Somewhere on our globe, there’s a fire raging closer to a mostly forgotten pocket of nuclear waste – and the fire, like the radioactive material, is underground. That’s surprising enough, but what’s really surprising is where that hidden ticking danger is located: suburban St. Louis. Starting in 1942, a processing plant in that city supplied some of the uranium for our country’s first atomic bombs, the ones that eventually ended WWII. But the radioactive waste from

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CABARET By David Bianculli

Bob Fosse’s choreography for this 1972 film version of the famous musical, itself based on the semi-autobiographical prewar Berlin stories by Christopher Isherwood, is fabulous. Fosse’s work as film director, though, is even more superb, and he manages, in this version of the story, to make every musical number feel totally of the moment. Liza Minnelli became a star, and icon, as American-in-Germany lounge singer Sally Bowles, a hot mess of a central character, and Joel Grey earned j

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'HOMELAND' CONTINUES ITS FOCUS A BIT CLOSER TO HOME By David Hinckley

Finely attuned, as always, to the mood of the moment, this season’s Homeland is putting America first...

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'HERE AND NOW' TRIES TOO HARD BUT MAYBE THAT'S THE POINT By David Hinckley

If you hired a mad scientist to write This Is Us, you might end up with something like HBO’s new Here and Now...

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2018 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES By David Bianculli

If you’re after live coverage of events, the best place for most of them is NBC’s Olympics website, which will be live streaming throughout. On TV, in addition to NBC’s regular broadcast coverage today, sister networks also offer things to watch. The network’s sister-operation sports arm, NBCSN, begins coverage at 2:40 a.m. ET, continues until 9 a.m. ET, and returns at 1:30 p.m. ET for coverage that continues unbroken until 2:40 a.m. ET Monday. The USA Network, from 7-9:3

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2018 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES By David Bianculli

On NBC today, Olympic coverage is available, because it’s Sunday, from 3-6 p.m. ET, then again from 7-11 p.m. ET and 11:35 p.m.-1 a.m. ET. If you’re looking for live coverage, there are two events in the prime-time 7-11 p.m. block: team event gold medal final in figure skating, and giant slalom competition in women’s alpine skiing.

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OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: When Donald Trump announced his intention to run as a presidential candidate in June 2015, Stephen Colbert was on hiatus, having concluded his Colbert Report at the end of the previous year, and three months away from the premiere of his Late Show on CBS. He said then that he regretted the timing, and was worried that the entire Trump candidacy would come and go before Colbert had a platform on which to have fun with it. The rest, of course, is history. Colbert not only has lamp

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COUNTERPART By David Bianculli

The characters from this show’s alternate dimensions have begun to meet one another. It started with J.K. Simmons’ meek government worker coming face to face with his deadly counterpart from the other place. More recently, an assassin from that same other dimension crossed to this world and was arrested after her double here, a virtuoso violinist, was murdered. And last week, that assassin met both of Simmons’ doppelgängers, and much preferred the meeker version. This week

2018

Feb

THE GRAPES OF WRATH By David Bianculli

Tonight’s prime-time lineup in TCM’s month-long “31 Days of Oscar” schedule salutes some Best Director winners – starting with 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel that won that honor for director John Ford. Ford won on three other occasions, making him the most honored director in Academy Award history. In Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda stars, in the break-your-heart role of Depression-era everyman Tom Joad.

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VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, “The King Over the Water,” Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman) travels with her court, and with her husband Prince Albert, to the Scottish highlands – where the two of them have a great time evading their entourage and enjoying the privacy as well as the scenery. Check local listings.

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