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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...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
In this show’s final season, plot twists and personal triumphs and tribulations keep coming. On tonight’s new episode, Penny’s ex-boyfriend Zach (Brian Thomas Smith) decides to tackle the infertility problem between him and his wife with a somewhat novel approach: he asks Leonard to be the father of their baby by donating some sperm. Big bang indeed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
The second episode of this super-sized athletic-competition reality series is called “Whatever It Takes” – an approach that tonight’s contestants firmly embrace. Dwayne Johnson hosts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
SERIES RETURN: The Season 6 premiere of this series finds it at a new network: The first five seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine were shown on Fox, but after that network dropped the show, NBC quickly picked it up. The story line picks up where it left off, too. At the end of Season. 5, Jake (Andy Samberg) and Amy (Melissa Fumero) got married on Fox. Tonight, on the Season 6 premiere on NBC, they make plans for a honeymoon, with suddenly available cash.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
I adore this show. The more times I watch an episode, or the more closely I examine its set design and final credits, the more hidden jokes I find. And the more I read about philosophy, the more I almost begin to approach a limited understanding of what this show is really doing. In tonight’s new episode, the gang arrives in the actual Good Place for the first time – but only at a distant outpost. Meanwhile, Michael tries to alert the actual Good Place authorities that the Bad Place
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 
Broadcast TV’s best sitcom, The Good Place, returns Thursday to finish out its third season. Just don’t blink. The rest of the season consists of three episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jan
10
 
 

On Nina Dobrev’s last TV gig, she was dropped into a family of vampires. This time around, she’s got an annoying little sister. If you see her, be diplomatic and don’t ask which is worse...