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Elizabeth Warren plays a billionaire guessing game with Stephen Colbert

The Massachusetts senator has discussed billionaires and vast wealth early and often during her campaign for president and in her latest turn on late-night television, “The Late Show” host turned that habit into a game.

CBS builds series around ‘Silence of the Lambs’ heroine

The show will be called “Clarice” and it will find Starling in the aftermath of the events of “Silence of the Lambs,” in 1993, hunting other serial killers and predators in Washington, D.C.

When chemistry experiments succeed

I’m thinking about ensembles because of all the recent talk about “Friends,” a series that, along with “Cheers,” “The Office,” and “Seinfeld,” is an ensemble classic.

AMC’s ‘Dispatches From Elsewhere’ sends characters (and viewers) on a surreal scavenger hunt

The new series is oblique but not off-putting.

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In ‘Sanditon,’ surprises don’t arrive by the book
Turns out Andrew Davies, the screenwriter who took Jane Austen’s unfinished last novel and expanded it into a full “Masterpiece” story line, had some non-Austenian twists in mind.

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Dating shows for seniors? Why not?
ABC’s reality head, Rob Mills, says that a planned show will feature singles age 65 and over.

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The week in TV: My I’ll-get-around-to-it list, Segel’s ‘Dispatches,’ and teen heartbreak

Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.

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Julia Roberts headlines TV adaptation of Slate podcast on Watergate

Sean Penn, Armie Hammer, and Joel Edgerton to costar in “Gaslit.”

The best TV episodes of the 2000s? Let’s get started

Imagine trying to pick out the peak episodes of the Peak TV era. That’s exactly what I’m going to try to do, with your help.

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A local helps make ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ sing

Alex Newell, who grew up in Lynn, plays Zoey’s gender-fluid neighbor Mo.

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In Amazon’s pulpy ‘Hunters,’ Nazis get a beatdown

Created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele, the show is audacious, tonally complex, not always in control of its message, visually arresting, and, particularly in its grim flashbacks to the brutalities and the courage in the death camps, moving.

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Late-night talk shows: the morning-after option

Pop TV and Comedy Central are going to be carrying next-day encores of some late-night talk shows.

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‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ makes the most of its music

There’s sweet and lively entertainment to be found in the regular musical sequences, which play like pieces of a jukebox musical, the jukebox being filled with pop songs by the likes of Cyndi Lauper and Van Morrison.

This week’s TV: Streaming growth, Al Pacino’s Nazi hunters, and, yup, another debate

Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.