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TV News & Reviews

Scott Grimes serious about the comedy of ‘The Orville’

The second season for Seth MacFarlane's Fox sci-fi series, "The Orville," launches Sunday, and series star Scott Grimes is again beginning to hear the comparisons to the 1999 Tim Allen feature film "Galaxy Quest." Although the network program contains some humor – much of it provided by Grimes – the series is far closer to "Star Trek" than to the movie that poked fun at the space exploration TV show genre.

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Was this the year that TV broke TV?

The flat screen on your living room wall, the cable box below it and the digital program guide that help you find your way through an increasingly congested universe of shopping networks, reality show repeats and the eight channels you actually watch might as well have been inhabitants of a dying star in 2018.

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From ‘My Brilliant Friend’ to ‘Babylon Berlin,’ American TV went global, and that’s good news for all

One of my favorite television shows of 2018 is the 2015 French dramedy "Call My Agent!" (called "Dix pour cent," or "10 Percent," in the original), about a Parisian talent agency. I was slow to find it, but a friend, an ordinary, TV nonprofessional friend, told me about it. (Thanks, Nina.) I find that interesting in itself and part of what seems to be a trend: American TV viewers are increasingly watching foreign-language series and talking about them.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Season 2 (Official Trailer)

A housewife in the 1950s decides to become a stand-up comic.