Tuesday TV: Molly Parker in Fox’s New ‘Doc’
It’s always good to see Molly Parker (“Deadwood”) in a series. Here she plays “Doc” (Fox, 9 p.m.), chief of internal medicine at a Minneapolis hospital who, in tonight’s first…
Capital Radio 1-6-25: Remembering 2024 Losses
Aside from a number of birthdays — of Syd Barrett, Sandy Denny, Doris Troy, Nino Tempo, Van McCoy, Earl Scruggs and Malcolm Young of AC/DC — the first Capital Radio…
Monday TV: When Art Became Digital Tokens
The rise and fall of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, that shook up the digital art world is captured in Nicholas Bruckman’s documentary “Minted,” making its debut on “Independent Lens” (PBS,…
Sunday TV: Nikki Glaser Hosts ‘Golden Globes’
Now that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been disbanded, can we take the Golden Globes (CBS, 8 p.m.) be taken seriously? Oh probably not. But it still might be…
Saturday: ‘Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President’
The 2020 documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” (CNN, 8 p.m.), about his interacitons with the Allman Brothers Band, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, gets a timely replay. The remains…
Friday TV: Wallace and Gromit vs. Technology
Nick Park brings back his charming characters with the second full-length feature “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix, streaming) that finds the stop-motion inventor and his dog adjusting to…
Thursday TV: Colin Firth in ‘Lockerbie’
Colin Firth stars in the five-episode limited series “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth” (Peacock, streaming) about the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 that killed 270…
Wednesday TV: New York Rockin’ Day, Too
They talk about New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, but how about New Year’s Rockin’ Day? The 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (ABC, 8 p.m.) that first ran…
Tuesday TV: Overdoing It on New Year’s Eve
New Year's Eve overflows with special programming, on just about every broadcast network. The old-timer among them is “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (ABC, 8 and…
Movie Review: ‘King Saud,’ Worst of Year?
Writing at the end of the year, I can safely say I won’t see a worse film this year than “King Saud,” a clumsy, blood-soaked stumble through world problems through…