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2019
Jan
12
 
 
On the understandable premise that we colonists can’t get enough of all things Royal, PBS will supplement the premiere of this year’s Victoria series with a documentary on Victoria’s real-life wedding...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
12
 
 
In long-distance racing, there’s a critical runner known as the rabbit. The rabbit starts out in the lead, forcing the other runners to maintain a certain brisk pace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
If you ever thought that all high school kids think about is sex, the first couple of episodes of the new Netflix series Sex Education will strongly suggest you were right...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
You really wish that Netflix’s Friends From College, which has a strong cast and a workable premise, would become a good show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: One of the collaborators on this series is Sam Mendes, which may explain this show’s commanding visual flair. It also has a very tricky structure: Each episode begins with a flashback to a mass shooting at a London coffeehouse, then a scene from a court case related to that shooting, and then – and only then – a narrative about how England’s counter-terrorism unit (the British equivalent of Jack Bauer’s CTU) came to recruit a new informant as it tar
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of this Hulu science-fiction comedy is even more warped than last season – because the future, as affected by this show’s time-traveling heroes, has become even more warped as well. Josh Hutcherson stars as Josh Futturman, a janitor and gamester who is tasked to save the future, but ends up continually altering it instead. Eliza Coupe returns as Tiger – and this season, Seth Rogen makes a brief appearance as well, portraying a character named… S
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In this imported Brtitish sex comedy, Asa Butterfield plays Otis, a high-school student whose life at home and at school seems hellish: He’s picked on or ignored at school, and when he gets home, he has to deal with the uncomfortable conversations and advice generated by his mom, Jean, who’s a professional sex therapist and couples counselor. Most of the students here look about a decade too old, and the premise – in which Otis begins counseling his fellow high
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
As part of the celebration of the founding of this excellent orchestra a century ago, tonight’s Great Performances features a gala concert conducted by music director Franz Welzer-Most, who has occupied that post for 17 years. Pianist Lang Lang is the featured artist for a program that includes, among many other pieces, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
11
 
 
Among tonight’s guests are Mary Poppins Returns co-stars Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda. And among the highlights: the moment when Miranda, prodded by host Graham Norton’s question about whether the creator of Hamilton still has the mastery of its dense lyrics, jumps from the couch to launch into an impromptu, letter-perfect, a cappella rendition of a healthy chunk of his “My Shot” number.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
It’s been nearly half a century since CBS dared to launch one of television’s all-time milestones, All in the Family. The network’s Fam, is also something of a benchmark...