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2020
Sep
27
 
 
Steve Allen's first NBC show, broadcast on September 27, 1954, launched Tonight! into orbit, and it hasn't returned since...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
Early in the long-awaited new season of Fargo, which is set in Kansas City in 1950, a prominent Italian businessman is accidentally shot in the neck by a couple of dopey young boys fooling around with toy guns in the park...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
It's a problem Jeff Daniels rarely faces – being too short for a role...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
The world seemed to conspire against there ever being another Fargo miniseries....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 32 of The Simpsons, which began when Ronald Reagan still was in the White House. And more than three decades later, The Simpsons still delivers, even though it gets less attention than it did at its pop-culture zenith. Tonight’s season premiere is a takeoff on the CBS series Undercover Boss – with Mr. Burns going undercover at his own nuclear power plant, and adopting a friendlier, less imperious persona embraced by everyo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
On-air promos for this week’s episode show how inflamed things are getting, even deep inside the Beltway corridors. Correspondents for The Circus take to the Hill – and take its temperature.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s been three years since a new season of Fargo, and  Noah Hawley’s fourth try at embodying the Coen Brothers Fargo movie spirit by presenting his own stand-alone stories is just as good as the first three. In other words, it’s must-see television. And first and foremost, watch for Chris Rock, whose starring performance here is easily the best, and most surprising, dramatic role of his career. For my full review on NPR’s&nb
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
Last week’s episode, a full-hour flashback set in Korea, was a wild departure – shocking, sexy, and supremely supernatural. Tonight’s episode returns to the U.S., but following the ramifications of last week’s encounters with a femme fatale praying mantis (or is it, in this case, preying mantis?). Yet it also dives, once again, into the past. This time, lots of pasts, real and imagined.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This two-part drama, concluding tomorrow night, takes a behind-closed-doors approach to the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and beyond. Jeff Daniels stars as Comey, with other interesting casting choices peppered among the sizable cast list. Holly Hunter plays Sally Yates, William Sadler is Michael Flynn, Richard Thomas is Chuck Rosenberg, Peter Coyote is Robert Mueller, and, showing up deep into night one, Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump. For more information on th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
27
 
 
Okay, John Oliver, the floor is all yours. Run with it…