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2020
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22
 
 
The art of social-distancing television has advanced quickly. It’s been like watching evolution at hyper-speed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
22
 
 
NBC's 3rd Rock from the Sun ended its run on this day in 2001...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
 
 
This day in 1990 marked the final telecast of CBS's Newhart...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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21
 
 
Rosalie Douglas’s world has been shattered to pieces. So imagine how happy she is when a stranger unexpectedly arrives with a glue gun. Unless, of course, it’s really a mallet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
 
 
For one week only, beginning today, National Theatre at Home makes available (on its website and YouTube Channel) a taped production from the Young Vic: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, the highly acclaimed 2014 production starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster. The former X-Files star plays Blanche duBois, with Foster as Stanley Kowalski, and Vanessa Kirby as Stella.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
 
 
SPECIAL: Feel trapped in your surroundings? Keep thinking how nice it would be to get out? Well, here comes Jack Black, playing the host of Celebrity Escape Room, in which a small group of celebrities works together – most of the time – to try and solve clues and escape from their confining environment. Ben Stiller and Adam Scott are two of the players, and they’re joined by some Friends. Specifically, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. It’s part of the Re
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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21
 
 
Written and directed by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also co-starred) and Terry Southern (who didn’t), this 1969 movie – Hopper directed it as well – exploded onto the scene as one of the instantly iconic movies of the Sixties. As a drama about the decade’s generation gap, and also the gaps between hawks vs. doves, rednecks vs. hippies and old vs. young, Easy Rider is about as blatant, and representative, as it gets. All that, and a young actor named Jack
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
 
 
SPECIAL: The annual Red Nose Day is aimed at raising money to combat childhood poverty, and this year’s NBC telecast earmarks its fundraising efforts for children affected by COVID-19. It’s hosted by Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley from the network’s This Is Us. And while this will,  by circumstance, be another celebrity charity events where most contributors all but literally phone it in, it’s quite a guest list: Bryan Cranston, Julia Roberts, James Ta
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
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21
 
 
As America struggles to wind down another war that has not gone well, National Geographic is using the Memorial Day weekend to remind us of those who fought the last war that did...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
20
 
 
Today brings the premiere of Episode 8 of Mrs. America, which is titled “Houston.” It refers to the site of the National Women’s Conference, which is a battle ground for both the pro and con sides of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Sarah Paulsen as Alice, and Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem, really get to shine in this new episode.