Trick or treat? Tonight’s episode is titled “October 31,” but arrives one week before Halloween – and involves a possession and a potential exorcism, with spooky terrors behind closed doors. Based on this series so far, I’d say… Treat!

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2019 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

Last night’s Game 1 featured several lead changes, some tense duels between pitchers and batters, some outstanding defensive plays, and a few amazing swings of the bat. All in all, a great beginning to what could be a terrific, and anything but anticlimactic, World Series. The Washington Nationals prevailed over the Houston Astros in Game 1, with a final score of 5-4. Tonight, played again in Houston, it’s Game 2.

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DUCK SOUP By David Bianculli

I’m used to going to Turner Classic Movies to look for Best Bets – but tonight, in prime time, TCM is showing three comedy films that represent the best from some of cinema history’s very best comics. This tremendous triple feature begins at 8 p.m. ET with what I consider the Marx Brothers’ very best movie, 1933’s Duck Soup. It’s about the absurdity of war – well, it’s about the absurdity of everything, basically – but in

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THE BANK DICK By David Bianculli

The second of three TCM comedy classics shown tonight, this is W.C. Fields’ 1940 masterpiece, The Bank Dick. It’s about a town drunk who accidentally prevents a pair of bank robberies, and is rewarded with the job of bank guard. The humor begins with the inebriated central character’s name: Egbert Sousé.

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SONS OF THE DESERT By David Bianculli

After the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields, what else do you need for a perfect evening of comedy? How about Laurel and Hardy? And here they are: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in a movie made the same year as Duck Soup in 1933. Sons of the Desert has our less than dynamic duo trying to sneak away from their wives to attend a lodge convention. How funny is that? In their hands, very, very funny indeed…

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THE CRY By David Bianculli

This miniseries was shown already on Sundance’s streaming service, Sundance Now – and I reviewed it very positively then, because of both its clever mystery plot, and its spellbinding central performance by Jenna Coleman, who charmed me as Clara in Doctor Who, then wowed me as a young Queen Victoria in Victoria. Now the miniseries gets an encore showing on Sundance Channel itself, which should bring The Cry, deservedly, to a larger audience. Coleman

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LOOKING AT 'LIFE FROM ABOVE' PROVIDES A SPECTACULAR VIEW By David Hinckley

Satellite photos of Earth haven't been a novelty for a while, but a new PBS series suggests that fact shouldn't diminish their wonder...

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2019 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

The Washington Nationals, having fought all the way from the National League Wild-Card Game to make it to this year’s World Series, is the underdog team, and the Houston Astros, who just outplayed the New York Yankees (again) to advance (again), have home-field advantage for tonight’s opening game. The Astros are playing in the big game for the second time in three years, while this is the Nationals’ first shot at the World Series. It may sound like a mismatch – but the w

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STAN & OLLIE By David Bianculli

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy became a silent-movie comedy team in 1927, just as the cinema was about to make a transition to sound films. They survived that transition, where many silent stars did not, by having vocal comic timing, and distinctively funny voices, as well as their established mastery of physical pratfalls and facial reactions. In 1932, they made one of the funniest short films ever made, The Music Box. And 21 years later, in the twilight of their careers, they embarked

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FRONTLINE: "ZERO TOLERANCE" By David Bianculli

This is the first of three PBS Frontline documentaries this season devoted to the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. This first hour is an “origin story” of sorts, tracing the policy to a troika of Trump associates: Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, and Steve Bannon.Check local listings.

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