NEW YORK (AP) — Live from New York, it's Caitlin Clark! The Iowa star made a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" during the show's " Weekend Update " segment. She said she first heard …
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By Kevin McDonough
The CBS schedule continues to take form, with new episodes arriving and series returning to their pre-strike routine. In the case of the "FBI" trilogy, it continues the network's hyperbolic violence and promotion of a sense of …
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By Kevin McDonough
Exploring a dark chapter in American history too broad and resonant to cover in one hour, "American Experience" (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings) presents "Nazi Town, USA."
The documentary doesn't dwell on one …
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By Kevin McDonough
Sporting a production team including Maya Rudolph ("SNL") and Natasha Lyonne ("Poker Face"), the new adult cartoon comedy "The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy" streams on Prime Video.
Set in a hospital far off in time and …
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By Kevin McDonough
Every generation gets the "Columbo" it deserves. And now it looks like we have two. Peacock's "Poker Face" stars Natasha Lyonne as a detective on the run, a woman evading her pursuers and finding killers on an episodic basis …
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By Kevin McDonough
Reduced circumstances inspire the Dashwood sisters to approach love from different directions in the 2024 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" (8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark, TV-G). For those keeping score, the …
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By Kevin McDonough
Can this (fake marriage) be saved? Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star in the title roles of John and Jane Smith in the Prime series "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," two young(ish) people with the right background to sign up for a secret …
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By Kevin McDonough
The ABC News production "Truth and Lies" (8 p.m.) revisits the "Fatal Dive to the Titanic." The story of Stockton Rush and the June 2023 implosion of his Titan submersible craft touches on the downsides of daring …
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By Kevin McDonough
Smart, ambitious, beautiful, well cast and superbly acted, "The New Look" streams its first three of 10 episodes today on Apple TV+. Subsequent installments arrive every Wednesday through April 3.
The title is derived from …
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By Kevin McDonough
Come on down! Tonight's episode of "Let's Make a Deal Primetime" (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) celebrates the 60th anniversary of the iconic game show. That's a diamond jubilee for those keeping score. Host Wayne Brady will croon a …
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By Kevin McDonough
There are two ways to look at last summer's "Barbie" phenomenon. Was way too much made of the film and its use of a docile, objectified plaything to make points about female empowerment? Or not enough? Its box-office success …
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By Kevin McDonough
"The Past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." So wrote L.P. Hartley, in his 1953 novel "The Go-Between." And the phrase has been cited ever since.
Unfortunately, it no longer applies to great swaths of …
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By Kevin McDonough
Having explored the world of insulated corporate oligarchs on "Succession," HBO takes the next logical step with "The Regime" (9 p.m. Sunday, TV-MA). Set in a fictional Central European state that has descended into a thinly …
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By Kevin McDonough
Where do shows and movies go after they die? Sometimes they end up on Netflix and enjoy a success their creators (and initial broadcasters) never imagined.
The 2018 Lifetime thriller "You" earned scant attention on cable. …
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By Kevin McDonough
Super Bowl madness turns the world upside down. Commercials are supposed to be endured (or avoided) during programs. Here's a program about nothing but commercials.
Boomer Esiason and Daniela Ruah host "Super Bowl Greatest …
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By Kevin McDonough
An adventure procedural with romance novel overtones, the new series "Tracker" (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14) gets TV's most coveted treatment. It will debut following the Super Bowl, enjoying the massive ratings headwinds that the …
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By Kevin McDonough
A cursory glance at right-wing obsessions tells us that "woke" culture drives some people crazy. But is it funny?
Peacock streams the new stop-motion animation satire "In the Know." Co-creator and producer Zach Woods …
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By Kevin McDonough
Television's obsession with cults, their leaders and unfortunate followers continues on "The Doomsday Prophet: Truth and Lies" (8 p.m., ABC). A production of ABC News, it returns to the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), …
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By Kevin McDonough
A psychological thriller with science-fiction and supernatural overtones, "Constellation" streams the first three of its eight episodes on Apple TV+ today.
A French-German-American production with a Swedish-speaking lead …
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By Kevin McDonough
January concludes with the arrival of the year's first great and unmissable series. Told over eight well-crafted episodes, "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans" (10 p.m. and 11:20 p.m., FX, TV-MA) can be approached in a number of ways. …
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