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2021
Feb
5
 
 
The weekly episodes of WandaVision that drop each Friday on Disney+ have become, very quickly, one of the TV treats I most look forward to as the weekend approaches. After seeing only the first three episodes, I was excited by this Marvel TV show’s possibilities, and mused that it might be the first television show I can remember that began as a sitcom but had the potential to morph into an all-out drama. Last week, with Episode 4, it flirted with exactly that possibility. The en
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
5
 
 
Among tonight’s guests, straight from the Real Time studio, is a TV personality who has hosted his own show, during this pandemic, both from his TV studio and from home: ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Maher has visited Kimmel’s show and studio during this pandemic (pictured). Tonight, Kimmel returns the favor.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
5
 
 
Among tonight’s guests is Billie Piper, who was a young pop star in Britain before becoming a companion on Doctor Who 16 years ago, then maturing into an actress taking on very bold roles – and taking them on very well, whether as a sex worker in Secret Diary of a Call Girl or a reanimated corpse in the original Penny Dreadful. Her most recent TV series, which was imported to the U.S. last November by HBO Max, is I Hate Suzie (pictured), i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
5
 
 
On this day in 1967, CBS introduced The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
4
 
 
On this day in 1996, NBC debut the first part of the two-part miniseries, Gulliver's Travels...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
4
 
 
I continue to support this new NBC comedy series because it keeps making me laugh – and for now, also because you don’t have to subscribe to Peacock to watch it. Ted Danson is a solid laugh-maker as the newbie L.A. mayor in this new sitcom from the 30 Rock folks, and Holly Hunter, as the mayor’s assistant and former nemesis, is hilarious. She’s annoying and challenging him from below, not above, but she’s fast becoming a reliably caustic Jack Donaghy to Da
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
4
 
 
Kate Jameson is that rarest of all TV cops. She comes to the job with no baggage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
3
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Based on the book by Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane is a sort of This Is Us for Netflix, using flashbacks as well as modern-day scenes to tell its story. In this case, it’s the story of two teen girls – one more popular and self-assured than the other – who bond as young teens, and remain friends as adults. The adults are why this series is worth mentioning: The more mature versions of its central characters are played by Katherine Heigl of&nb
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
3
 
 
If you didn’t sample this new sci-fi Syfy series last week, give it a try. Alan Tudyk stars as an alien from outer space who masquerades as a small-town doctor. It’s as strange as it sounds – but more entertaining.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
3
 
 
"Strange how people who have suffered together have stronger connections than those who are most content," Bob Dylan once sang, and among the many people to whom that could apply are Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey...