Category Archives: What’s On TV

It was Laura Ingram’s bigoted dismissal of LeBron James’s political views that provides the title of his documentary “Shut Up and Dribble” (Showtime, 9 p.m.), a three-part documentary about athletes who have stood up for what they believe in and why it’s important. College football swamps prime time with UCLA at Oregon (Fox, 7:30 p.m.), [...]

The new “Homecoming” (Amazon, streaming) is a welcome yarn from Sam Esmail, creator of “Mr. Robot,” and starring Julia Roberts as an operative in a secretive government-sanctioned facility that deals with soldiers exiting combat. Based on a podcast of the same name, it dwells in the paranoid world of Big Brother control, while never revealing [...]

A two week salute to pioneering first females in film — who all worked more than a century ago — begins on Turner Classic Movies with three films by French-born director Alice Guy-Blaché, above. They are the 1913  “A House Divided” (8 p.m.), the 1916 “The Ocean Waif” (8:25 p.m.) and the 1912 “Falling Leaves” [...]

Halloween is prime time for introducing scary new series, such as the new “Tell Me a Story” (CBS AllAccess, streaming), an anthology series base on a Mexican show that takes off fairy tales and remakes them into twisted psychological thrillers. Set in contemporary New York, it’s from Kevin Williamson, who was behind the “Scream” movies. [...]

If part one of “The Facebook Dilemma,” the excellent report on “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) didn’t make you cancel your account Monday, tonight’s concluding part two will appall you in how the site has allowed itself to be used to alter the political scene in Ukraine years before it influenced the 2016 [...]

While her mother remains a boogiewoman in Republican midterm ads, the filmmaker Aleandra Pelosi goes cross country to talk with voters in particularly conservative sectors about gun rights, jobs, immigration, climate change, abortion and race in places. For her latest documentary “Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi” (HBO, 8 p.m.), she travels to visit [...]

“Ray Donovan” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) begins its sixth season in a new locale: New York, where there’s a lot of work for a fixer. But first Liev Schreiber’s character has to be pulled out of the East River and established in Staten Island. Soon enough, though, his past seeps through even as Micky plots against [...]

It might as well be its own holiday. First, Tom Hanks stars in “The Post” (HBO, 8 p.m.), making its premium cable debut, in which he gave his Oscar-nominated performance as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, alongside the similarly nominated Meryl Streep and a packed cast that includes Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley [...]

It’s been fun to watch Kieran Shipka grow up on TV, first on “Mad Men” and then on oddball things like “Flowers in the Attic.” Now she stars in her own series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (Netflix, streaming), another adaptation of the Archie character that is a departure from the 90s sitcom version with [...]

Meant to be a sassy series based on the 80s cult movie, “Heathers” (Paramount, 10 p.m.) was all set to go last spring until Parkland shootings made a jokey series about school violence suddenly seem inappropriate. It’s no more appropriate now, but the network hopes to burn off its episodes in the name of Halloween [...]