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2020

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Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed this new take on the 1969 trial of the Chicago 7 – originally, the Chicago 8. They were various revolutionary leaders put on trial by the Nixon administration, which claimed conspiracy as the cause of the protests and violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. There have been other dramatizations of this trial, which took six months in 1969, and was derailed from several angles: the outrageously eccentric and conservative Judge Julius Hoffman, the outrageously playful and antic Abbie Hoffman, and the outraged Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, whose angry remarks to the judge resulted in the judge ordering Seale to be not only silenced in court – but chained to his chair and gagged. Sorkin didn’t have to make any of this up – it’s all in the transcripts – but he does add flashbacks putting the testimony into perspective, and widening the drama and action outside the courtroom. And by casting Frank Langella as Judge Hoffman, Sorkin makes it more of a battle. His take is better than the previous dramatized versions of this trial, HBO’s Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 in 1987 and the 2010 film The Chicago 8. For my full review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website.
 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: So you’re depressed enough by current events that you’re not sure you want to watch a new documentary about international cyber warfare, and how the Russians are targeting the imminent U.S. presidential election. I understand. I feel your pain. But hey – this new documentary, directed by John Maggio and based on the book by New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger, doesn’t spend all its time depressing you about cyber-attacks on elections. It saves some time to also depress you about potential cyber-attacks on our water and electrical systems – and, just to hammer the fun home, our nuclear systems and arsenals. Sleep well…
 
  
 
 

Fox Sports 1, 9:00 p.m. ET

In the National League Championship Series, after the Atlanta Braves won the first two games in this best-of-seven contest, the Los Angeles Dodgers asserted themselves Wednesday with a 15-3 rout, sending the Braves a message. Well, message received – and responded to. Yesterday, the Braves bounced back with a rout of their own, winning Game 4 by a 10-2 score, and heading into tonight’s Game 5, televised at 9 p.m. ET on FS1, with a 3-1 series lead. Unless the Dodgers answer again, this series is over, and the Braves are off to the 2020 World Series.
 
  
 
 

MSNBC, 10:00 p.m. ET

In this documentary, premiering on TV tonight, Pete Souza, the chief official photographer for the White House during the Barack Obama years, provides his perspective on those years – through his camera, and through his candid and very personal memories.
 
  
 
 

BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET

Among tonight’s guests: Ewan McGregor and a pre-recorded, socially distanced Miley Cyrus.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.