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2019
Jan
16
 
 
The fall of Saddam Hussein is well known to many, though young adults may find the story unfamiliar and surprising. But the rise of that Iraqi dictator, who ruled that country as President from 1979 until 2003, is just as dramatic – and instructive. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
16
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This new Syfy series is set in the 1980s, which allows for some enjoyable period music played on the soundtrack and as part of the natural atmosphere. It’s about a school for misfits and outcasts with special talents and powers, and is based on the 2014 graphic novel series by Rick Remender (who’s one of the executive producers and overseers here) and his several artist co-creators. Time and sensitivities have resulted in some changes fo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
16
 
 
As our unfortunate friend Preacher illustrates, the best graphic novels don’t always turn into the best TV shows. So it’s a pleasure to report that the new kid on this block could turn out to be a killer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
16
 
 
You’ll make the grade in Syfy’s Deadly Class if you’re getting consistently high marks in AP Black Arts, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Poison Lab and Dart Workshop...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
Florida’s Everglades, which once covered the lower half of that large state, is the home to alligators, poisonous snakes and mosquito clouds thick enough to darken the sun...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
Roswell, New Mexico certainly picked the right moment to return to prime-time television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
MIDSEASON RETURN: The cliffhanger finale for the first half of the season had Randall’s election campaign in jeopardy, and a major shakeup from the past delivered in the Vietnam story line, with Jack’s brother Nicky (Michael Angarano) revealed to have survived the war. Tonight, those story lines, and others, continue.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
Lauren continues to get more powerful – which prompts the evil Frost sisters to dispatch a hit team of other mutants to neutralize her. We’re getting near the end of the season, so the confrontations are getting more serious, and consequential, all the time…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. The original Roswell series, which premiered in 1999 on the WB, imagined that the population of Roswell, N.M., was dotted with residents whose ancestors had experienced some very close encounters with aliens who crashed there in 1947. The series pilot of that show, like that of this revisiting remake, was built around a hybrid alien-human who used his powers to save the life of a human high-school classmate, and a town celebration of the original Ro
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
15
 
 
This new documentary about Florida’s Everglades hits all sorts of chords with me. I grew up in South Florida – specifically, in Fort Lauderdale in Broward County – yet never knew, until watching The Swamp, that the county in which I lived was named after a Florida governor, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, who had grand plans to populate South Florida and, as they say, drain the swamp. An earlier man with similar plans was Hamilton Disston, who purchased 4 million acres of South Flo