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Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: In honor of the Netflix release of Sundance sensation Dick Johnson Is Dead, we’re looking back on other documentaries with deeply personal angles.

An unavoidable fact of life is that sometimes a whole lot of people are going to make the same joke at once. It happens, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. For example, everyone you know who writes about or even really likes television has probably let this one fly at some point in the past few weeks in the past few months…

Just hours after former reality TV host Donald Trump announced he and his wife tested positive for COVID-19, Neon released the very dramatic trailer for Totally Under Control, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger, and Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about the Trump administration’s coronavirus pandemic response.…

Actor Rick Moranis was randomly punched in the head by a stranger close to his New York apartment, CBS affiliate WLNY reports. Security footage from the Upper West Side captured the attack early Thursday morning. In the video, Moranis is seen walking by himself on the right side of the sidewalk. A man dressed in all…

After getting off to a solid start with “Cake Week,” The Great British Baking Show is back for what is often one of the more underappreciated episodes, “Biscuit Week.” Rarely as complicated as the other categories of bakes, cookies are one of the most familiar and reliable types of bakes, which means the bakers…

“All of this is true. Most of it happened,” is the key tagline for Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird, an adaptation of author James McBride’s acclaimed novel of the same name, which recounts key events that lead to the Civil War through a fictional lens. As McBride and miniseries star/Executive Producer Ethan Hawke put…

Perhaps you were awake last night when news broke that a former reality TV host had tested positive for Covid-19, as did his wife, who hates Christmas. It was a hell of a time to be on the internet. Someone on The Washington Post’s social team was definitely awake, because they were able to remove a…

Spare a thought for Melania Trump, sick in bed while her hard-won title of America’s Christmas Champion is in jeopardy thanks to leaked audio of her talking about, among other things, how much she hates decorating for Christmas.

Tis the season: It’s the spooky month of Halloween that’s become known for tormenting children. Luckily, Halloween costumes are already doing the job for us! Here are io9's picks of some of the worst costumes parents can force their babies and toddlers into this socially distant season.

Aspiring stand-up comedian Mike Binder was a fresh-faced teenager from Detroit when he, running late for a make-or-break audition at Los Angeles’ Comedy Store, hopped a fence, ruined his suit, and found himself trying to impress Mitzi Shore. Luckily, his material and unlikely composure impressed the legendary Comedy…

Last week saw the arrival of an instant meme legend: A guy riding a longboard who filmed himself singing along to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” between pulls on a big bottle of cranberry juice. Now, thanks to the clip demonstrating how you, too, can achieve the same kind of bliss with a little help from a nice beverage,…

There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and more on our Spotify playlist, and if you like what you hear, we encourage you to purchase featured artists’ music…

HBO Max announced an October surprise of its own: a star-studded film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.

Charlie Carver was in London filming The Batman when the world fell apart earlier this year. “I’d actually just sort of finished a sequence and was debating on whether or not to fly home to Los Angeles or spend some time in Europe while they were on location,” the SAG-nominated actor says on the latest episode of The…

DreamWorks and Netflix’s Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts comes to its thrilling conclusion in October, and whether this tale end in triumph or tragedy is still kind of a toss-up. Any semblance of surface world peace will not come easily: With the syrupy-toned force of evil Dr. Emilia (Amy Landecker) hellbent on…

To celebrate the launch of the new Toasted Cheesy Chalupa, Taco Bell Canada recently partnered with popular winery Queenston Mile Vineyard for a limited release of its very first house wine. Ontario residents snapped up every bottle of Jalapeño Noir within mere minutes, no doubt looking forward to pairing the earthy…

At any given point in a day, Ewan McGregor must be under a lot of pressure to look like he knows what he’s doing. He did play Obi-Wan Kenobi after all, and he’s one of the most respected and capable Jedi in the whole galaxy, so every time McGregor does anything he runs the risk of tarnishing Obi-Wan Kenobi’s…

It’s tough to pinpoint the exact origins of the expression “elevated horror.” But it was sometime around the middle of last decade that someone coined the term to refer to a new renaissance of atmospheric, critically acclaimed scary movies like It Follows, The Babadook, and The Witch. Is it a useful distinction or…

The actor: You should see Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a crown. A classically trained actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Oxford, England-born Mbatha-Raw’s cinematic breakthrough came in 2013 with the titular role in Amma Asante’s stately period piece, Belle. This fall, she co-stars in Misbehaviour, a historical…

Hey, Saturday Night Live is coming back! Go ahead and gripe your accurate but irrelevant gripes about a now 46-year-old TV show’s reliance on stunt casting, watery politics, then occasional racist dirtbag host, recycled characters, and a steadfast unwillingness to stop adding featured players to an already overstuffed…

Donald Trump and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19: “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19,” Trump tweeted just before 1 a.m. ET on Friday. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!”

Four months after being canceled by the Paramount Network—amidst the opening weeks of a still-fervent protest movement denouncing the treatment of Black people and other minorities by America’s police—long-running reality series Cops has apparently begun filming episodes again. This is per The Hollywood Reporter,…

Every city has the place where the punks go, that anodyne strip of sidewalk where the sneery disaffected kids congregate on the weekend nights when there isn’t anything else to do. In 1990s Baltimore, for whatever reason, that place was the corner outside the Towson Commons, the suburban multiplex just north of town.…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, October 2, and Saturday, October 3. All times are Eastern.