TV Ratings for Oct. 14-20: 'Chicago' crossover helps NBC stay on top

All three elements of last Wednesday’s “Chicago” crossover were among the week’s six most-watched non-NFL programs, helping NBC to its second weekly victory of the 2019-20 prime-time television season. The crossover began with “Chicago Fire,” airing at 8 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, and attracting its largest audience since April 3, averaging 8.24 million…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

Review: Brutality of autobiographical 'Farming' overwhelms filmmaker's inspiring life story

Internalized self-hatred fuels a black skinhead finding validation by way of brutality in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming.” The mercilessly lurid account is based directly on the writer-director’s teenage experience as a product of a practice through which thousands of Nigerian parents fostered out their children to white British families between the 1960s and 1980s. Raised with…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0