Sunday TV: ‘The Night Manager’ is Back Again
You’ll be forgiven for forgetting everything about “The Night Manager” (Prime Video, streaming). It’s been nearly a decade since the first season of the John le Carre adaptation starring Tom…
Saturday: Redford, Hackman in ‘Downhill Racer’
There’s little snow on the slopes this season but there are a couple of ski movies tonight on Turner Classic Movies tonight. It begins with Michael Ritchie’s “Downhill Racer” (8…
Friday TV: Andrew Lincoln Back in ‘Coldwater’
Andrew Lincoln of “The Walking Dead” fame returns to TV in the six-part limited series “Coldwater” (Paramount+, streaming) about a man who moves his family to rural Scotland after an…
Thursday TV: New Netflix Drama ‘His & Hers’
It’s good to see Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson in a new drama. In “His & Hers” (Netflix, streaming), she’s a former Atlanta anchor who wants to get back in…
Wednesday: Springsteen Sings ‘Nebraska’ Alone
When he was preparing his “Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition” boxed set in November, Bruce Springsteen booked himself at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, N.J., and played the entirety…
Tuesday TV: Hiding the Effects of Hiroshima
The truth of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs dropped 80 years ago was obscured by government censorship, propaganda and co-opting of the press, according to the…
Capital Radio 1-5-26: Songs of the Invasion
The weekend’s imperialist invasion of Venezuela by the United States colored a lot of the show, with songs from The Clash and Jesse Wells to Elvis Costello and Neil Young,…
Monday TV: Late Night Hosts Reawaken
The late night hosts are back for the new year after a couple of weeks of holiday time off, and they’ll have a lot to talk about.“The Late Show with…
Sunday TV: Josh Charles is the New ‘Doc Martin’
Josh Charles stars as a brusque, high strung Boston doctor who abruptly relocates to a small seaside town Maine in the new medical series “Best Medicine” (Fox, 8 p.m.), Abigail…
Saturday TV: When UFOs Did D.C. Destruction
Back in the 1950s, when major government buildings were wantonly destroyed, it was usually due to UFOs in sci-fi films rather than the reality presidential whim. Relive that era tonight…