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2020
Nov
3
 
 
We’re getting near the end of this mammoth salute to female filmmakers. Tonight is installment ten of the Women Make Film documentary series, and the chapters of female film focus this week are genre-related: “Melodrama,” “Sci Fi” and “Horror and Hell.” The first segment, “Melodrama,” allows a close look at actress and writer-director Ida Lupino, whose bold (and boldly photographed) 1950 drama Outrage follows the docu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
3
 
 
LIVE SPECIAL: Jon Stewart, in his glory days, pioneered the importance of Comedy Central as a place to check in with on election night (and convention nights, and pretty much any night). Trevor Noah has been upholding and extending that tradition, even in a pandemic, and his interview earlier this year with Dr. Anthony Fauci was newsworthy, informative and inspirational – as well as very, very funny. He’s earned your trust, and the right to be listened to. I’m talking, of cours
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
3
 
 
LIVE SPECIAL: Four years ago, Stephen Colbert hosted a live election special on Showtime – a night that didn’t go as most people anticipated. Colbert ad-libbed a lengthy, thoughtful monologue about how our nation got so frighteningly divided, and so dividedly frightened, while his studio audience openly wept. But this year, four years later, things will be very, very different. Because of the pandemic, there is no studio audience. And I hope that’s not the only change
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
3
 
 
On this day in 1969, four public broadcasters joined together to form the non-profit public broadcasting television service, PBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
2
 
 
On this day in 2003, Fox debuted the critically-acclaimed sitcom, Arrested Development...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
2
 
 
This WWII movie came out of nowhere in 1970, the same year as Robert Altman’s MASH. And just as Altman’s film used the setting of the Korean War to present an anti-authoritarian war movie populated with characters with anachronistically modern attitudes, so did Kelly’s Heroes. It’s set during WWII, and ends up being not a traditional war movie, but more of a heist film – involving a cache of gold bars secreted behind enemy lines. And watch for Do
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
2
 
 
If you saw last Saturday’s fresh episode of Saturday Night Live, you already had a hefty helping of above-par SNL sketches. But here, on Election Eve, is a second helping – a collection of politically themed sketches from the SNL archives. By the way: Before becoming president, Donald Trump hosted SNL, in 2015 (pictured). Will this NBC special feature even a moment from that appearance – or will Trump be portrayed, exclusively, by SN
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
1
 
 
On this day in 1999, Bryant Gumbel moved to CBS to co-anchor, with Jane Clayson, that network's newest morning show, The Early Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
1
 
 
The horse has bolted the barn where COVID-19 is concerned but, even so, National Geographic Channel's Virus Hunters... is an eye-opening look at the day-to-day travails of virus researchers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
1
 
 
As our political season winds down, we can settle back and watch a different one. This one is fictional and British, and sometimes rather subtle...