SERIES PREMIERE: Ricky Gervais stars in this new Netflix series, and also wrote and directed it. He plays a recent widower living a morose and solitary life (except for his dog), going through the paces of visiting his ailing father (who has dementia) and working at a tiny local “free” newspaper (where he’s assigned pitifully dull feature stories). Co-stars include the endearing Ashley Jensen, from Ugly Betty and Gervais’ own Extras – and, as always, there’s a

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JUANITA By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Alfre Woodard stars in the title role of this new Netflix movie, playing a woman who tires of her life as a taken-for-granted one-woman support system for her three grown children, her grandchildren and others. So this “giving tree” rips up her roots and heads impulsively to Montana, where she meets new people, gets a new job, and has intermittent fantasy conversations with her dream man, Blair Underwood. The part of Blair Underwood is played by Blair Underwood. And A

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BYE BYE BIRDIE By David Bianculli

Jesse Pearson, who plays the Elvis-like rock star in this 1963 movie musical, didn’t get much traction out of this film, but others did. Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh already were stars, thanks to TV’s The Dick Van Dyke Show and the movie Psycho respectively, and Ed Sullivan, playing himself, had been a TV mainstay since 1948. But Ann-Margret, who played a Birdie-brained teen and danced with wild enthusiasm in the opening credits, stole the movie before it even got started. Bye Bye B

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests, after a week of anti-Semitism charges in Congress and presidential debate charges against Fox News, include author Noah Rothman and political commentator Michael Steele.

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'MADE IN HEAVEN' DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley

For some odd reason, Amazon Prime’s new drama Made In Heaven kept reminding me of the USA series Suits. Except that Made In Heaven, which becomes available Friday, revolves around wedding planners instead of lawyers...

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WITH 'AFTER LIFE,' RICKY GERVAIS BRINGS BITTERNESS AGAIN BUT INCLUDES SOME POSSIBLE SWEETNESS THIS TIME By David Hinckley

Ricky Gervais has had a remarkably consistent modus operandi throughout his successful comedic career...

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SEASON 2 OF 'TIN STAR' DEBUTS ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley

In just the first episode of Season 2 of Tin Star, Amazon Prime’s dark police drama, almost all the major characters at some point look like goners...

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THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

In this new episode, Bernadette and Penny head to Las Vegas to attend a pharmaceutical convention. And what happens in Vegas, as you know, stays on CBS…

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GOTHAM By David Bianculli

This week’s episode is particularly divorced from reality. Jim Gordon has a long hallucinatory dream in which he imagines himself bring put on trial for his actions, many of which apparently still haunt him. And elsewhere in what’s left of Gotham, young Bruce Wayne finds himself bewitched by the young woman soon to be known as Poison Ivy.

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