Author Archives: Roger Catlin

When travel began to be shut down due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, religious landmarks were among the first to close. Thus a new series like “Earth’s Sacred Wonders” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) may be the only way for now to visit such places as Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Jerusalem and the Shaolin [...]

A fragile and emotional time is probably the perfect atmosphere to introduce the new drama “Council of Dads” (NBC, 10 p.m.) in which a group of friends take over parenting for a father of five after he learns he has cancer. The cast includes Tom Everett Scott, Clive Standen, Sarah Wayne Callies and Michael O’Neill. [...]

The documentary “The Rescue List,” making its premiere tonight on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) follows a team working to rehabilitate two boys in Ghana who were trafficked into slavery into fishermen on Lake Volta. Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink direct. Robert Finster plays a young “Freud” (Netflix, streaming) who is trying to [...]

He’s kind of a king of Sunday night TV, on shows like “Homeland” and “Billions” and even before that on the “Masterpiece” series “The Forsythe Saga” and HBO’s “Band of Brothers.” Now he’s just himself, hosting the new series recounting famous intelligence operations from the FBI, CIA, KGB and MI6, “Spy Wars with Damian Lewis” [...]

For a Saturday night when perhaps a record number of Americans will be home, there isn’t quite a lot of new or recommendable programs on. More bad planning! After marrying off representative brides from each state last week, a new season starts for “Say Yes to the Dress – Atlanta” (TLC. 8 p.m.), a city [...]

It would seem that streaming services are stepping to keep up with the demand of a nation being asked to stay home. But then again, it’s just Friday, when they regularly release a load of new titles. Octavia Spencer stars as a entrepreneur who built an African American haircare company that made her the first [...]

The insidious networks of misinformation who snake their conspiracy theories into mainstream news media are deftly explored in the chilling new documentary “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News” (HBO 9 p.m.), which begins with that weird belief that the military were training a secret operation in Texas during the Obama administration and [...]