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2021
Jan
31
 
 
The outstanding cop series Homicide: Life on the Street premiered on this day in 1993, immediately after Super Bowl XXVII...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The Long Song, which premieres Sunday as part of the PBS Masterpiece series throws no filmy gauze over the inhumanity of slavery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The first full week of the Biden administration is chronicled on this week’s new edition of The Circus – and part of that week included the increasing reluctance by Senate Republicans to entertain seriously the impeachment charge about to be brought before them. It also included an increasing concern, by congressional Democrats, that their lives were in danger not just from domestic terrorists, but potentially from some of their own elected colleagues. How is that 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This four-part miniseries actually is several documentaries in one: a mystery series, the story of a con artist, the tale of a promising fuel-efficient three-wheel automobile in the midst of the 1970s oil crisis, and a detailed biographical study of an elusive and mercurial subject. Watch the first hour, and I defy you to walk away from the remaining installments. The first two installments are televised tonight on HBO, with the remainder coming on successive Sun
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The pandemic has forced everyone to be inventive, and to do things differently. Mostly, it’s been terrible to experience and endure – but on television, every once in a while, you witness something that clearly ought to be continued once the pandemic is over. The democratic National Convention roll call vote of states, recorded in all 50 different states so that we could see the nation as a true United States, was one such example. It ought to be required from now on, rather than jus
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
Last week, Your Honor was in recess, but tonight Bryan Cranston’s New Orleans judge returns to the courtroom – and to his increasingly complex, closing-in circle of murderers and blackmailers. But who is he to judge?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 3 premiere of the late-night talk show hosted by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, which went from “Who are those guys?” to “Who are those guys?” in fairly short order. By the end of last month, to cap Season 2, Desus & Mero featured an extended interview with Barack Obama, who began the proceedings by entering the room and saying casually, “Congratulations, gentlemen. Y’all blew up.” Yes, they did.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
It’s not very often that this 1925 silent movie by Sergei Eisenstein is televised. That’s putting it mildly. But as tonight’s centerpiece offering in TCM’s Silent Movie Sundays, Battleship Potemkin is especially resonant, and worth seeking out. It’s set mostly aboard a battleship at the start of the Russian Revolution of 1905, and ends with a street demonstration that turns into a violent, bloody clash with police on the Odessa steps. It’s such a fam
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
As The Long Song begins Sunday, we're clearly in a distant time and place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
 
 
On this day in 1977, ABC turned teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, lead characters of The Hardy Boys mystery book series, into TV stars...