National Theatre at Home concludes its what-a-gift season of TV recordings of stage plays from its archives with this 2016 revival of the Peter Shaffer play Amadeus. And what a great way to bring down the curtain on a series of wonderful stage performances, because Amadeus, the story of the musical rivalry between Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, began life as a National Theatre production in 1979. Paul Scofield starred as Salieri then, with Simon Callow as Mozart

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30 ROCK: A ONE-TIME SPECIAL By David Bianculli

The promos for this one-shot 30 Rock special are hilarious – but whether and where you can see it depends upon your location and ingenuity. Tina Fey and company designed this One-Time Special as a one-hour comedy, parody and promotional vehicle, with a plot built around the no-longer-in-person NBC upfronts (which promote the planned fall season to advertisers), including either actual or tongue-in-cheek promos for NBC Universal shows and its brand new Peacock streaming

2020

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KILLER CAMP By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This five-part British import is a reality show with a pretend deadly twist. Imagine a Survivor-type reality competition show in which, when a contestant is eliminated at the end of each episode, he or she is eliminated in a literal sense. As in murdered. It’s all pretend – but once the game begins, the players are in it to survive as best they can.

2020

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'THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS,' STARRING LAURA CARMICHAEL, IS A STRONG PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER By David Hinckley

Honestly, it's a little uncomfortable to see dramatizations about women whose need for a baby makes them criminally unbalanced...

2020

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PEACOCK LAUNCHES By David Bianculli

STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCH: Yes, here comes another one. The deal about Peacock – the financial deal, that is – is that it arrives today in three different tiers. One of them is free, and it offers thousands of hours of old TV and movies, as well as a few new ones. You can download the Peacock app, or get access through the new Peacock website. Then there’s the first pay tier, which offers even more TV and movies – but at a $5 monthly fee. And if you double that&n

2020

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THE CAPTURE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new miniseries is the brightest feather in Peacock’s plumage: A drama about spycraft and modern technology that takes the capabilities of “deep fake” videos and applies them to a hypothetical yet entirely credible story about international espionage and high-stakes politics. Holliday Grainger stars as a British intelligence agency looking into the case of a British soldier (played by Callum Turner), recently exonerated of war crimes and freed from prison,

2020

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INTELLIGENCE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Nick Mohammed, who created this comedy series, co-stars as a British intelligence gatherer whom is about the only spy in his organization who’s enthused by the arrival of an American counterpart as a sort of cultural information exchange program. David Schwimmer from Friends plays the new arrival as a very ugly American – as pompous, acerbic and misguidedly self-satisfied as a better-dressed Basil Fawlty – and plays against the British sensibility alm

2020

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MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Time is not on the side of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, whose time-traveling ship is malfunctioning, and sending them towards imminent doom. The best hope of saving the team, and the world, and universe this time around? Yo-Yo (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) and May (Ming-Na Wen) – which sounds like a 1970s singing duo with a TV variety show. Hey, hey, hey, it’s Yo-Yo and May!

2020

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PEACOCK HAS BEGUN STREAMING By Mike Hughes

For TV viewers, this is now the clash of the titans. On Wednesday, the Peacock streaming service debuts, harnessing the power of NBC, Universal, and beyond...

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