DAVID BIANCULLI

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Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This Amazon kids’ show, about a trio of girlfriends who unleash magic through the recipes in a mystical cookbook, begins Season 2 with a new reality: the town’s long-standing spells are shattered, which leads to both good news (Dee Wallace is awake: hi, mom!) and bad (hi, teen villain who’s been on ice for 50 years!).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
Tonight’s new episode is called “The Last Day,” and it may be the last day on Earth, or of Earth. And as the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, trapped in some bleak alternate future, are about to learn, the key to righting the wrongs of their new future may lie in someone visiting from their old past.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Bill Maher returns for the start of Season 16 on HBO, and arrives, on live TV, just two hours before the threat of a scheduled government shutdown. Welcome back, Bill. Anything interesting happen while you were on break?  His guests tonight are set to include Michael Wolff (pictured), author of the Trump campaign and administration expose Fire and Fury – and that’s just his opening guest. Others include Andrew Sullivan and Larry Wilmore, so there’s no way
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
Portlandia’s final season has premiered and Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are still delivering top-shelf irony in this NPR-style podcast being done in the local police station...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
J. Edgar Hoover’s team had it right. Lorraine Hansberry was a commie...they just got one part wrong: Hansberry wasn’t trying to subvert America. She was trying to make it better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
19
 
 
It seems odd at first that the American Masters (PBS, 9 p.m. ET, check local listings) on the playwright Lorraine Hansberry seems longer than the film last week on PBS about James Baldwin...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
18
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, Raj dates a beautiful blonde named Nell, played by Beth Behrs from 2 Broke Girls, and all seems to be going well. Except she’s got a jealous husband, who’s played by the always entertaining Walton Goggins, who was even more menacing on FX’s Justified.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
18
 
 
Tonight’s new episode takes our heroes – Eleanor, Tahani, Chidi and Jason, with their android-ish companion Janet – to a new place. They’ve left the Good Place, which was a fake Good Place engineered and designed by Ted Danson’s Michael, and sought temporary refuge in the actual, foreboding Bad Place, which they, and we, will be seeing for the first time. This means the adoption of cover identities, which is why tonight’s episode is titled “Rhonda, Diana
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
18
 
 
There’s a new premiere today – not of a program, but of a newly rechristened network. As of today, the cable network formerly known as Spike TV will be known as Paramount – and marks the occasion with a special live edition of its Lip Sync Battle series, with celebrity contestants offering their interpretations of various hits by Michael Jackson. LL Cool J hosts. And for the record: Paramount now replaces Spike TV, which was launched in 2003, replacing The National Network, whi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
18
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Portlandia begins its final season tonight, with the start of Season 8. Many familiar faces, all played by the same dynamic duo, will be making their farewell appearances as the season proceeds… so enjoy, and take the time each week to say aloha to Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, and all their twisted and funny alter egos.