFC’s Brockmire -- a seemingly sad story about a washed-up, alcohol-abusing, former major league play-by-play announcer attempting to rebound from a personal crisis happens to be the best new comedy of 2017 to date.  It is also the funniest...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
Watching 13 hours about a teenage girl killing herself may not sound like the most enticing of the many choices on television these days. Trouble is, suicide is a choice too many real-life teenagers make...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
Sterling Archer meets Humphrey Bogart this season, and it’s about time. Archer, the title character in television’s finest animated detective dramedy, ended last season in a coma...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
This series, over the years, has embraced parties in general and costume parties in particular. Tonight’s episode, “Frank’s Wedding,” guest stars Fred Willard, making a return appearance as Phil’s dad, Frank, who’s getting married – to Lorraine (Faith Prince), Phil’s former babysitter. And Phil, being a good son, persuades his clan to honor his dad’s wish for a fun costume-theme-party wedding, except that they’re the only ones who arriv
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: At the end of Season 7, Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) didn’t look well. He was lying in a pool, fully clothed, bleeding to what looked like certain death. But Season 8 picks up a few months later, and Archer isn’t dead yet. Just comatose – and in his coma, he’s reimagined himself as a film noir gumshoe, with all the people he knows playing roles in his new imagined universe, fittingly called “Dreamland.” Think of it an a cartoon Singing Detective,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In this bawdy new IFC series based on a Funny or Die short, Hank Azaria plays Jim Brockmire, a broadcast-booth baseball announcer trying to bounce back after a decade-old on-air flameout so famous, it’s still a YouTube hit 10 years later, as Brockmire returns to the United States after a decade overseas and without the Internet. Amanda Peet plays the owner of a small-town minor-league baseball team so desperate, it’s changed its team name to the Frackers as a step up
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
Another week, another jolt of outrage. Go for it, Sam…