Eric Deggans

Tv and Media Critic for the Saint Petersburg Times

Eric Deggans appears in the following:

These TV Services (And More) Are Offering Free Access

Friday, April 24, 2020

Streamers and networks like HBO and AppleTV+ are offering access for free during the pandemic lockdown, and old standbys like PBS are revisiting or reinventing offerings.

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Chris Evans Plays A Prosecutor In 'Defending Jacob' Series

Friday, April 24, 2020

Superhero movie star Chris Evans plays a more down-to-earth role of a prosecutor whose 14-year-old son is accused of a murder in Defending Jacob, a limited series on Apple TV+.

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'The Last Dance' On ESPN Follows The Swan Song Of Michael Jordan's Bulls

Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls were the great NBA team of the 1990s. A new 10-part ESPN documentary series looks at the last season of one of the greatest basketball teams in history.

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Cast And Audience Both Do 'Saturday Night Live At Home'

Sunday, April 12, 2020

With the cast in isolation, "Saturday Night Live" goes remote with mixed success.

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Late Night Hosts Are Also Working From Home — With Varying Results

Thursday, April 09, 2020

Late-night comedy talk shows have been forced to work without audiences. Hosts like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are doing shows from home — some more successfully than others.

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The Alternate History Of 'The Plot Against America' Comes To HBO

Monday, March 16, 2020

Philip Roth's alternate-history novel The Plot Against America has been adapted into an HBO drama. It imagines the anti-Semitic hero Charles Lindbergh winning the United States presidency in 1940.

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Review: In Its 3rd Season, 'Westworld' Is Less Confusing, More Entertaining

Saturday, March 14, 2020

HBO's sci-fi drama Westworld starts its third season tonight. This season streamlines the story and focuses on the quest by an artificial person to destroy human civilization in the future.

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NAACP Image Awards Recognizes Artists Snubbed By Mainstream

Sunday, February 23, 2020

The 51st NAACP Image Awards aired live on BET last night. In a year when the Oscars and other big awards failed to largely recognize people of color, the Image Awards grow in importance.

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Flashy, Splashy 'Hunters' Is More Fun Than It Should Be

Friday, February 21, 2020

Al Pacino is the marquee attraction in Hunters, Amazon's new show about Nazi hunters in the 1970s — but the story is splashy and electric enough that he's not the most interesting thing in it.

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Review: Season 5 Begins Friday For 'Better Call Saul'

Friday, February 21, 2020

The hit AMC show Better Caul Saul returns for another season. The Breaking Bad prequel is edging closer to the time when Saul became the fixer for Walter White's meth operation.

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Ja'Net Dubois, 'Good Times' Star, Dies At 74

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Actress, singer and composer Ja'Net DuBois has died. She won two Emmys for her voice-over work on The PJs and she co-wrote and sang the theme to The Jeffersons.

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Review: Showtime's 'Homeland' Launches Final Season

Friday, February 07, 2020

The eighth and final season of the CIA spy series Homeland premieres Sunday with Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin. One criticism that has dogged Homeland over the years, is how it portrays Muslims

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Super Bowl Ads 2020: Strange, Serious, Smaaht, And So Very Expensive

Sunday, February 02, 2020

Commercials cost as much as $5.6 million per 30 seconds this year. Here's how some of America's largest corporations (and Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump) spent their money.

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Influential TV Programmer Fred Silverman Dies At 82

Thursday, January 30, 2020

The television executive worked for CBS, ABC and NBC, programming shows like All in the Family, Roots, Charlie's Angels, The Jeffersons, Scooby-Doo and M*A*S*H. Silverman died Thursday at age 82.

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'First, Last And Always, I Am A Fan': Michael Chabon Steers Latest 'Star Trek'

Thursday, January 23, 2020

The Pulitzer prize-winning author says he never had the "chutzpah" to dream of writing for Star Trek. But now, he's showrunner and executive producer on Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access.

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New In TV Sneak Peek

Monday, January 20, 2020

The winter TV Critics Association press tour just wrapped up in Los Angeles, with streamers and networks unveiling a slew of even more programs. How to keep up?

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Review: 'Little America'

Saturday, January 18, 2020

The new AppleTV+ series Little America fictionalizes true stories of immigrants.

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TV Review: HBO's Version Of Stephen King's 'The Outsider'

Friday, January 10, 2020

The HBO series begins as a straightforward investigation into a boy's murder. The program, which debuts Sunday, takes a dark subject and adds an even darker twist.

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Hollywood Awards Season Kicks Off With Golden Globes

Monday, January 06, 2020

The 77th Golden Globe Awards were held in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sunday night. Stars of screens big and small were on hand.

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Examining The Last Decade In Television

Monday, December 30, 2019

The two big stories of the decade boiled down to: volume and streaming. Viewers had thousands of new shows to choose from and they could binge-watch as many as they wanted and they didn't need cable.

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