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2019
Sep
16
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. The alleged celebrities gathered for this latest edition of Dancing with the Stars include Christie Brinkley, Ray Lewis, and James Van Der Beek – but the person sure to draw the most attention this time around is former White House spokesperson Sean Spicer. It’s hard to be outraged that a former White House official is sinking to appear on a reality competition show, since a reality competition host rose to occup
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
16
 
 
Episode Two of Country Music, which covers the years 1933-45 and spans The Depression and WWII, shows how both movies and the radio, as one surrendered to the other as the dominant entertainment medium, helped popularize country music. The movies gave us such singing cowboys as Gene Autry, and radio gave us Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
16
 
 
Last week’s episode took us up to New Year’s 1985. And now, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has to tack yet again, shifting to follow the winds to yet another unanticipated direction. The same may as well be said of every other character on this show – the ones who are still alive, that is. Except that Candy’s direction may be swayed by her new boyfriend, a wealthy power player portrayed by Corey Stall.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
16
 
 
In tonight’s episode, the circumstances of Muhammed’s murder are retraced and examined – which lays bare the actual motive behind the killing, and adds both nuance and fuel to an already incendiary true-life case.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
Be assured beyond any doubt. You'll get the ring, not the finger, by watching Country Music...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
If you imagine that Ken Burns' new PBS epic on country music would revolve around a bunch of grinning white guys wearing cowboy hats, you haven't been paying attention...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: With his multipart series Jazz, Ken Burns and company made a case for the originality and development of a quintessentially American musical genre. That was 18 years ago. And now, even more confident, accomplished and focused, Burns and his team turn their attention to Country Music, which has roots and tendrils that stretch to even more places in America’s history and emotional memory. Longtime Burns collaborator Dayton Duncan is the writer
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: I like it when like-minded, and similarly talented, artists get together to talk craft. I liked it, for example, when David Steinberg talked one-on-one with fellow comedians on his talk show Inside Comedy. And now here comes Paul Shaffer, the musical Zelig who ran the bands for both David Letterman’s talk shows and the early Saturday Night Live, not to mention a bunch of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, talking music one-on-one with a series of mu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
Peter Fonda died last month, and TCM is devoting tonight’s lineup to a prime-time double feature of his films. Starting things off at 8 p.m. ET is his late-career highlight Ulee’s Gold, from 1997, in which he stars as a loner and beekeeper. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, is his most famous film: 1969’s Easy Rider (pictured), in which he starred as a drug-running hippie biker opposite Dennis Hopper, who also directed, and a young wannabe actor named Jack Nicholson
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
15
 
 
The power play in play in tonight’s episode is so ruthless and obvious, and the stakes so high, that calling it a power play minimizes its nastiness. This is no game, and no one is playing.