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2021
Jan
23
 
 
This weekend’s marathon on Decades is a show I watched as a teen, haven’t seen since, and wonder now why I watched it in the first place. So I looked it up. Here Come the Brides premiered on ABC  in 1968, as a sort of TV ripoff of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and based on an actual historical incident from the post-Civil War era, when an enterprising mine owner in Seattle sent for scores of women to move West and relocate as possible marriage prospec
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
This new, quickly scheduled CNN special captures what journalists call the fast first draft of history – by having host Anderson Cooper talking about events of this week with historian Dorsi Kearns Goodwin and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. She’s been in several of his films, and they all talk about the past four years as well as the past four days. “I feel like I’m exhaled,” Burns says. But there have been a lot of holding-your-breath moments in 2021 already, and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
In the interview biz, Larry King could getcha because he wasn't about gotcha...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part series comes from Israel, and is another example of streaming services, such as this one and Netflix, increasingly making room for modern TV series from other countries. Israel, remember, gave us the series that Showtime turned into Homeland, so the country can make some fine television. This series is about Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a filmmaker whose best creative films are decades behind her. She’s married to an aging but still in-demand actor, Davi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
Just to note the way Disney+ is rolling out this new Marvel Universe series, which I’m very intrigued by. The first two episodes were unveiled last Friday, but the rest of WandaVision is being presented with new episodes shown once a week, just as with a broadcast TV series. So today is Episode 3 of WandaVision – which, for now, is taking two superhero characters from the Avengers movies, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda the modern witch and Paul Bettany as Visi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
When classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz went to Moscow for a demanding, unprecedented, Cold War-thawing concert in 1986, it was memorably memorialized on 60 Minutes. Now here’s an expanded Great Performances edition about that seminal classical music event – how it came about, how and why Horowitz chose the particular musical selections to perform, and the concert itself. Still inspiring, after all these decades. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
Of course you have to watch this show this week. Look at the week.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
American audiences often get adapted versions of top-quality Israeli TV dramas, like Homeland or In Treatment...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
It's no secret in Hulu's new import drama The Sister that Nathan Redman (Russell Tovey) has a secret...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
22
 
 
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which debuted on this day in 1968, took the blackout formula from vaudeville and adapted it to television...