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2020
Jun
12
 
 
Mary Jane Kennedy could fit most stereotypes of white, Southern privilege...And she has become, in her 60s, a gay-rights spokeswoman...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
12
 
 
Mr. Peepers ends its three-season run on NBC today in 1955...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
11
 
 
Amos 'n' Andy ended its two-season run on CBS on this day in 1953...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
11
 
 
LIMITED PREMIERE: The latest one-week streaming premiere from National Theatre at Home is the first production recorded from a staging outside of London. Working with another British performing troupe, the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, today London’s National Theatre presents its latest At Home fundraising special, available on its website and YouTube channel for the next seven days. It’s a telecast of the stage version of the 2018 production of Alan Bennett’s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
11
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Ryan Reynolds is one of the producers of this new ABC summer series, which is one of the more playful (and, one hopes, watchable) attempts by the network to pad out its hot-months prime-time schedule with cheap quiz and game show fare. And surprisingly, it’s an original idea, not a concept adapted from a crazily visual TV show from South Korea. (I’m talking to you, The Masked Singer.) The concept behind Don’t is to build elaborate tasks for
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
10
 
 
Twin Peaks ended its two-season run on this day in 1991...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
10
 
 
SPECIAL: Part 2 of 2. Oprah Winfrey has produced and will host, for her OWN Network, a brand-new two-part talk show special, which concludes tonight. This socially distanced special allows her to converse with guests about very current events, including the protests as well as the pandemic. Scheduled guests include Stacey Abrams, Ava DuVernay, Keisha Lance Bottoms, David Oyelowo, and others. And it’ll be simulcast widely: All of the 18 other Discovery sister networks in the U.S. will be sh
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
10
 
 
This latest and final season of this ABC Marvel universe drama has spent its first few episodes back in the pre-WWII 1930s. In doing so, it’s found a clever way to bring back occasional guest star Patton Oswalt, pictured, in a new role (or maybe, given the time-travel riff, an old one?). And tonight, it may take even better advantage of that particular time frame, by getting closer to the people around the origin of Captain America. But it better move fast. Next week’s episode, based
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
10
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode, about witches, was one of the show’s best installments yet – which means it was hilarious. Tonight is the final new show of season, which is the bad news. The good news is that FX already has renewed it for Season 3. The other bad news is: Who knows when FX will get to produce a Season 3?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
10
 
 
Six years before Sally Field portrayed the titular California surfer girl in ABC’s Gidget, Sandra Dee originated the role in this 1959 movie. Look at her, she’s Sandra Dee! And her co-stars include James Darren as Moondoggie, Cliff Robertson as The Big Kahuna, and Yvonne Craig, eight years before playing Batgirl on Batman, as Nan.