Author Archives: Roger Catlin

Antoine Fuqua’s three hour documentary of the champ, “What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali” (HBO, 8 p.m.) presenting his long career through recordings of his voice – much of it in rhyme. “The Flash” (CW, 8 p.m.) faces Reverse Flash on the season five finale. On the fifth season finale of “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS, 10 [...]

Gabrielle Union revives her character from the “Bad Boys” franchise into a new action cop series in which she’s paired with Jessica Alba. “L.A.’s Finest” (Spectrum Originals, streaming), available only for Spectrum cable or internet subscribers. Being “The Bachelorette” (ABC, 8 p.m.) means she doesn’t have to be called Hannah B. any more. But former [...]

The election is over on “Veep” (HBO, 10:52 p.m.) and with it, the splendidly profane, fast-moving and incisive political satire ends as well after seven seasons, and we are left with our own farce. A big confrontation is brewing, meanwhile, on “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.), which is still producing 80 minute episodes. Major [...]

When Jamie Morton discovered his father wrote some erotic novels earlier in his life, he picked up a copy and read it to his friends, who made snide comments as it went along. That became a podcast, which became a stage show, which was filmed at the Roundhouse in London to become the comedy special [...]

The new four-part documentary series “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) takes a look back at the history of the influential hip hop group, on the even of the anniversary of their debut album “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers).” Filmmaker Sacha Jenkins talks to the nine surviving members and their origins in [...]

His post-“Daily Show” show gig, posing as a far right provocateur in “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper” didn’t work out (some figures are beyond parody). So the sardonic host is back with a more sincere effort, “Klepper” (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.) in which he embeds himself with various groups to find out more about them, [...]

Satan has been around a long time. So maybe it wasn’t a surprise when “Lucifer” (Netflix, streaming) was picked up by a popular streaming service after it was canceled on Fox a year ago, after three seasons. Tom Ellis revives his role as the Devil turned club owner and police consultant. And there’s some business [...]