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Sigourney Weaver, Discovery Channel, and the BBC have teamed up for a month of Sundays to show us what 70 camera operators spending more than 2,000 days in 200 locations all over the globe can do.

Raines offers yet another quirky crime-solving cop. But Andy Barker, P.I. is the one worth investigating.

Thursday nights used to be simple: Just set the dial to NBC and put the popcorn in the microwave. This season, though, the night’s become a ratings battleground.

Not even the considerable writing, directing, and acting talents of Nicholas Pileggi, Tim Hunter, and Donnie Wahlberg and Jason Gedrick can make Kings of South Beach seem altogether fresh.

Nelson George, who co-wrote and directs Life Support, is thinking about his real-life sister Andrea, a community health activist in Bed-Stuy whose specialty is spreading the word about AIDS.

The Riches features a family of grifters�and the most scathing take on class relations anywhere on TV.

As if the Huns, Goths, Vikings, and Mongols of three years ago weren’t enough, the History Channel returns with four more hours of rape and pillage.

According to Independent Lens and filmmaker Frank Popper the answer is a resonant �maybe.�

The Black Donnellys presents a smart�if familiar� take on Irish guts and guilt.

From the Emmy-winning writer-producer-director Robert Levi comes this enthralling documentary film on the composer, arranger, and pianist that is, as well, a celebration of big bands like Duke Ellington’s, an account of Strayhorn’s troubles as a gay man in the homophobic jazz world of the forties and fifties, and a case history of Oedipal struggle.