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2018
Sep
27
 
 
Two seismic Sundays have set the table for a weekend of golf that might very well be one for the ages. Golf? In autumn?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
The Circus, the Showtime political documentary that captures newsgathering and politicians on the fly, presents a new installment this Sunday – and makes room for one of the more recent accusers of Brett Kavanaugh, whom President Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the real political circus is televised live this morning, beginning at 10 a.m. ET, when testimony about his alleged sexual assault on Christine Blasey Ford is heard, with both Kavanaugh and Ford telling the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This comedy already has reinvented itself so imaginatively that it’s emerged as the best current comedy on broadcast TV. Tonight it begins Season 3 – and The Good Place, more so than most television shows, really could spin off into just about any direction. Ted Danson, Kristen Bell star. Highly recommended – and tonight, it returns with an expanded one-hour episode.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Give props, if not attention, to two of the impressively long-running scripted drama series returning tonight. Exhibit A: ABC’s Season 15 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Give props, if not attention, to two of the impressively long-running scripted drama series returning tonight. Exhibit B: NBC’s Season 20 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which is inching closer to eclipsing the longevity record of its parent program, Law & Order.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In one very real sense, tonight’s TV return of Candice Bergen as liberal TV newswoman Murphy Brown could be considered the show’s Season 11 premiere. But enough time has passed – 20 years, in fact – that this new Murphy Brown, with original series creator Diane English writing tonight’s return script, is in fact a different sort of animal. This time, the primary twin targets are politicians and the media, and this 2018 version of Murphy takes immedi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
27
 
 
The past year’s two other cast reunion reboots of note, Will & Grace and Roseanne, fired up the Donald Trump jokes in their first episodes before turning to other matters in subsequent episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
 
 
ABC’s new sitcom Single Parents has to have been created by someone with young children at that critical age when parents think every crazy detail is fascinating. It’s not. And neither is Single Parents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
 
 
Dean Martin month (at least on Wednesdays) concludes with a batch of his most Sixties-reflective spy spoofs, with him playing the suave, playful Matt Helm. The evening begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1966’s The Silencers, and Martin’s female co-stars in his Helm movies are just as noteworthy, and eye-catching, as the so-called Bond girls in the 007 series. In The Silencers, Martin’s co-stars include Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Nancy Kovack and Cyd Charisse.  At 10 p.m. ET, it&rs
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 22 for this animated series. Stop and think of that for a second. Then think about how consistently the makers of this series have not only skewered sacred cows, but butchered and barbequed them. And tonight, South Park takes on one of the most third-rail topics of them all: school shootings, through the prism of gun ownership.