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2020
Dec
30
 
 
Of all the entities that enjoyed the year 2020, a modest list, none stands above Amazon, our national retailing Godzilla...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
The three lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder continue to fascinate us...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
If you measure the great American writers to some degree by the durability of their work, you can't leave out Laura Ingalls Wilder...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
One of my favorite movies of all time is televised by TCM tonight, unedited and uninterrupted. I have one word of advice for you: Plastics.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
29
 
 
This day in 1989 marked Jane Pauley's final day with NBC's Today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
28
 
 
On this day in 1997, CBS presented a telemovie version of Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway play, The Sunshine Boys...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
28
 
 
The month-long TCM salute to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy concludes tonight, including shorts during the day, and a prime-time showing of two of the pair’s films from 1940 – decades after they started making movies together in the silent era. A Chump at Oxford (pictured) begins the nightly salute at 8 p.m. ET, and another 1940 film, Saps at Sea, follows at 9:15 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
27
 
 
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Black Mirror, the modern Twilight Zone/Outer Limits anthology series created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, are behind this new special, which is a comedy deconstruction disguised as a documentary, replete with lots of news footage from the year 2020 that seem more farcical than anything writers could dream up. There are more than a dozen writers contributing to this Death to 2020 special, and Brooker, Jones and company manage to make it amu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
27
 
 
On holiday weekends, the broadcast networks pretty much go on their own holidays – but cable and streaming keep going. Which is good news, and why there’s a fresh episode of Shameless to watch on Showtime tonight. Well, a sort of fresh episode: It’s a new compilation of old scenes built around selected characters, as with tonight’s Shameless Hall of Fame: Ian & Mickey.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
27
 
 
…And also on Showtime, tonight on Your Honor, it is a fresh episode… Episode 4, tracking the fate of the young man asked to take the fall, and the prison time, for the judge’s son.