MSNBC is expanding its live news programming lineup, including a new Saturday show hosted by conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.

Hewitt, best known as a host for the right-leaning Salem Radio Network, will have a half-hour Saturday morning program airing at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The move is likely to get some gimlet-eyed looks from MSNBC viewers...Read more

On a Wednesday night that offered what's become the now-standard assortment of political recaps -- Seth Meyers' closer look at the Senate's mysterious health care bill, Samantha Bee with a vaguely Germanic look at keywords in fake news on "Full Frontal" -- Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show" stood out with a segment that left comedy behind entirely....Read more

Continuing what appears to be a concerted effort in recent months to demystify the royal family, Prince Harry granted Newsweek an extensive interview, printed Thursday, detailing his attempts at normalcy and continuing the legacy of his late mother

Harry even suggested that no one in the royal family is itching to take over for Queen Elizabeth ...Read more

Director-writer Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" from 2014, was such an original, revelatory vision -- a hallucinatory vampire story set in an otherworldly mashup of California and Iran shot in a luminescent black and white -- that it set the bar impossibly high for what she decided to do next. Sadly, her ...Read more

Before ancient Mesopotamia was transformed into 20th-century Iraq, the extraordinary British diplomat, mountaineer, archaeologist and spy Gertrude Bell was working to carve up the Middle East into principalities that Europe could comfortably control. She and her compatriot, T.E. Lawrence, helped arm the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Turks, ...Read more

"Wakefield" is a symphony of wrong notes. For one, the star is Bryan Cranston, who always seems to be trying hard to force it in every performance. Here he plays Howard Wakefield, a prominent lawyer spiked with bile, who comes to his lovely suburban home after work and suffers one doozy of a midlife crisis. Rather than greeting his lovely wife (...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: My question may be a little outdated and possibly something you have already addressed, but is there a reason the first two seasons of "Knots Landing" were released on DVD, and not the remaining 12? Was the decision based on poor sales of the first two seasons?

A: "We'd love to release the rest of ...Read more

"The Exception" is a period story about a king without a throne, star-crossed lovers and espionage -- but mostly it's about Nazis.

From an obscure episode of World War II, the film crafts one of the most bewildering love triangles in memory, giving us a peculiar emotional menage a trois. The members are Germany's exiled monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm ...Read more

ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL. 3 stars. Manhattan DA mounts a shaky mortgage fraud case against a family-run Chinatown bank, gets more than he bargained for from close-knit Chinese-American family. From director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"). 1 hr. 30 No MPAA rating (adult themes) -- Gary Thompson

ALIEN: COVENANT. 2 stars. Katherine Waterston and ...Read more

Of course it's not good. "Good" would only get in the way. The new "Transformers" movie sits right on the beam, qualitatively, with the previous three sequels (the first one was a mite less ... I don't know, something). So be warned or be encouraged, depending on your allegiance to the earlier movies.

Of course it'll be profitable. The previous...Read more

In the lovely, lively new Netflix comedy "GLOW," which premieres Friday morning a minute after midnight, Alison Brie plays Ruth, a never-hired actress in 1985 Hollywood who stumbles into the world of professional wrestling.

"Every director says, 'Bring me someone I don't know, someone I haven't seen, I want a girl who's real,'" a casting ...Read more

"Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," the new documentary from Steve James ("Hoop Dreams"), is another underdog story, though in this case, the underdog takes the unlikely form of a New York bank that trafficked in dubious mortgages.

The title is a riff on the phrase "too big to fail," a term applied to giant New York banks that cynically packaged ...Read more