Remembering ‘The Greatest Night in Pop,’ ‘Irrational’ Returns, Rosario Dawson’s ‘Celebrity IOU’
A music documentary relives the all-star recording nearly 40 years ago of “We Are the World.” NBC’s The Irrational returns to finish its first season. Ahsoka’s Rosario Dawson plays real-life superhero for a friend on Celebrity IOU.
The Greatest Night in Pop
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Everyone who was anyone in the music business, from Diana Ross and Tina Turner to Billy Joel and Bob Dylan, convened in a recording studio on the hectic night of Jan. 25, 1985, to perform “We Are the World,” an anthem to raise money for African famine relief. A documentary relives that memorable night, with Lionel Richie (who co-wrote the song with Michael Jackson) among the many participants recalling the chaos and the fellowship, a who’s-who including Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Loggins, Dionne Warwick, Huey Lewis and so many more.
The Irrational
Jesse L. Martin returns as behavioral science expert and Professor Alec Mercer as the crime drama returns to finish out its first season, already renewed for a second. In the opener, Alec investigates an arson, with a young burn victim triggering his own past trauma. Elsewhere, his grad-student assistants Phoebe (Molly Kunz) and Rizwan (Arash DeMaxi) compete for a research grant.
Celebrity IOU
The feel-good renovation series features Ahsoka star Rosario Dawson doing right by someone who has been a special person in her life since she was 19. With the help of Jonathan and Drew Scott, she plans a surprise upgrade of his unique home.
TMZ Investigates
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TMZ didn’t exist in the 1980s, but would have had a field day with the sensational 1982 murder of rising star Dominique Dunne (Poltergeist) and the ensuing controversial trial of her ex-boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney. Her killer’s conviction of manslaughter, not murder, was met with protests and a published journal by her father, journalist-author Dominick Dunne.
INSIDE MONDAY TV:
- America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League (8/7c, NBC): The semi-finals get underway, with two of the remaining acts receiving Golden Buzzers and moving on to the finals. A third act will be chosen by audience vote.
- The Bachelor (8/7c, ABC): It’s a busy episode for Joey, who goes on the first group date and the first one-on-one.
- Yellowstone (9/8c and 10/9c, CBS): The final episodes of Season 3 end on an explosive cliffhanger.
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Haven't we seen The Irrational before? With different actors, but the same exact premise: a researcher/educator specializing in human behavior becomes a police/FBI consultant. Also has to have an official 'handler' or guardian. Been there, seen that... dozens of times. The '00s was the heyday of the "non-LEO consultant" show, but it's still alive & well.
Anyone watch Miss Scarlet last night? I'm confused about Duke's "big" decision... his reasoning didn't make sense to me.
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I enjoy having at least one procedural show in my TV diet so we've been watching The Irrational but it's definitely a well-trod subgenre. Psyche, Medium, and The Mentalist all come to mind (no pun intended). I only saw a handful of episodes of those collectively but I really liked Bones, where the consultant was sorta known for not specializing in human behavior given her socially awkward/cloistered disposition.
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A few years ago Alan Cumming was in a show just like The Irrational. It was called Instinct. I thought it was pretty good.
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I remember that but never watched it despite liking the actor; chances are good that it's better than Irrational.
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Unfortunately, Instinct didn't last more than a season. It was pretty good. Unfortunately, I think a lot of people's appetites for that type of show must have been saturated. (Either that, or there were 'other reasons' why the show didn't last.) A few years prior there was also another show, on TNT or some such cable channel, called Perception. Eric McCormack played the main character (a neuropsychiatrist) in that one.
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I just took it as him wanting to break the cycle they're stuck in. Like the status quo is they love each other but she doesn't want to be limited by marriage, and he's already found that he can't move on with someone else while he's around her in London. So I think he's thinking either she'll miss him enough to change her mind, or they'll get over each other because of the distance, and either one is preferable to the current dynamic.
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Yeah, I feel like I might have missed an important line from Duke. But to me it doesn't make sense for him to leave. It seems to me there was no problem with them "courting" (dating?) up til now, I know they had dinner dates from time to time. But it may be that he doesn't want a wife or woman who works every day, especially not as a private detective. As much as he cares about Eliza, he would probably prefer that she stay home and be a 'proper' woman, including taking care of any and all babies that come along. In any case, I wonder how long he'll be gone.
(when he said he didn't know if he wanted to be a 'copper' anymore, it made me wonder if he might end up joining the detective agency at some point.)
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That "We Are the World" doc is gonna be nostalgia bomb.
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Such great talents were involved . I’ll never forget watching that iconic video when I was a teen.
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