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2021
Jan
13
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In this new ABC sitcom, Kyra Sedgwick plays an empty nest mom who decides to fly across the country to hover over her grown kids and help raise their respective families. Clearly a pre-pandemic concept, this sitcom also is so old-fashioned that it’s shot multi-camera in front of a studio audience, the I Love Lucy / Mom way. More than that, it's ABC’s only new midseason entry that’s scripted, rather than a reality, competition, game or quiz show. So th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
13
 
 
If Alison Janney's Mom leaves you hungry for more incredibly annoying and yet somehow ultimately endearing mothers, then Call Your Mother should satisfy your appetite...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
13
 
 
It's hard to describe the apprehension of a serial killer as a "happy" ending, particularly when you have just been escorted through a litany of his serial crimes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
12
 
 
If you avoided this series last season, and even avoided last week’s Season 2 premiere, it may be because the premise sounded just too weird or cute: a young woman awakens from a brain scan to discover she can intermittently see and hear the inner emotions of people around her, as conveyed in song and dance. Or you may have just thought there’s nothing worth watching on the commercial broadcast networks any more. Either way, in this case, you’re wrong – and I urge you to
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
12
 
 
There’s a significant flashback reveal in tonight’s episode – one that explains how Randall, one member of this show’s extended family, came to be in the same maternity ward as the others. For fans, it’s a long-awaited, key part of the backstory.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of this Fox series finds a way to give more freedom, and thus more menace, to the serial murderer played by Michael Sheen. Prodigal Son frequently not only stretches credibility, but snaps it – yet Sheen is such a riveting actor, he’s reason enough to keep watching. He’s killer.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
12
 
 
Batman premiered on this day in 1966, and ended the season a few months later with both the Wednesday and Thursday installments in the overall Top 10...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
11
 
 
On this day in 1999, comedian Jon Stewart took the reins of Comedy Central's satirical newscast, The Daily Show, replacing original host Craig Kilborn...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
11
 
 
All indications, on the very morning this game is to take place, is that it indeed will be played as scheduled – which is somewhat surprising in itself. It’s the Alabama Crimson Tide (12-0) vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes (7-0). And while Alabama has the Roll Tide tsunami going for it, Ohio just celebrated last night, after the Cleveland Browns won its first playoff game in decades. So who knows? So far in 2021 (I know it’s early in the year, but still), anyone counting on stabilit
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
11
 
 
This proudly weird eight-part Spanish miniseries continues tonight with Episode 3 – and if you weren’t thrown by last week’s two-hour premiere outing, in which a humanoid baby emerged from a cow and morphed into a deadly giant spider… well, tonight things get weird.