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2019
Nov
19
 
 
Sama al-Kateab doesn't know it yet, but she's got one of the world's most riveting and sobering baby books...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
19
 
 
A decade ago, Waad al-Kateab stepped into a new life. She was 18 and idealistic...a freshman at the massive University of Aleppo, in Syria. Then war changed everything...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
18
 
 
Bob’s mom, Dottie, is being cared for at home now – but her preferred caregiver, Abishola, has stepped aside for Dottie’s children, Bob, Douglas and Christina. To Dottie, this is not an upgrade.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
18
 
 
Last week’s episode ended with a disturbing revelation – but one which made it even more clear why Ruth Wilson, who’s such an intense and powerful actress, agreed to star in this mystical mystery series. Playing her roles, she’s like a children’s poem: when she is good, she is very, very good. But when she is bad, she is… better. And now, as we all know, her Mrs. Coulter, who was pretending to be Lyra’s friend and protector, is very, very bad.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
18
 
 
As "Weekend Update" ended on Saturday Night Live (11/16), a memorial photo of Rick Ludwin was shown. That must have confused viewers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
17
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It doesn’t take long for Olivia Colman, who takes the baton from Seasons 1 and 2 star Claire Foy and inherits the starring role of Queen Elizabeth II, to hit the ground running. In fact, she establishes her royal command of the role instantly, in this new Season 3’s opening seconds. Foy was brilliant; Colman, as an elder version of the same complicated leader, is equally convincing and compelling. It may be the best tag-team acting since Robert De Niro and Marlon Bra
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
17
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 7 for Ray Donovan, and poor Ray (Liev Schreiber) has been having a very tough time of it. In previous seasons, he’s lost his wife, almost lost his daughter, and now, in a plotline with echoes of The Sopranos, this tough guy tries to work things out by seeing a therapist. But appointments are hard to schedule, because, once again, the police are after him. Something about a cop with a severed head… For a full review, please see Davi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
17
 
 
“Shane! Come back!” And he has. Tonight, in prime time, TCM presents this wonderful 1953 Western, directed by George Stevens with one eye on character and another on mood and action. Alan Ladd is great in the title role – but equally great, playing the roles of leading lady and ruthless villain, are Jean Arthur and Jack Palance. And Brandon De Wilde, as the boy who begs Shane to return, is memorably effective as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
17
 
 
Tonight, as tensions escalate between police and their elusive, menacing quarry, we get the origin story of Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) – or, as Jean Smart’s Laurie Blake calls him, “Mirror guy.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
17
 
 
Jeremy Allen White’s Lip has an even more weighty responsibility, as the father of a new baby. One Gallagher leaves on Shameless, as Emmy Rossum’s Fiona did at the end of last season, and another one, a very tiny and needy one, takes her place.