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2021
Feb
7
 
 
Was it only this week that the Democrats in the House of Representatives, joined by fewer than a dozen Republicans, voted to strip incoming Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee seats? And is it only a few days from now when Donald Trump will face an impeachment trial in the Senate for a second time? Yes and yes. All of which makes this as-it-happens Showtime political documentary series a must-record. I’d say must-see, but we’ll all be watching the Super Bowl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
7
 
 
Another must-record. See above. This is Part 3 of this nonfiction miniseries, and tonight’s installment plays like a full-length courtroom drama. And a very dramatic one, because the defendant does double duty as defense attorney…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
7
 
 
Ibid.  And this is the penultimate episode of this Bryan Cranston miniseries. So don’t forget to set your DVRs for this one, too…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
7
 
 
On this day in 2000, Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reprised their roles from the '70s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
6
 
 
The Winds of War — which debuted on this day in 1983 — ranks in the Nielsen ratings as the third-highest miniseries in TV history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
6
 
 
Comedian Jon Stewart has written and directed two movies to date – one while on hiatus from The Daily Show, the other last year, pre-pandemic, years after leaving that Comedy central hosting job. The first film was 2014’s Rosewater. The second, making its premium cable premiere tonight on HBO, is 2020’s Irresistible, which stars old Daily Show cohort Steve Carell as a political operative who descends upon a small town in Wisconsin to stee
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
6
 
 
Mel Brooks directed The Producers movie in 1968, stunning audiences with his audacious musical spoof “Springtime for Hitler.” In 1974, he stunned audiences again, lampooning Westerns by casting African-American actor Cleavon Little as “Black Bart” in Blazing Saddles. TCM presents both films as a deliriously entertaining double feature – and what’s amazing about Mel’s writing and directing here is that both movies are as inventive, and
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
6
 
 
Another new episode, and a very significant one. Dan Levy of Schitt’s Creek is the guest host – something his dad, Schitt’s co-star Eugene Levy, never got to do, though he and John Candy did pop up for a cameo in one SNL installment back in 1985. When SNL was in its early glory days in the late 1970s, of course, so were Eugene Levy and Candy — and another Schitt's co-star, Catherine O'Hara — as founding members of a competing
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
5
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This new Amazon movie is a slight variant on a very familiar sci-fi theme, with a protagonist (Owen Wilson, in this case) beginning to question whether his very reality is a construct. He begins to look anew at the matrix, if not The Matrix, and evaluate his life and choices from there. What makes Bliss worthwhile is that his guide through this strange new, yet old and familiar, world is played by Salma Hayek, who brings sparkle and emotion to every role. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
5
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The first Charles Schulz TV show based on his beloved Peanuts comic strip was in 1965. It’s still the best holiday television special ever made, and so full of wit and spirit, and an actual message, that it works just as well today. This new series, bringing Snoopy front and center and presenting three brief episodes in each installment, is very light on the moralism, but it does very well recreating the spirit of the rest of the original. Offscreen teachers and