#Worth Watching: Nat Geo Tackles Everest, Oprah and 100 Black Fathers, ‘Betty Broderick’

“#Worth Watching: Nat Geo Tackles Everest, Oprah and 100 Black Fathers, ‘Betty Broderick’” A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV: Lost on Everest (9/8c, National Geographic): Returning to one of its favorite subjects and exotic locales, Nat Geo enlists journalist/climber Mark Synnott and photographer/mountaineer Renan Ozturk to try to solve an enduring mystery: What…

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#Worth Watching: Nick News Returns With Message of Unity, Lifetime Revives ‘Prayers for Bobby,’ a ‘Cannonball’ Preview

“#Worth Watching: Nick News Returns With Message of Unity, Lifetime Revives ‘Prayers for Bobby,’ a ‘Cannonball’ Preview” A selective critical checklist of notable Monday TV: Kids, Race and Unity: A Nick News Special (7/6c, Nickelodeon): For 25 years, under the leadership of the great (and now-retired) Linda Ellerbee, Nick News helped put the most pressing…

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#Ask Matt: The Fiction of ‘Hollywood,’ Debating ‘Perry Mason,’ Fun with ‘House Hunters,’ Curses on ‘Yellowstone’ & More

“#Ask Matt: The Fiction of ‘Hollywood,’ Debating ‘Perry Mason,’ Fun with ‘House Hunters,’ Curses on ‘Yellowstone’ & More” Welcome to the Q&A with TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in…

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#Worth Watching: Daytime Emmys, Christine Lahti as ‘Gloria,’ a ‘Pose-a-Thon’

“#Worth Watching: Daytime Emmys, Christine Lahti as ‘Gloria,’ a ‘Pose-a-Thon’” A selective critical checklist of notable weekend TV: The 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (8/7c, CBS): Not shown on a broadcast network since 2001, the celebration of all things daytime returns to prime time on CBS, the most nominated network with 57. (Unlike the primetime…

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#Roush Review: Returning to ‘The Twilight Zone’

“#Roush Review: Returning to ‘The Twilight Zone’” How Rod Serling would have appreciated 2020, a year ripe for fantastical allegory, with a pandemic and a social revolution vying for headlines. Conversely, those who’ve felt like they’ve been living in a twilight zone for months may relish the opportunity to escape into a second season of…

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#Worth Watching: ‘Twilight Zone’ Returns, ‘Search Party’ on HBO Max, Lifetime’s ‘Power of Women’

“#Worth Watching: ‘Twilight Zone’ Returns, ‘Search Party’ on HBO Max, Lifetime’s ‘Power of Women’” A selective critical checklist of notable Thursday TV: The Twilight Zone (streaming on CBS All Access): Welcome back to that special region of the mind that “lies between the pit of one’s fears and the summit of one’s knowledge.” Executive producer…

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#Worth Watching: ‘Lenox Hill’ During the Pandemic, HGTV’s ‘Hot Mess House,’ ‘Time for Change’ on ESPN, Time-Dripping on ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’

“#Worth Watching: ‘Lenox Hill’ During the Pandemic, HGTV’s ‘Hot Mess House,’ ‘Time for Change’ on ESPN, Time-Dripping on ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’” A selective critical checklist of notable Wednesday TV: Lenox Hill (streaming on Netflix): In the eighth and (at the time) final episode of this immersive documentary series about the doctors and patients of the fabled New…

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