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This is it, finally, the end of the 2020 presidential election cycle. But we’still got Nov. 3 itself, and the final showdown between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, to get out of the way. PBS NewsHour will be there, as it always is, with a huge dedicated programming bloc on Tuesday’s Election Night that will be freely available to stream so long as you’ve got an internet connection and a device that can access it.

The PBS NewsHour Election Night special — which doesn’t have any kind of grandiose, catchy name — will begin at 6 p.m. Et/3 p.m. Pt, an hour before the first polls close on the East Coast and the results start to roll in. NewsHour managing editor Judy Woodruff will be running the show.

But she won’t be alone — far from it. We’ll also see Amna Nawaz, Lisa Desjardins and Amy Walter in...

In today’s TV news roundup, PBS NewsHour announced a special focusing on the coronavirus pandemic, and Netflix unveiled cast members and key art for its upcoming adaptation of “The Baby-Sitters Club.”

Casting

“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” has announced additional casting for its second season. The Disney Plus original series has added Roman Banks (Broadway’s “Dear Evan Hansen”) and Olivia Rose Keegan (“Days of Our Lives”) in recurring roles. Banks will play Howie, a brainy junior that works at a pizza shop. Keegan will play Lily, an energetic freshman whose sweetness masks her highly competitive nature. The series is executive produced by Tim Federle. The second season is set to premiere later this year.

Netflix has announced cast members for its new series “The Baby-Sitters Club,” based off the best-selling book series of the same name. Sophie Grace will play Kristy Thomas; Malia Baker is Mary...

A huge election night means a lot of drama and chaos and general madness, and a lot of those folks who are looking for the least partisan analysis and breakdowns of what’s going on like to turn to PBS and its “NewsHour” program for its comparably calm reporting.

It’s a good thing, then, that in addition to being freely available over the air everywhere in the U.S., PBS will provide streaming options that are as easy to deal with as they come.

Starting at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt, you’ll be able to stream all of PBS NewsHour’s coverage of the 2018 midterm election results on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Ustream. No logins required anywhere. Just click on any of those links and you’ll find what you need.

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Fox News took heat Tuesday and Wednesday for comparatively slight coverage of Tuesday’s convictions of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and former campaign chair Paul Manafort.

While CNN, MSNBC and most of the national mainstream media dedicated wall-to-wall coverage, the story was curiously downplayed on Fox, with the channel’s opinions hosts suggesting the news was a nothingburger.

“The difference on a night like Tuesday: Fox’s pro-Trump shows acknowledge the news, yes, but they don’t give it the serious wall-to-wall coverage that it merits,” CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter scolded in his evening newsletter. “Instead, the shows move on… to safer subjects like confederate statues and Dem ‘extremism’ and the VMAs.”

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Fox News dedicated their considerable resources to covering Cristhian Rivera, an undocumented immigrant accused of killing Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts — a story they broke.

A friend of James Comey is speaking out about the relationship between the former FBI director and President Donald Trump — including how Comey felt about a now-infamous hug shared between the two of them after the 2016 election.

Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog and a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, published a revealing essay on his site on Thursday based on former conversations he had with Comey.

Among his many revelations was the claim that Comey was “disgusted” when President Trump hugged him at a reception for Inauguration Day law enforcement officers and first responders...

Tune in alert for "Need to Know," the 30-minute PBS weekly news magazine, as this week's anchor of will be Jeff Greenfield. The program airs January 25th on PBS at 8:30 p.m. (check local listings). Episode #304 On the second of two inauguration specials examining the advocacy group "Common Good's" proposals to end bureaucratic gridlock and get the United States moving forward, "Need to Know" anchor Jeff Greenfield explores how malpractice lawsuits contribute to rising healthcare costs. Correspondent William Brangham travels to Denmark, where medical disputes are settled by experts without ever going to court.