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2021
Jan
25
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Here’s another series I’m not won over by, but not quite willing to give up on. For Season 2, Snowpiercer is introducing some new characters, and even a new villain or two – but its allegorical sci-fi story about the haves vs. the have-nots still feels, at this point, like an overly exaggerated examination of the travel differences between first class and coach…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
25
 
 
If you enjoyed The Durrells in Corfu, a sweet show that aired on PBS’s Masterpiece, a new drama along similar lines is even better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
25
 
 
In the news, this was strictly a spy story. A man and his daughter were sitting on a park bench in England when they collapsed...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
In college basketball, they would refer to today’s pair of games as the Final Four: Two contests, with the victors of each game advancing to the national championship. Only in pro football, the championship game is the Super Bowl. The NFC Championship Game is played first – at 3 p.m. on Fox, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers facing the Green Bay Packers. Then, at 6:30 p.m. on CBS, the AFC Championship Game follows with the Buffalo Bills vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. And in both games, ther
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
The year 2021 has been a roller-coaster already, but for The Circus, it’s been one triumph after another. Being behind the scenes to cover politics may be dull in some years, and maybe we’ll be fortunate enough to feel that again someday – but for right now, the tumult in Washington, D.C. has been captured up close and personal by the correspondents of this as-it-happens political documentary series. This week, the inauguration, the transfer of presidential power
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
Last week’s premiere episode set up this new series with a lot of vintage TV touchstones. The episode began with Linda Shelby’s Eliza Scarlet introduced as a sort of Victorian Honey West, and ended with her being visited and advised by the ghost of her late father, as in the Canadian Mountie hero of Due South. And now we know not only her character, but a few others – so with her private eye agency opened, using her father’s name for acceptability, let
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
This week, yet another highlights package of sorts – but this one divides its time among three of the smaller Gallagher offspring. The episode subtitle says it all: “Debbie, Carl and Liam.” And what the first two characters have gone through, since this Americanized version of Shameless began almost a dozen years ago, is amazing. Watch this “remember-when” hour, and see…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
Even before there was a CNN, the world knew Larry King. Eventually, they would entwine...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
24
 
 
On this day in 1995, opening statements began in the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
23
 
 
This day in 1975 marked the start of the ABC sitcom, Barney Miller...