Capital Radio 2-23-26: From Jesse to Donna
The words of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in introducing the 1972 WattStax Festival in Los Angeles, in which he proclaimed “I am somebody!” continue to reverberate today. We play them…
Monday: ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’
Tracy Morgan plays a disgraced former NFL star hoping to rehabilitate his image in the snappy new comedy “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” (NBC, 8 p.m.). He chooses…
Sunday TV: Olympics Bid Farewell For Now
The 2026 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony (NBC, 2:30 p.m.) caps two weeks of action. While the opening ceremony was in four locations, this one will be in one: historic Verona…
Saturday: Emma Thompson in ‘Dead of Winter’
Emma Thompson plays a grief-stricken loner who stops to ask directions near a Minnesota lake and finds herself among a murderous couple in a remote cabin in the thriller “Dead…
Friday TV: The Intergalactic Sound of Sun Ra
If he didn’t invent Afro-Futurism, he certainly provided the soundtrack. Now the out-of-the-world jazz musician, composer and poet gets his story told on “Sun Ra: Do the Impossible,” making its…
Thursday TV: HBO’s ‘Murder in Glitterball City’
The two-part true crime documentary “Murder in Glitterball City” (HBO, 8 p.m.) concerns the death of a hairdresser and drag performer found buried in the basement of a home in…
Wednesday TV: Date Goes Wrong in ’56 Days’
A young couple meets in Boston and there’s grisly murder that happens in “56 Days” (Prime Video, streaming). The new eight-episode series adapts Catherine Ryan Howard’s bestseller and transfers it…
Tuesday TV: JFK Jr. Special as Cross-Promotion
Here’s something to help remind you that FX (and ABC and Hulu) are all under the Disney umbrella: A new “news” special “John and Carolyn: Love, Beauty and Loss” (ABC,…
Capital Radio 2-16-26: Presidents, Year of Horse
There are Monday Holidays, and then there are days when so many events need to be jammed together, it's like a month of Mondays. Today’s Capital Radio noted President’s Day,…
Monday TV: Tyra Banks’ ‘Top Model’ Nightmare
The new three-part documentary series “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” (Netflix, streaming) has Tyra Banks herself recalling the rise of the reality TV competition with pride, but sticking…