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2020
Sep
10
 
 
In this 1970 movie directed so inventively by Robert Altman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould play renegade Army surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John, the roles played in the subsequent TV series by Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers, respectively. The Korean War setting is the same in both the TV show and the movie, but Altman’s take is much darker, and there are other differences as well. The only film actor to reprise his or her role for the CBS spinoff is Gary Burghoff, who played clair
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
10
 
 
Late-night television's overwhelming whiteness has been a topic of pointed conversation for decades, which lends considerable historical resonance to a new Peacock documentary called The Sit-In...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
10
 
 
Ask any pop culture fan under 50 about The Avengers, and you'll get a rhapsody on the whole rambunctious team from the Marvel universe and movies. Ask someone over 60, particularly if that someone is male, and you'll get a loving rhapsody about Diana Rigg in a catsuit...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
10
 
 
On this day in 1955, one of television's best-known and longest-running dramas, Gunsmoke, made its debut on CBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
 
 
On this day in 1975, ABC introduced the situation comedy Welcome Back, Kotter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
 
 
You can learn a lot by watching tonight’s episode of Nova – or at least I did. I thought CRISPR was the way I liked my BACN – but it turns out CRISPR is the name of a tool for editing the human genome. CRISPR could help isolate and eliminate genetic deficiencies in human DNA. It also, however, could allow parents to choose their children’s physical features and other attributes, which basically is the plot of at least 20 percent of all dystopian sci-fi stories e
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
 
 
The question always, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson told TV Worth Watching in an interview over lunch several years ago, is not whether one can do something but rather whether one should...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
9
 
 
Being identified as "woke" – that is, finally understanding the multiple core inequities of American society – can get you admired or ridiculed these days, depending on who has done the identifying...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
8
 
 
Several years ago — it seems like ages ago now — the veteran CBS newsman Scott Pelley presented a sobering segment for 60 Minutes in which Pelley documented the hollowing-out of the middle class in Orlando, Fla. in the wake of the last economic downturn...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Sep
8
 
 
It's an all-day salute to Star Trek, on the 54th anniversary of its original series launch on NBC. But it’s not just a salute to the original Star Trek. Today, CBS All Access is mounting quite an ambitious enterprise (or, if you prefer, Enterprise) by saluting all nine shows and spinoffs relating to Gene Roddenberry’s original Trek vision. Running all day and night, except for a significant midday break, CBS All Access presents selected ep