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There is something comforting about a period drama. Perhaps it's the escapism we're afforded by looking into an era we don't live in, or the aesthetic that's unfamiliar to our own - or maybe it's the lavish production that often accompanies period pieces, offering endless hours of dreaming and distraction. Whatever the reason for their appeal, costume dramas continue to beguile contemporary audiences, as proven with the recent popularity of Shonda Rhimes' Bridgerton.

Find out what's on Newsmax tonight at the American TV Listings Guide 5:30 pm New The Mark Kaye Show 6:00 pm New Rob Carson's What In The World? 6:30 pm New Diamond and Silk Crystal Clear 7:00 pm New Michelle Malkin Sovereign Nation 7:30 pm New The Benny Report 8:00 pm New Vote for America 2020 10:00 pm Elvis and the Memphis Mafia 11:30 pm Marilyn Monroe: Fascination

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I know you’re not supposed to review a TV show on the basis of a single episode, but I don’t think I’m going to make it past episode one of the second season of Jack Ryan. Its full title is Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan but it might as well be called Noam Chomsky’s Jack Ryan. Take the fictional version of Venezuela where most of the action is set. Its economy is in the toilet, the people are starving, and it’s on the verge of becoming a failed state. So far, so accurate. But the reason this Venezuela is such a...

In this age of targeted advertising, I don’t think I have ever been owned by an algorithm as hard as whatever told Amazon to try to and get me to watch The Boys. YouTube ads, sponsored hashtags, Facebook feed spots, I literally could not escape ads for the superhero show, and it was like Amazon was only stopping short of having someone physically shake me and yell “This is a show for you!” in my face. Well, the algorithm was right. I really, really loved The Boys, which clocks in at a tight eight episodes for its first season, which...

Got my Himedia box connected to the internet. Don't get old, it was my problem all along. Now to try and find where I can watch the last 2 episodes of Gracepoint for free or the cheapest. But till then a couple of days back I started watching Prison Break. I can't say how much this old show (14 years ago) is riveting and enjoyable!!!! I've got seasons 1 thru 4 recorded so I'll be watching and watching. And poking around I was reminded that there was a season 5 back in '17 and they are trying to get production...

[Snip] It’s 2019. Television is at the zenith of its powers of influence and, in the real world, times are troubled, fueled by existential dread, blatant racism, xenophobia, and sexism, much of it funneled straight from the White House. If TV wants to be the dominant art form, then it must hold itself to a higher standard of conversation, a standard that that its current crop of prestige dramas, including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Big Little Lies,” and recently concluded cultural phenomenon “Game of Thrones,” fall, repeatedly and spectacularly, short of. Too often these shows – and many others, at many...

Of late I have been watching what I consider to be some pretty good spy shows. So I am going to list them. I have ROKU and most of these I found available on streaming channels. Epix Channel: Here is found two really good shows worth watching: "Berlin Station" series set in modern Berlin of the CIA station there. "Deep State": Modern day spy series set in the U.S., England, and the Middle East. The plot is pretty believable and concerns the Military Industrial Complex. On Showtime I have been binge watching "Homeland". Great show and plot, I have just...

List of the best TV shows to rewatch, as ranked by television fans and critics. When the weekend comes around and you can’t bring yourself to get out of your PJs and go out into the sun, it can be nice to have a lazy few days doing nothing but having a marathon of your past favorite shows.

Eliza Dushku was written off CBS' "Bull" after she confronted Michael Weatherly about his behavior, according to a new report in the New York Times. The Times said when Dushku appeared on "Bull" last year, there were "well-developed plans" to make her a full-time cast member, but those plans allegedly ended after she came forward with allegations against the show's star. Dushku played a lawyer alongside Weatherly for just three episodes in Season 1. According to a draft report from lawyers hired by CBS' board to investigate the company's culture and sexual misconduct allegations and reviewed by the Times, Dushku...

Fox’s Last Man Standing revival premiered on Friday night to 8 million total viewers and a 1.8 demo rating, improving greatly upon its previous premiere on ABC (6 mil/1.1) as well as its Season 6 average (6.9 mil/1.2). In fact, LMS delivered its best rating since its Season 2 opener on ABC (which did a 2.0), and led Fox to its highest rated Premiere Week Friday in seven years and its most watched Friday in nine-and-a-half years. Leading out of that, The Cool Kids retained 6.8 mil and a 1.5. Hell’s Kitchen (3.1 mil/0.9) matched its previous premiere and season...

So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things up, blending drama, comedy and other genres to salute the shows with the biggest cultural impact and most enduring influence.

Full title: 'Three's Company' actor Peter Mark Richman reveals what it was like working with Suzanne Somers, Sophia LorenIn 1952, Peter Mark Richman left a $35 a week job as a pharmacist in Pennsylvania to follow the bright lights of Hollywood — and now he’s telling all. The actor, 91, has over 500 TV appearances under his belt for numerous hit shows, including “Twilight Zone,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “Star Trek,” just to name a few. As a notorious villain on screen, he’s managed to die in every possible way on camera. And Richman also found success appearing in numerous films...

This just in: President Kirkman will not be seeking re-election. ABC has cancelled Kiefer Sutherland’s political thriller Designated Survivor after two seasons, TVLine has confirmed. Averaging a 0.7 demo rating and 4 million total weekly viewers thus far this season (in Live+Same Day numbers), Designated Survivor ranks ninth and seventh among all ABC dramas, having dropped sharply from its freshman averages (1.2/5.8 million). Designated Survivor airs Wednesdays at 10/9c, with its season finale set for May 16. ABC will hold its annual Upfront Presentation to advertisers, where its complete 2018-19 schedule and new programming announcements are revealed, on Tuesday, May...

"We all struggle with questions of our true identity, our identity with our loved ones, and our public personas," says Joe Weisberg, the creator of FX's cold-war drama The Americans, which begins its final season on March 28, in an exclusive interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie. "In this final season, that all comes to a head for the characters, who have to deal with it in their careers as spies, challenging their loyalty to their family, but also testing it against their loyalty to one another in their marriage, and their loyalty to their country, and their core idealistic beliefs."

The successful but hard-drinking detective has been a staple of film noir since the days of Humphrey Bogart. But it’s not very often that you see a police detective addicted to morphine. Babylon Berlin, the subtitled German TV series whose first two seasons debuted on Netflix at the start of the month, is a look at a 20th century Pompeii – you know there are no happy endings for the characters in a series set in Weimar Germany in 1929. In Chinatown, Jack Nicholson tells Faye Dunaway that back when he was a rookie policeman assigned by the police force...

Short video from the show of two drama queens at work.

Amazon Productions has just released season 1 of “Electric Dreams.” Allegedly based upon Dick’s short stories and produced somewhere in Europe, it is a vastly disappointing mishmash. Badly written by screenwriters, incoherently directed, and produced apparently by people who don’t know a hologram from a hamster, it is, IMHO, the biggest Amazon TV disappointment of the year. Amazon, which is about to release season 3 of the excellent Dick's “Man in the High Castle,” has gone way off the rails with “Electric Dreams.” How could they have screwed up this badly? “Electric Dreams” has no understanding of scifi or of...

All nine episodes of original drama series Britannia will premiere Friday, January 26 on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon also has released the trailer for the series which charts the Roman invasion of what would become Great Britain in 43 A.D.

There’s a madman in the White House and they’re trying to impeach him. Oh, we mean on “Madam Secretary,” of course. In Sunday’s episode of the Téa Leoni-led CBS drama, President Conrad Dalton’s (Keith Carradine) uncharacteristically irrational behavior means that he could be removed from office on account of the 25th Amendment.