Category Archives: General

The NBA Playoffs begins its months-long campaign today with a number of first round games: San Antonio at Golden State (ABC, 3 p.m.), Washington at Toronto (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.), Miami at Philadelphia (ESPN, 8 p.m.) and New Orleans at Portland (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.). The Stanley Cup Playoffs qualify for Saturday Night prime time hockey with [...]

Tina Fey puts a little more juice in her “Great News” (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) by joining the cast as a tough new executive and just like that the series moves from cute to genuinely funny as it takes on the changing tone of cable news to include panels of people that include “Obama deniers.” The [...]

“Greenleaf” (OWN, 10 p.m.), the Oprah Winfrey produced soap about a big church family in Memphis,   in which she sometimes appears as a  bartender, returns for a second season. But when it comes to sophomore seasons, I’m much more interested in the return of the bayou bedlam on “Hap and Leonard” (Sundance, 10 p.m.), the underrated [...]

Never mind that #OscarsSoWhite is slightly less so this year. But before that all gets on display Sunday, here’s the 2017 American Black Film Honors (BET, Centric, 8 p.m.) taped last weekend from Los Angeles. Regina Hall hosts the event, which will present special awards to Denzel Washington, Issa Rae, Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard and [...]

If only to hear President Obama join Chance the Rapper on “Jingle Bells,” it may be worth tuning into the “National Christmas Tree Lighting” (Hallmark, 7 p.m.). The annual event is rarely also on TV but last week’s ceremony, hosted by Eva Longoria also featured James Taylor, the Lumineers, Yolanda Adams. Plus there might be [...]

Days after the death of Fidel Castro comes two previously scheduled documentaries on the future of Cuba. In Platz Lopez Garmendia’s “Cuba, Fatherland or Death” (HBO, 8 p.m.), executive produced by Julian Schnabel, artists and activists discuss what’s coming for the island nation. It’s followed by “Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolution” (HBO, 9 p.m.) [...]

He’s not moving his hips quite so much any more. His dark hair has long since gone to silver. But time has done little to take the pipes of Tom Jones, who at a remarkable 76 is doing far more than just reciting the hits that made him a star in the ’60s, but reinterpreting [...]

The first of what will be four specials this month on the death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado nearly 20 years ago starts with “The Killing of JonBenet: The Truth Uncovered” (A&E, 9 p.m.) which includes a 1998 interview with JonBenet’s older brother and a more recent interview with her father. “The Comedy Central [...]

A most eclectic pre-holiday set tonight started with songs of work from all corners of popular music, from George Jones and Tennessee Ernie Ford to The Vogues, The Kinks, The Clash, James Brown to Charles Bradley. It ended with Springsteen — fitting since he played a set longer than this show last night at Nationals [...]

This summer’s best television viewing has come with “The Night Of” (HBO, 9 p.m.) the terrific adaptation of a British series written by Peter Moffat, “Criminal Justice,” that came into its own with a very particular look at the city of New York and its criminal justice system through the case of a Muslim-American arrested [...]