Considering that “Crossbones” is being marketed as a Blackbeard drama, it’s fairly disappointing that John Malkovich’s Blackbeard is around for less than 12 minutes of the premiere.
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It might have the worst title since “Cougar Town.”
It’s not edgy. It’s not flashy. It doesn’t break any new ground.
Here are four families in TV shows or films that have little resemblance to the Cleavers but still fostered healthy and loving environments for everyone in the family.
“The Night Shift” is like the medical equivalent of the network’s “Chicago Fire”: pretty people you barely care about saving the lives of less-pretty people you don’t care about at all while you pay bills, fold laundry or play with your phone.
“Little Women: L.A.” (10 p.m. Tuesday, Lifetime) follows six little people living in Los Angeles.
The cable channel is airing a marathon of 34 movies honoring servicemen and servicewomen, ranging from 1926’s World War I comedy-drama “The Better ‘Ole” to Clint Eastwood in 1970’s “Kelly’s Heroes.”
The drama, debuting Thursday, follows a detective who’s torn between his duties as a member of L.A.’s Gang Task Force and his ties to the neighborhood gang of his youth.
It starts out like a party. Fire Island. Summer. 1981. Life is great.
When multiplatinum country group Rascal Flatts appeared to be lip-synching at this year’s ACM Awards, the trio handled the aftermath with a little honesty and a lot of humor.
“I Wanna Marry ‘Harry,’ ” debuting at 9 p.m. Tuesday on KVVU-TV, Channel 5, tricks 12 extremely gullible American women into thinking they’re dating Prince Harry. The results are hilariously evil.
The AMC television network says it is using the social media site Tumblr to premiere its new series about the early days of personal computing.
Every awards show producer craves moments, the things they’d love for us to spend our Monday mornings talking about and marveling over. The Billboard Music Awards had a fair number Sunday night — some funny, some weird, some kind of creepy even.
Going into Monday’s last dances on “Dancing With the Stars,” Johnny Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, has listed Amy Purdy, the Cimarron-Memorial grad, and her parter, Derek Hough, the favorites at 7-5.
AT&T says it views its planned $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV as a way to help redefine the video entertainment industry, giving it opportunities to bundle services and tap into growing Latin American markets.
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