Monday TV: Fighting for the Right to Die
The documentary “Life After” looks at the story of Elizabeth Bouvia, who sought for the legal right to die in 1983. Her legal battles, fate, and implications for today are…
Sunday TV: Here Comes a New Robin Hood
Erroll Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery have all played the heroic outlaw of Sherwood Forest. Newcomer Jack Patten is the latest actor to play “Robin…
Saturday: World Series Game 7 (and Football)
Postseason baseball moves to November with the deciding Game 7 of a memorable World Series, tied 3-3, with Dodgers at Toronto (Fox, 8 p.m.). Coverage starts at 7 p.m. It's…
Friday TV: ‘The White House Effect’ is Scary, Too
Nothing on Halloween is scarier than the growing Climate Crisis, which became a partisan issue during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, according to the new documentary “The White House…
Thursday TV: Eva Victor’s ‘Sorry, Baby’
Eva Victor wrote, directed and stars in “Sorry, Baby” (HBO, 8 p.m.), the independent film about a literature professor struggling with depression that won the screenwriting award at Sundance. It…
Wednesday TV: ‘Down Cemetery Road’ on Apple
Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson star in the British import “Down Cemetery Road” (Apple TV, streaming) a series based on the 2003 novel by Mick Herron about a woman who…
Tuesday TV: Nightmare Time for Animals, Too
Life isn’t just scary for humans. The creatures of documentary series “Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle” (Netflix, streaming) — a young opossum, a recently-hatched iguana and a jumping…
Monday TV: I Wonder Who’s Kissinger Now?
International power broker or war criminal? The jury is still out on the role of Henry Kissinger, who served under six presidents. A new two-part, three hour documentary on “American…
Sunday TV: Creepy Clown Gets Own Series
The world of “It,” populated by the creepy sewer-dwelling clown Pennywise, based on the Stephen King’s book, expands its world to series TV tonight with the prequel “IT: Welcome to…
Saturday TV: ‘Weapons’ in Time for Halloween
Zach Cregger’s supernatural horror film “Weapons” (HBO, 8 p.m.) with Julia Garner (above), Amy Madigan and Josh Brolin, finds a good time to make its premium cable debut. The Saturday…