Because, and only because, NBC is presenting a special concert musical called Jesus Christ Superstar Live! this weekend, the network is presenting another special tonight, a salute to the composer of that musical’s music. (The lyrics are by Tim Rice, who apparently deserves much lower billing here.) When it first appeared in 1970, Jesus Christ Superstar was a rock opera, existing first on vinyl (Google it, kids) before finally working its way to Broadway, and launching Webber’s inter

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THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 6 of this excellent period spy show begins tonight, and the fact that it’s been announced as its final season only adds to expectations, and to the tension. When last we saw sleeper Soviet agents Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, he was getting out of the spy business, just as their teen daughter Paige was beginning to go all in. As tonight’s episode begins, it’s three years later, which brings us in the show’s storyline to 1987. The Berlin wall is on

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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

You’ve heard of Event Television? This is more like Vent Television. And the fuel that stokes Samantha Bee’s outrage just keeps on coming. Tonight, she presents a one-hour special, titled, and visiting and focusing on, “The Great American Puerto Rico.”

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'ROSEANNE' BARGES BACK ON, BUT WILL IT STILL FIT ABC By Ed Bark

As did NBC’s Will & Grace revival, ABC’s second coming of Roseanne (Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. ET) unburdens itself of the polarizing presidential election in Episode 1 before putting a stop to it and moving on...

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IN PRAISE OF ‘THE AMERICANS’ AND WHAT IT REVEALED ABOUT RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING THE REAGAN YEARS By Alex Strachan

First of all, no spoilers. Not here, anyway...

2018

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'DOLORES' TELLS THE STORY OF A RIGHTS ACTIVIST STILL AT IT IN HER EIGHTIES By David Hinckley

Dolores Huerta would tell you that you can’t win ‘em all. The thing is, she was hardly expected to win any of ‘em...

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'SPLITTING UP TOGETHER' GIVES ABC ANOTHER FAMILY-DRIVEN COMEDY WITH A PERSONALITY ALL ITS OWN By Ed Bark

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin chose to call it “conscious uncoupling” when they busted up in 2014. ABC has a better idea -- the snappy new comedy series Splitting Up Together...

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DOLORES HUERTA ON 'DOLORES' By Roger Catlin

When Lois Vossen, executive producer of Independent Lens was growing up in Minnesota, she had a direct connection to the subject of Dolores but didn’t know it...

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'THE TERROR' ARRIVES ON AMC By David Hinckley

AMC’s The Terror sounds like a horror series and it is. Just not in the way the title might lead TV viewers to expect...

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'SPLITTING UP TOGETHER' IS A LITTLE TOO PREDICTABLE By David Hinckley

Splitting Up Together is betting that we’ll watch likeable characters in a not terribly scintillating sitcom...

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