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2020
Oct
31
 
 
On this day in 2010, AMC used the occasion of Halloween night to unveil The Walking Dead, its new drama series about a world suddenly overrun by zombies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
31
 
 
Dan Curtis’ gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows, began airing on ABC in 1966, with a live TV approach whose low production values and performance levels often were as frightening as the vampires and werewolves. But a supernatural soap? Curtis was on to something, and once the show started playing with different time lines and doppelgangers, you could really sink your teeth into it. So this weekend’s Decades marathon picks up the action, and the daily soap series, at M
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
31
 
 
Still brilliant. In 1964, Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern took on the Cold War and its attendant hawkishness, insanity, and paranoia – and won. This movie wasn't a bomb.  It was the bomb.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
31
 
 
John Mulaney returns again as guest host, for the second time this year. But who’s complaining? The former head writer for SNL must make it very easy on the rest of the cast and writers when he shows up to play: Who knows it better? And Mulaney is wildly funny, and unpredictably, ingeniously warped. He’s guest hosting here for the fourth time – and tonight, it’s Halloween, a full moon, and the last weekend before the 2020 presidential election. All in all, clear
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
30
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Frequent collaborators and co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in this new comedy series, playing paranormal investigators who start out as a British sort of Ghostbusters squad – but eventually encounter something serious, sinister, and not necessarily supernatural.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
30
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: When Disney+ premiered almost a year ago, one of the absolutely primary draws was this new Star Wars spinoff series – and both Disney+ and The Mandalorian have been received with wild enthusiasm ever since. And for Season 2, The Mandalorian brings out some big guns, and I’m not just talking about rebel weaponry. New series stars added for this new cycle include Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson (pictured), and Battlestar: Galactica&n
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
30
 
 
Tonight’s guests include The Circus correspondent John Heilemann and former U.S. Senator (and Saturday Night Live writer-performer) Al Franken.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
30
 
 
What a guest list for tonight’s new show! It includes Matthew McConaughey, singer Sam Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Episodes star Stephen Mangan – oh, yeah, and Bruce Springsteen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
30
 
 
On this day in 1958, NBC's fledgling daytime game show, Concentration, was added to the network's prime-time lineup as a temporary replacement for Twenty-One...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
29
 
 
On this day in 1956, NBC introduced the evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report...