Sunday: A Different ’60 Minutes’ for Season 59
Television’s most watched news program “60 Minutes” (CBS, 7:30 p.m.) returns for its 59th season as possibly a very different show under its new management. That's a lot of unfamiliar…
Saturday TV: Carlile Makes ACL Hall of Fame
“Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings), which began its 52nd season last week, honors Brandi Carlile at its 12th annual Hall of Fame Honors. She performs with…
Friday: Nobody’s Forgotten 9/11 After 25 Years
If nobody saw the event coming a quarter century ago, everyone could see the 25th anniversary broadcast schedule coming It includes “9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan” (ABC,…
Thursday TV: ‘Call My Agent! The Movie’
The four-season French show biz comedy series ended five years ago with the closing of the talent agency where it was set. Now Camille Cottin, who plays an agent turned…
Wednesday TV: NFL Season Kicks Off in Seattle
The NFL season begins with a rematch of last season’s Super Bowl teams, New England at Seattle (NBC, 8:20 p.m.). A kickoff special is set for 7 p.m. Twenty-five years ago…
Tuesday TV: The Story of Mr. T, or Some of It
The former Laurence Tureaud turned his bouncer gig into a movie career, appearing as a tough extra until he was discovered for “Rocky III.” Then there was no stopping the…
Monday TV: McElwee Behind the Camera Again
The droll and influential documentarian Ross McElwee, whose 1985 classic “Sherman’s March” was less about Civil War history than it was his own failure at romance, was always one to…
Sunday: Manville Back in ‘Marble Hall Murders’
Lesley Manville returns as the book editor and mystery solver Susan Ryland in the new six-part serapes “Marble Hall Murders” (PBS, 9 p.m.), in which she finds herself a suspect…
Saturday TV: College Football Unleashed
The first full Saturday of the college football onslaught begins with competing prime time broadcasts Clemson at LSU (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and Western Michigan at Michigan (NBC, 7:30 p.m.). It…
Friday TV: Reynolds, Branagh in ‘Mayday’
Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh star in the Cold War drama “Mayday” (Apple TV, streaming) in which a captured Navy pilot befriends an ex-KGB agent to help him survive. Social…