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2018
Dec
23
 
 
In England, a lot of the beloved TV shows that take off for a few months or more during the winter nonetheless take the time and effort to serve up new annual holiday episodes. Here’s the latest one from Call the Midwife. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
23
 
 
Family matters continue to get even more strained, as Mickey tries to enlist yet another of his sons into a questionable scheme. Meanwhile, Ray’s daughter continues to learn more about him, and isn’t very comfortable with what she’s learning.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
23
 
 
NONFICTION PREMIERE: This new Smithsonian special dives deeply into what is called the largest auction of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia ever put up for sale. “And it seems to me you lived your life / like a candle in the wind…” For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
23
 
 
MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Part 5 was a wonder to behold, with some especially impressive photography. Expect no less from tonight’s concluding Part 6, which provides the literal finishing touches.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
23
 
 
Saved for Christmas Eve eve, here’s the classic 1951 movie version of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, with Alastair Sim as a perfectly miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Which reminds me of yet another family holiday memory: One year when I was a teenager, and my dad was working until midnight one of the nights before Christmas, he asked me to decorate the house with some outdoor lights around the front bay window. I did – by writing out, in blinking giant letters, the word &ld
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
22
 
 
Killing Eve made my Top 10 of 2018 – a list, and conversation, you can catch in my recent chat with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. And if that news leads you to say, “Well, that’s another quality TV show I’ve got to add to my list to watch someday,” why put off until tomorrow what you can watch tonight? Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, BBC America is repeating the miniseries in its entirety, in one fabulous Saturday night lump. Sandra Oh stars as Eve,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
22
 
 
The first time Paul Simon appeared on Saturday Night Live was very early in its first season, in 1975. The most recent time he appeared was two months ago, and this show, hosted by Seth Meyers, is a repeat of that program. Among the performances, with arrangements and collaborators drawn from Simon’s just-completed (and outstanding) farewell concert tour, are “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and a dazzlingly original version of “Can’t Run But,” with Simon on vocal
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
21
 
 
Marvel’s Runaways feels like some odd little independent city-state standing alone in the middle of the Marvel Comic Universe. Kind of like the Vatican in the middle of Italy, only without a Pope...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
21
 
 
It wouldn’t be the platinum age of television without a steady flow of British period dramas, the kinds that are visual feasts even when the plots contain a lot of empty calories...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
21
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Olivia Cooke stars in this new miniseries version of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1848 novel, playing social-climbing Becky Sharp. One of the clever approaches of this particular adaptation is to cast Michael Palin as the author, who tells the story – allowing this new TV version to employ more of Thackeray’s prose stylings more directly. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.