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Emmy winner Candice Bergen returns as the eponymous broadcast news legend in the revival of the groundbreaking comedy series "Murphy Brown."

The fall of Les Moonves, the resurrection of ‘Murphy Brown’: This fall, TV drama is onscreen and off

December 12, 2018 at 4:33 p.m.

Like the return of “Roseanne” or “Will & Grace” last year, the reboot of CBS’ “Murphy Brown” this month after 20 years off the air should be the big news...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A deeper look at the chillingly prescient second season

December 12, 2018 at 8:53 p.m.

The nation fell fast and right under everyone’s noses. There were warnings, of course, but they were hard to hear over the noise generated by partisan rancor, bully-pulpit politics and...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘The Mod Squad,’ ‘Adam-12’ and how TV brought the counterculture into 1968’s cop shows

December 14, 2018 at 1:09 p.m.

"One black, one white, one blonde" was the tagline for a new kind of cop show that premiered in 1968 on the heels of Vietnam's bloody Tet Offensive, the Rev....

John Legend as Jesus, and Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene in the NBC production "Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert."

NBC’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar Live’ shouldn’t have worked. Here’s why it did

December 17, 2018 at 4:22 p.m.

The pop star raised his hands, striking a messianic pose from the stage as the adoring crowd strained to touch the edges of his flowing robe. A savior greeting his...

‘Jessica Jones’ is back in smash mode in season 2

December 17, 2018 at 4:24 p.m.

Arguably the most popular character of Netflix-Marvel’s superhero franchise, Jessica Jones finds the fiercest battle is internal when she returns Thursday for Season 2 of “Marvel’s Jessica Jones.” The superhuman...

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the 2014 Oscars in Los Angeles.

Why the Oscars won’t be the same without their ringmaster, Harvey Weinstein

May 11, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

Even the customary Oscar gift bags given to top nominees before Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony indicated that this year’s celebration would be anything but show business as usual. The assortment...

Hillary Lebeb walks along the seawall in Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Harvey intensifies in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 25, 2017.

How Harvey is giving us a break from our pundit addiction

June 2, 2018 at 5:58 p.m.

Something unusual happened to national television news this week. News. Footage of reporters in soggy rain slickers and melting baseball caps, waist-deep in brackish water, delivering minute-by-minute accounts from flooded...

Rock Hall nominee Tupac Shakur popularized a sound — and became a myth

June 9, 2018 at 9:23 a.m.

When it was announced Tuesday that rapper Tupac Shakur was among the 19 acts nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there was little argument among...

Bruce Jenner and the shifting dynamics of TV’s transgender moment

April 5, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.

The stakes are high for Bruce Jenner, who in a highly anticipated interview airing Friday night is expected to reveal to Diane Sawyer what many have long speculated — that...

Recording artist Pitbull performs onstage at the 2014 American Music Awards.

Pitbull’s new album, ‘Globalization,’ continues his world push

June 18, 2018 at 5:24 a.m.

Like a bright yellow Hummer in a sea of gray Priuses, there's nothing subtle about Pitbull. Propelled by raw talent and a whole lot of moxie, the former reggaeton artist...

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