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2017
Apr
3
 
 
Continuing with their development model, the streaming channel has recently released its annual crop of pilots, and there are two which should find audience interest...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
When Kim Snyder decided to make a documentary on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., she didn’t want simply to plunge back into the darkness...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
This is the second of two Monday marathons of old, carefully selected Breaking Bad episodes shown by AMC in anticipation of the coming Season 3 of Better Call Saul – my favorite current TV series. These are the best episodes featuring Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman, the leading character in progress in this show’s Better Call Saul prequel, and Giancarlo Esposito as drug (and fast-food chicken) kingpin Gus Fring. He’s an actor, and a character, who will make his first Better Call
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
This 2010 documentary profile of Harry Nilsson, an engrossing and enlightening piece of work, is written and directed by John Scheinfeld, who probably got interested in this story, and this famously reclusive and impulsive musical star, when working on his 2006 documentary, The U.S. vs. John Lennon. Lennon and Nilsson became (very) fast friends – they were together, drunk, the night Lennon heckled the Smothers Brothers during their infamous comeback nightclub appearance. But Nilsson, who p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
Amazon has released their annual crop of new pilots and one, The Legend of Master Legend starring John Hawkes (Deadwood, Winter’s Bone) should be a sure-fire audience favorite... Turn's out the show is based on the self-styled real-life superhero in Orlando, Florida...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
Beginning tonight, we’re at the Knockout Rounds – single performances that determine whether contestants move on, unless judges “steal” the losing competitors at the end by adding them to their respective rosters. That wrinkle adds to the drama, but there’s plenty of that already, as the singers try to absorb and reflect the advice given them by their judges and guest mentors.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
The 2017 TCM Class Film Festival is held later this week – and as a taste of things to come, the network presents the premiere of a special built around one of last year’s key festival events: Ben Mankiewicz interviewing Faye Dunaway, who talks about her impressive movie career. And tonight, this special is followed by two of Dunaway’s very best performances, in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde (at 9:15 p.m. ET) and, pictured, 1976’s Network (at 12:30 a.m. ET).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
Two No 1. seeds meet for tonight’s 2017 Men’s Basketball Championship game – so how can one be considered an underdog? Well, the North Carolina Tar Heels (pictured) are competing to win their sixth NCAA championship, while the Gonzaga Bulldogs not only are trying to with their first championship – but despite the team’s ranking, have never even made it to the Final Four before.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
 
 
There’s a commonly used phrase these days, “Jumping the Shark,” used to pinpoint the moment when a TV series starts to lose its way, big-time. (Example: The final seasons of Dexter.) But there ought to be a name for the reverse, when a show suddenly finds its mojo and gets significantly even better. That’s been the case, all this season, with Bates Motel, which, as it gets closer to its rendezvous with the familiar plot line from Psycho, has gotten amazingly clever, creep
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
2
 
 
It really would be best for all concerned to never ever believe that a prominent TV character is truly dead.