SEASON PREMIERE: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin return, respectively, in the title roles, launching all of Season 3 today on Netflix. Season 1 began when their husbands, Sam Waterston’s Sol and Martin Sheen’s Robert, admitted they were gay – and in love with one another. In the cliffhanger to end last season, Frankie slept with Sol, which might complicate things. Maybe this season, the show will take on an even more liberated Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice vibe (a famously &

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THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICA By David Bianculli

The title is taken from the headline of a 1964 Life magazine profile of its, and this film’s subject: famous atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, whose achievements included pressing for a successfully argued U.S. Supreme Court case banning mandatory Bible readings in public schools. Writer-director Tommy O’Haver focuses this film biography on the last bit of O’Hair’s life, which certainly has its dramatic elements – but, even with flashbacks, may leave behind some

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2017 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

Ken, a longtime, loyal TVWW reader, posted a question yesterday, asking politely, in essence, why I didn’t just keep my basketball-related Best Bets to myself – arguing that anyone who is interested in watching this year’s NCAA college games, or any others, knows where and when to find them, and other readers simply don’t care. And while, in one respect, I appreciate that argument, I’ll beg to persist, giving two reasons of my own. One is that Bianculli’s Best

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TANGLED: THE SERIES By David Bianculli

First came Tangled the animated Disney film, based on the Rapunzel fairy tale and starring Mandy Moore. That was in 2010. Then, earlier this year, came Tangled Before Ever After, a Disney Channel original made-for-TV movie prequel, also starring Moore. And now, beginning today, comes Disney Channel’s Tangled: The Series, an animated series also starring Mandy Moore – who’s also starring, in the flesh, in NBC’s This Is Us, playing Rebecca. I guess it’s true what they

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THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

Whenever this movie is shown in prime time, I mention it. That’s the rule.

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RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Normally, I wouldn’t point out this show, even on its Season 9 premiere, but tonight’s episode is special, inarguably and especially thematically. It makes room for a very special guest, as both muse and judge: Lady Gaga. The contestants are asked to dress up with a couple of different fashion “looks” for themselves: one that’s small-town simple, and the other that’s simply Gaga. And the guest judge herself comes dressed to impress, if not to

2017

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s scheduled guests include MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who has interviewed Bill Maher on his own show in the past (pictured), but is showing up tonight on Real Time with a new book to promote – but who, this week, better be prepared to talk about a lot more than just that book…

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2017 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

We’re not at the Final Four yet – but tonight we have four of this year’s NCAA games, all in prime time – two presented by CBS, the other two by TBS. Starting things off, at 7 p.m. ET on CBS, presents the Midwest’s No. 3 Oregon Ducks vs. No. 7 Michigan Wolverines, the team, that is emerging as one of the tournament’s most beloved teams, and stories, this year. Other games tonight, in order of telecast: At 7:30 p.m. ET on TBS, the West’s No. 1 Gonzaga Bul

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GOJIRA By David Bianculli

In the United States, the giant lizard monster Godzilla was introduced to us via 1956’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, one of many 1950s movie presenting giant, atom-bomb-mutated creatures as allegories for fears of nuclear disaster. Raymond Burr starred in that movie, old-time monster movie fans may recall, playing an American reporter named, believe it or not, Steve Martin. But Burr’s scenes were all shot two years after the release of the original Japanese lizard-monster film, G

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BASKETS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: One thing you wouldn’t expect out of Baskets – one of the very few things – is timeliness. Yet for tonight’s season finale, for reasons yet undisclosed, Chip (Zack Galifianakis) joins… the Russians.

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