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2020
Jun
28
 
 
On this day in 1973, NBC introduced the summer variety series, The Helen Reddy Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
More episodes of the mid-’60s Western-spy series mashup are presented today on Decades – and by the afternoon, we’re into Season 2, which means the episodes, beginning with September 1966, are in color. Watch for a full-color appearance by Michael Dunn as recurring villain Dr. Loveless (at 6 p.m. ET), as well as a guest appearance, in an episode shown at 8 p.m. ET, by both Sammy Davis Jr. (pictured, with Robert Conrad’s Jim West and Ross Martin’s Artemus Gordon) and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
In last week’s premiere telecast, HBO established the tone, setting and central characters of this eight-episode prequel to the classic Erle Stanley book and TV series. Tonight comes episode two, with the plot thickening, and with down-on-his-luck private eye Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys) getting closer to the grisly murder case of a kidnapped baby.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This six-part documentary is based on the book by Michelle McNamara. Like that book, which was completed after her death by a researcher and crime writer selected by her widower,  comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, this miniseries by filmmaker Liz Garbus, also with Oswalt’s cooperation, continues and extends McNamara’s work. McNamara became interested in violent crimes and criminals, and survivors of those attacks, when a woman was killed nea
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This is the last episode of the season. And while last week, there was a tense yet ultimately tender reconciliation of the Vega family members at the center of this period story, don’t expect two happy endings in a row. But do expect both Nathan Lane and Natalie Dormer to stand out, and fight fiercely…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
On Friday, Bill Maher said goodbye for a month, with his current-events comedy series to return after a long break, but in time for convention and election coverage. That leaves the field wide open for the likes of Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert on The Late Show – and my favorite of them all, John Oliver here on HBO.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
28
 
 
Brace yourself if you want to watch I’ll Be Gone In the Dark...about the hunt for a California serial rapist and murderer. It’s a ride down 40 miles of bad road...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
27
 
 
This day in 1966 marked the debut of the gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows on ABC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
27
 
 
Another weekend, another welcome marathon from Decades. This time it’s of CBS’s The Wild Wild West, the bizarre mash-up of Westerns, comic-book villains and secret-agent capers that showed up on TV in 1965. That was when the traditional television Western, which ruled the airwaves as recently as 1959, was on the wane – and when the spy craze, thanks to the introduction of James Bond films, was all the rage. So in comes James T. West, a government spy under orders from
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
27
 
 
Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland in this 2019 biographical study, and plays her at a particular time in the singer’s life: the late 1960s, when Garland was filming a series of London stage shows as a late-career comeback. Probably to avoid either rights fees or lawsuits, or both, there’s little in this film about Liza Minnelli (though her siblings are included) – but Zellweger’s central performance, in the title role, is indeed something to see. And hear, because