How do you salute sci-fi space films properly without including George Lucas’s 1977 blockbuster? It introduced the franchise, and now is retitled Star Wars: A New Hope. And the answer is, you don’t. So TCM has it… and is showing it tonight. Also shown this evening, as part of the lineup: 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (at 12:45 a.m. ET) and 1976’s Logan’s Run (at 6 a.m. ET).

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NETFLIX’S ‘THE GREAT HACK:’ HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA WAS HARVESTED AND SWUNG THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN By Alex Strachan

Cambridge Analytica, John Oliver noted in a Last Week Tonight monologue last season, is not the Latin, scientific name for John Oliver, sadly. Would that it was...

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EXPERIMENT IN TERROR By David Bianculli

In 1962, director Blake Edwards and composer Henry Mancini teamed for this tense bank-heist drama, starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick. Ford plays the good guy, trying to help Remick, who plays a bank employee being forced to steal from her own bank. The mastermind behind the robbery has abducted her younger sister, and threatened to kill her unless the older sister follows instructions. The villain is played by Ross Martin, a few years before he co-starred in The Wild Wild West, and th

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YEARS AND YEARS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: Tonight brings the final installment of Russell T. Davies’ hauntingly memorable futuristic drama (and really: wasn’t the body-strewn beach scene one of the most gripping TV scenes yet of this TV season?). In the drama, the episode begins in the year 2029 – only a decade from now. But given what’s happened to the characters, and in politics, it seems a lot longer. And a lot scarier.

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LEGION By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode focuses on Syd, and provides a potential back story – starting with infancy, as it did when introducing David, her eventual boyfriend, enemy, quarry, and now what? Things have a way of shifting on Legion. How did the narrator introduce last week’s opening-tease synopsis of recent events and clips from the show? Something like “Purportedly on Legion”?

2019

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ISSA RAE BRINGS EXCITING AND FRESH COMEDY TO TV. AGAIN. By Mike Hughes

TV has always been fond of sketch comedy. It's gone from Sid Caesar and Milton Berle to The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live. It's had the full range of people, as long as your range consists primarily of white males...

2019

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THE STORY OF BATMAN'S ALFRED WITH 'PENNYWORTH' ON EPIX By David Hinckley

An origin story for the butler might feel like sweeping up crumbs from the story table, but as Downton Abbey proved when it told us that Carson the butler once anchored a dance team in music halls, that’s not necessarily always the case...

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A CHAT WITH THE NEW VICAR FROM 'GRANTCHESTER' By Mike Hughes

For MASTERPIECE fans, waiting for the new vicar on Grantchester is like waiting for Halley's Comet or a Cubs pennant. It takes patience, but yes, it's worth it...

2019

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THE MOVIES: "THE SEVENTIES" By David Bianculli

I’m really looking forward to this episode, because the 1970s were a hugely important period for the cinema. Some of the best and boldest movies of modern times came from that decade, from Dog Day Afternoon, Klute and All the President’s Men to A Clockwork Orange, The Parallax View and Deliverance. But that type of filmmaking was set aside, for the most part, by the arrival of the blockbuster movie, a box-office-shattering phenomenon that inclu

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PENNYWORTH By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, who teamed for Fox’s Batman prequel series Gotham, have come up with something even more backward-looking – a pre-prequel. Whereas Batman focused on the costumed crimefighter, and Gotham showed a younger Bruce Wayne as he developed into a secret avenger with help from his loyal family butler Alfred, Pennyworth goes back to London in the swinging Sixties to follow the butler himself &ndas

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