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2020
Jun
30
 
 
Guiding Light made its television debut on this day in 1952...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
30
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This two-night nonfiction miniseries concludes tonight, profiling six women of color who rose from the grassroots to seek election in recent years. Subjects range from Stacey Abrams and Rashida Tlaib to Lucy McBath. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
30
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Filmmaker David France takes his camera into some unnervingly dangerous spots and conditions in this new documentary, which dares to document an ongoing pogrom in the repressive Russian republic. Chechnya’s ruler, Ramzan Kadyrov, has launched an anti-LGBTQ offensive since 2016, overseeing a government-backed campaign to identify, detain, torture and kill those “others.” The Kremlin hasn’t acted to protect them, but a sort of underground railroad of s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
30
 
 
Little more than a year ago, American mountain climber Don Cash died on Mt. Everest just hours after he had reached the summit...What made Cash's death unique was that he was one of 200 people who climbed to the top of the world that day, and he was caught in a traffic jam on his way down...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
30
 
 
Its self-explanatory title notwithstanding, Nat Geo's new Lost On Everest ends up giving us a somewhat different story than its stars may have originally hoped...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
30
 
 
Carl Reiner packed a lot of lives into 98 years. He was the perfect straight man for Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks, the ideal mentor for Steve Martin...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
29
 
 
Stop-animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who died in 2013, was born 100 years ago today, and TCM is noting the occasion by presenting five of his classic movies. The action, and the stop-action, begins at 8 p.m. ET, with 1958’s The 7thVoyage of Sinbad, which includes his human hero facing off against skeletons, Cyclops, snake women and others. At 10 p.m. ET, it’s 1956’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, which has extraterrestrial armed ships destroying state capi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
29
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This two-night nonfiction miniseries, concluding tomorrow night, profiles six women of color who rose from the grassroots to seek election in recent years. Subjects range from Stacey Abrams and Rashida Tlaib to Lucy McBath. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
29
 
 
You'd think television might be running out of variations on the Troubled Cop. You'd be wrong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
29
 
 
On this day in 1957, a comic named Jack Paar took over the NBC late-night program formerly known as Tonight (and presently known as The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon). Tonight launched in 1954 as a live, late-night variety/talk show with Steve Allen as host. When Allen landed his own weekly prime-time series in 1956, he cut back his Tonight hosting duties to three nights a week (with Ernie Kovacs stepping in as the show's host each Monday and Tuesday). In 1957, when Allen left the show al