Category Archives: What’s On TV

Erin Lee Carr, daughter of late New York Times correspondent, turns in an intriguing two part documentary on the celebrated case of a Massachusetts teen charged in the connection with the death of her boyfriend, who, texted him encouraging his suicide. Titled “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter” (HBO, 8 p.m.), [...]

The 50th anniversary of the moon landing is July 20, but it will take nearly two weeks to get all the specials in. “Chasing the Moon” is a three-part documentary on “American Experience” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) that steps back to look at all the steps to reach the seemingly-impossible goal. “The Armstrong [...]

They’ve already stylishly dissected the decades from the 60s to the 2000s, now Tom Hanks and his production team of Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog take a much broader look at “The Movies” (CNN, 9 p.m.) in a six-part series that covers the last half century. That means parsing through flicks we know quite well [...]

It’s an Algiers double feature on Turner Classic Movies with Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 “The Battle of Algiers” (8 p.m.). Ana DuVernay introduces the influential film about the Algiers overthrow of the occupying French Foreign Legion in 1957, shot on the streets it took place. It’s paired with the 1938 crime film “Algiers” (10:15 p.m.) with [...]

Cindy Busby stars as a manic new stepmom in the made-for-TV “The Wrong Stepmother” (Lifetime Movies, 8 p.m.), which also features Vivica A. Fox, Corin Nemec, Tracy Nelson, Calli Taylor and McKinley Blehm. It’s the first of four consecutive Friday night movies featuring and produced by Fox. Coming up this month are: “The Wrong Boy [...]

The little kids on “Stranger Things” (Netflix, streaming) are now gangly teens in season three of the popular sci-fi series and they’re hanging around a lot in the mall. The 1980s setting certainly invites the Spielberg touches, though the new season is supposedly more influenced by “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Stranger yet is the [...]

“The Romanoffs” were already the subject of Matthew Weiner’s streaming series, now they are the subject of the more historical re-dramatization “The Last Czars” (Netflix, streaming), a British series filmed in Lithuania about the fall of the Russian family that stars Ben Cartwright and Susanna Herbert (pictured) but also includes a number of historian talking [...]

Amid the excesses planned for July Fourth celebrations is the culinary competitions televised on ESPN each year — the hot dog eating contest, a speed eating spectacle sure to cause fireworks in the stomach. To prepare this year, there is a documentary about the lives of professional competitive eaters on “30 for 30: The Good, [...]

The agreeable comedy “Divorce” (HBO, 10 p.m.) returns for a new season, with a wedding and birth imminent. It accompanies the second episode of the intriguing British limited series “Years and Years” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Three women seek justice for a Filipina transgender woman murdered by a U.S. Marine in the documentary “Call Her Ganda,” [...]

Russell Crowe is unrecognizable stuffed into a fat suit to portray the menacing Roger Ailes in the new seven-part series “The Loudest Voice” (Showtime, 10 p.m.), based on the Gabriel Sherman book of the same name. It begins with Ailes being courted to run a new network for Rupert Murdoch (Simon McBurney) and his decision to [...]