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2020
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Scary as it sounds to say out loud, television has been one of our national unifying and stabilizing forces during this pandemic thing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
29
 
 
Tonight’s scheduled guests for this new at-home edition include Jay Leno, who already has popped in to visit Maher’s backyard (from a safe, neighborly distance) since the pandemic began. Also: Soledad O’Brien and Tom Colicchio.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
29
 
 
In this new at-home edition, Norton’s guests include Katy Perry, Steve Carell, Dakoita Johnson and John Legend.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
29
 
 
This day in 1974 marked the final telecast of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on CBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
28
 
 
ABC's thirtysomething ended its four-season run today in 1991...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
28
 
 
SEASON FINALE: “The Gang Discovers Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein” is the title of today’s new season finale of The Good Fight. And while that sounds audacious, it’s approached as a smart piece of fictional drama that often alludes to real-life people, events and issues. In this hour, the legal firm is hired as an objective outsider to investigate whether or not Epstein’s death was a suicide – and the clues they follow, regardless of any conclusion, empl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCH: It’s neither HBO Go nor HBO Now – though, if you have either of those, they should, theoretically, shift or allow free access to HBO Max, the new streaming service rolled out today. Its biggest draw is its large backlog of series and movies, both from HBO and elsewhere. (From this point on, for a while, HBO Max is the only streaming site on which you can see all of Friends.) There also are HBO Max originals being unveiled today, from children&rsquo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: Today brings Episode 9 of Mrs. America, which is the final installment in this story of the initial attempts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. As with the opening episode, Cate Blanchett takes center stage as anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly – but the episode it titled “Reagan,” evoking the era if not the man himself.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: Lee lost. Grant won. That was in yesterday’s Part 2. Tonight, it’s the post-war story, and what happens to Ulysses S. Grant as he prepares his memoirs… which Mark Twain wants to publish. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This final season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. propels the team back to Earth, but shifts time as well as space: It’s the Earth of the 1930s, when Agent Coulson, Daisy and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. stalwarts must defeat an extraterrestrial enemy, avoid a disastrous time paradox – and, given the time period, perhaps encounter a teenage, pre-bulked Steve Rogers, before he enlists to fight the Nazis and is transformed into the original Captain America