Day: July 3, 2020

News and Quick Comments

More on the 4th: CNN jumps in

There’s a late addition to our stay-at-home choices for the 4th of July.
This one is on CNN – a four-hour marathon that offers an early start for the West Coast. PBS ad NBC (see separate stories) start at 8 p.m. ET/PT, continuing (counting reruns) until 11; CNN goes from 8 to midnight ET … which is 5-9 p.m. PT.
Don Lemon will host for CNN from New York, with Dana Bash in Washington. This will include the fireworks from both cities, plus Houston, Nashville and Jacksonville. It adds lots of music, including Andy Grammer (shown here), who will also be on PBS. Also performing are: Read more…

By Mike Hughes / July 3, 2020
Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for July 6: Tough guys, angry women

1) “POV: The Vote,” 9-11 p.m. today and Tuesday, PBS. Sure, there are plenty of protests this summer; a century ago, however, was another matter. “No one had ever picketed outside the White House,” historian Tina Cassidy says here. Then women did in 1917, demanding the vote. There were arrests, sentences, hunger strikes … and (on Aug. 26, 1920) victory. It was a slow path, for a movement (shown here) that was organized in 1848. This film gets lost in the in-fighting, but then returns to a passionate story. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / July 3, 2020
Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for July 5; premium channels rule with fact and fiction

1) “Outcry” or “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” 10 p.m., Showtime or HBO. Two crime documentaries collide. Last Sunday, HBO launched the six-week “Dark,” researching the “Golden State Killer” and his victims. Now Showtime starts the five-week “Outcry”: Greg Kelley (shown here) was a high school football player in Texas whose world crumbled. His father had a stroke, his mother had a brain tumor, he stayed in a home that had a day care – then was accused of molestation. The film follows efforts to free him. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / July 3, 2020