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Season Premieres The Deuce  (HBO) Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, who also collaborated on HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," the semifictional drama series "The Deuce" tells of the germination of the sex-trade industry in the heart of New York's Times Square. It's the early 1970s, and the porn business begins a shift from organized crime-backed parlors to a legitimate, culturally acc...

  Series Premieres Carnival Row (Amazon Prime) A growing population of mythological immigrant creatures struggles to coexist with humans after the creatures' exotic homelands are invaded by the empires of man. The creatures are forbidden to live, love or fly with freedom, but hope lives in darkness. Human detective Rycroft "Philo" Philostrate and a refugee faerie, Vignette Stonemoss, rekindle...

The Referee and the Critic give us their final thoughts as they wrap up their coverage of this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Referee and the Critic give us their thoughts as they move into day 4 at TIFF 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sneak Peek : Monos On a faraway mountaintop, eight teenaged guerillas with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Playing games and initiating cult-like rituals, the children run amok in the jungle and disaster strikes when the hostage tries to escape. Director : Alejandro Landes Produced by : Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes Cast : Julianne Nicho...

Sneak Peek : Goldfinch Theodore Decker was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day -- a painting of a tiny bird chaine...

The Referee and the Critic give us their thoughts as they move into day 3 at TIFF 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Referee and the Critic give us their thoughts as they move into day 2 at TIFF 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Referee and the Critic give us their thoughts as they kick off day 1 at TIFF 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Referee and the Critic discuss the exciting films and shows coming to TIFF, Tribeca TV, and NYFF this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sneak Peek : Official Secrets One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on U.N. Security Council members to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world...

Series Premieres The Righteous Gemstones (HBO) Well into the second generation of a grand televangelist tradition, the world-famous Gemstone family is living proof that worship pays dividends in all sizes. Patriarch Eli, the man most responsible for the tremendous success of the family's megachurch, is in mourning over the loss of his wife. Jesse, the eldest of the three grown Gemstone siblings, l...

Sneak Peek : Brittany Runs a Marathon A hard-partying woman receives a startling wake-up call when a visit to the doctor reveals how unhealthy she is. Motivated to lose weight, she soon takes up running to help her prepare for her ultimate goal of competing in the New York City Marathon. Director : Paul Downs Colaizzo Produced by : Matthew Plouffe; Tobey Maguire; Margot Hand Cast : Jillian Bell, M...

Series Premieres Our Boys (HBO) Set in the summer of 2014, the series is based on the true events which led to the outbreak of war in Gaza. When three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants, Israel is shocked, shaken and furious. In an apparent response to the horrific act, the burned body of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir is found in a forest on the outskirts...

Series Premieres Bulletproof (CW) Detectives Bishop and Pike fight crime together on the streets of East London, sharing a similar moral code despite their drastically different backgrounds. Bishop grew up being passed around foster families, desperately looking for a father figure, while Pike's father was the first black police commissioner, whose expectations he is struggling to live up to. Thei...

Sneak Peek : Brian Banks The inspirational true story of Brian Banks, an all-American high school football star who finds his life upended when he's wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite the lack of evidence, Banks gets railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Inn...

Miniseries Premiere Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu) Four American friends reunite for a fabulous London wedding, but after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Mid-Season Check-Ins Younger (TV Land) Trying to start a new career gets more difficult as you age, which suddenly single-mom Liza realizes when she trie...

Sneak Peek : Luce A liberal-minded couple, Amy and Peter Edgar, are forced to reconsider their image of their adopted son after they discover he has written an extremely disturbing essay for his class at school. Director : Julius Onah Produced by : Julius Onah, John Baker, Andrew Yang Cast : Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Norbert Leo Butz, Tim Roth Distributor : NEON, Topi...

Series Premieres South Side (Comedy Central) Two friends and aspiring venture capitalists who just graduated from community college are ready to take over the world but must work at a rent-to-own store in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood until then. Another Life (Netflix) Astronaut Niko Breckinridge and her young crew face unimaginable dangers as they go on a high-risk mission to explore the genes...

The Lion King Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother -- and former heir to the throne -- has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is soon ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. Now, with help fro...

Series Update The Loudest Voice (Showtime) Based on the best-selling book "The Loudest Voice" by Gabriel Sherman, TV executive and media consultant Roger Ailes' life continues to be a source of interest to many due to the lasting effect he has had on the media world. Primarily focusing on the past decade when Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and defining events in Aile...

Series Premieres The Disappearance (WGN) Anthony Sullivan vanishes mysteriously on his 10th birthday while he is doing a treasure hunt. Anthony's entire family is devastated by his unexplained and very sudden disappearance and events begin the night before he vanishes and the investigation as it begins to take shape. The police search for signs of Anthony and long-buried, devastating family secret...

    Off the Cuff  is where you can get personal with the Critic and Referee. This mixed bag of topics could include Documentaries, Reality TV or Animation and will allow you to see what the co-hosts are doing in their free time. Does the greatest TV show actually exist? In this episode, the Critic and Referee dive deep into several shows which have been given this crown and let you...

TV Check-In Big Little Lies (HBO) Based on the same-titled best-seller by Liane Moriarty, "Big Little Lies" weaves a darkly comedic tale of murder and mischief in the tranquil beachfront town of Monterey, Calif. Amidst doting moms, successful husbands, beautiful children, and stunning homes exists a community fueled by rumors and divided into haves and have-nots, exposing fractured relationships b...

Spider-Man: Far From Home Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Director : Jon Watts Produced by : Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal Cast : Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei, Jake Gyllenhaal Distributor : Sony Pictures Relea...