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2021
Jan
5
 
 
We hear a lot about "the American dream" – especially when a pandemic might sideswipe it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
5
 
 
On this day in 1959, KTLA-TV in Los Angeles launched the first of local Bozo the Clown show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
4
 
 
On this day in 1957, NBC attempted to bring Columbia Pictures' hit feature film franchise, Blondie, to the small screen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
4
 
 
U.S. PREMIERE: This 2019 documentary from BBC Four is the British equivalent of Argo – a true story, and a fascinating one, about a previously secret arrangement between the film industry and the government. In Argo, it was the way in which Hollywood producers worked with and for the CIA to secure the safe passage of Americans in hiding in Iran during the hostage crisis of the 1970s. In this new documentary, it’s the way in which Winston Churchill worked eagerly,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
4
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This 2020 eight-episode Spanish miniseries, produced by HBO Spain, is a horror drama typing all sorts of supernatural weirdness to the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus Christ. The whereabouts and dark power of those coins reveals itself early and often in 30 Coins, which feels a bit like a less restrained, less focused Lovecraft Country. You’ll be able to decide early whether you want to go along on this subtitled but hardly su
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
4
 
 
This new documentary entry for PBS and Independent Lens is about the NFL’s historical, and still ongoing, treatment of unequal and unfair pay, and the low (and sometimes nonexistent) salaries paid to the organization’s pro football cheerleaders. Eventually, some of those cheerleaders begin to protest, and organize, to fight for fairer treatment and wages. Gimme an S! Gimme a T! Gimme an R! Gimme an I-K-E! Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
3
 
 
A few new shows have started to creep onto TV schedules, which is noteworthy even when the shows sometimes are less so...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
3
 
 
For Jimmy Carter – the sweet-faced, soft-voiced peanut farmer – many images come to mind. Few of them involve long-haired rockers with wailing guitars – until now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
3
 
 
Tonight’s new episode turns the spotlight on one of my favorite occasionally recurring character: Comic Book Guy. Consider tonight’s installment of The Simpsons a limited special edition…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
3
 
 
The last time Glenda Jackson starred in a miniseries on this umbrella series that imports dramas from the U.K., the series was called Masterpiece Theatre, and Jackson starred as Elizabeth R in 1971 – the very year that Masterpiece Theatre launched on PBS. Now, 50 years later, the series is called simply Masterpiece, and Jackson is playing a woman looking for her missing best friend – while, at the same time, slipping deeper into dementia. Check