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2012

Apr

"PETER O'TOOLE: LIVE FROM THE TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL" By Diane Werts

Plan now to watch Wednesday night's "Peter O'Toole: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival" (8 and 11:30 p.m. ET), a 2011 conversation between the accomplished actor and Robert Osborne. It's accompanied on TCM by films including The Lion in Winter (9 p.m. ET) and Lawrence of Arabia (12:30 a.m. ET). - DW

2012

Apr

MIKE WALLACE: GREATEST HITS By Diane Werts

The late Mike Wallace grills 'em in this CBS News archive reel showcasing some of his tough interviews with Richard Nixon, Ayatollah Khomeini and other world figures. - DW

2012

Apr

"GIRLS" ARRIVES ON HBO By Diane Werts

We've seen three episodes of HBO's April 15 arrival "Girls," and it's good. Raw, painfully funny, awkwardly real -- yup, good. Lena Dunham creates and stars in this half-hour slice of life about four twentysomething NYC girlfriends who are definitely NOT Sex and the City material. -DW

2012

Mar

YEEHAWW! By Diane Werts

In honor of the late banjo king Earl Scruggs, here he is with bluegrass duo-mate Lester Flatt on The Beverly Hillbillies, for which they legendarily provided the theme song. Dancing Granny! Dancing dogs! And Buddy Ebsen struttin' the stuff that made him the original Wizard of Oz Tin Man. - DW

2012

Mar

MAGIC CITY By Diane Werts

Sure looks seductive, doesn't it? "Magic City," Starz' sleek big-money look back at circa-'60 Miami Beach, gets a sneak peek this Friday. That's at 11 p.m. ET, after the season finale of "Spartacus: Vengeance," into whose 10 p.m. time slot "Magic City" slides the following week. - DW

2012

Mar

VEEP By Diane Werts

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the vice president of the United States? Stranger things have happened. (Maybe.) Here's a peek at her new comedy "Veep", premiering April 22 on HBO. - DW

2012

Mar

MARY'S BACK! By Diane Werts

Mary's back! "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" gets a major cable showcase when it hits Hallmark Channel April 1 with a 10-hour welcome marathon. Here's a clip from the classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode: Mary, who's been chiding her WJM newsroom co-workers for joking about the death of the TV clown, finds herself broken up in an entirely different way at his funeral. - DW

2012

Mar

MY LIVING DOLL HITS DVD By Diane Werts

Some long-gone shows are even better than legend has it. Here's one -- "My Living Doll", the 1964 sitcom starring Julie "Catwoman" Newmar as a robot, with Bob Cummings as her would-be minder. Newmar's deftly innocent mis-takes on human behavior prove enduringly delightful as My Living Doll hits DVD this Tuesday. - DW

2012

Mar

THE STORY OF THE COSTUME DRAMA By Diane Werts

Brideshead Revisited, Upstairs Downstairs, Pride and Prejudice, The Jewel in the Crown, The Forsyte Saga, Moll Flanders, Cranford and I, Claudius -- if just the titles make you sigh, then public TV has the program for you. It's The Story of the Costume Drama, a too-short hour survey of great moments in British period miniseries over the past 50 years. (Check local listings for March airings.) - DW

2012

Mar

ABC'S NEW SERIES MISSING By Diane Werts

Do we buy Ashley Judd as an ex-CIA agent kicking ass to get her kidnapped son back? Click above to watch the first act of ABC's new series "Missing" before its Wednesday 10 p.m. ET premiere. One thing's for sure: It doesn't start slow. - DW