Walter Winchell was considered the second most famous man in America in the 1930s, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt. We still remember FDR today. Winchell? Well, his influence has outlasted his name...

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2020 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

The audience won’t be in the stands, much, but on TV, this pandemic World Series might well set viewing records. After all, what else is new? (Literally.) And there are two teams worth rooting for, both of which survived a Game 7 pennant series in their respective leagues to get here. Tonight, Game 1, with the Tampa Bay Rays against the Los Angeles Dodgers – pitting the two teams with the best records this season against one another for the 2020 crown.

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WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA By David Bianculli

Tonight is installment eight of Women Make Film, and the chapters of female film focus this week are “Home,” “Religion,” and “Work.” For films that are set in a convent, you hit all three topics at once. Among the films shown tonight after the documentary: At 5:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, the jaw-droppingly ambitious 1906 silent film by Alice Guy-Blaché, the 30-minute The Birth, The Life, and the Death of Christ (pictured), based on i

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AMERICAN MASTERS: "WALTER WINCHELL: THE POWER OF GOSSIP" By David Bianculli

Before he provided the narration for ABC’s The Untouchables, Walter Winchell was a super-successful, very influential gossip columnist. The power he wielded, and the way he wielded it, are the subject of this new American Masters cultural profile. Check local listings. For full reviews, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

2020

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TWO DOCUMENTARIES ON PBS THAT ARE WORTH WATCHING By Mike Hughes

Let's say you decide to turn Tuesday into a documentary film festival. You ignore the rest of TV – Voice, Bachelorette, even the World Series – and watch two PBS films back-to-back...

2020

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1973: ARCHIE BUNKER MEETS GEORGE JEFFERSON By TV WW

On this day in 1973, All in the Family's "lovable bigot" Archie Bunker finally met his next-door neighbor, George Jefferson...

2020

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1953: ARTHUR GODFREY FIRES JULIUS LA ROSA By TV WW

On this day in 1953, "The Old Redhead" Arthur Godfrey fired "Little Godfrey" singer Julius La Rosa during the live radio broadcast of Arthur Godfrey Time...

2020

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Cycle 19 for The Voice. And while repetition led to fatigue regarding my enthusiasm for this series a few years ago, I’m interested this time – because this NBC musical competition show has to work with, and around, the pandemic from the start. The judges, this time around, are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani (the show’s accidentally generated loving couple), along with John Legend and first American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. But ev

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JUST MERCY By David Bianculli

Michael B. Jordan stars in this 2019 movie, playing a Harvard-educated lawyer who pursues dangerous and politically volatile pro bono cases by traveling to Alabama in the 1980s to defend the poor – in particular, a Death Row inmate played by Jamie Foxx.

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