Tuesday TV: How the Electorate Has Changed
A new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listing) explores how voters may have changed their views since the 2020 election. Similarly, it’s “Countdown to Election Night” (CNN, 8 p.m.)…
Monday TV: Freeing Leonard Peltier
A new generation of activists fights to “Free Leonard Peltier” (Netflix, streaming), the American Indian Movement leader who spent decades in prison for a conviction many disputed. Convicted of murdering…
Sunday TV: A Murder at the Pet Cemetery
“The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story” (HBO, 9 p.m.) is a new three-part true crime series about the proprietor of a pet cemetery outside New Orleans who disappears and…
Saturday TV: ‘The Housemaid’ Comes to HBO
Paul Feig’s thriller “The Housemaid” (HBO, 8 p.m.), with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, makes its premium cable debut, as does the drama “I Was a Stranger” (Showtime, 9 p.m.). …
Friday TV: A Profile of Itzhak Perlman on PBS
A new series spotlighting the most influential names in classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries, “Great Musicians of Our Time” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) begins with…
Thursday: Josh Hartnett in a Sea Monster Saga
Josh Hartnett stars in a new six-episode series about a sea monster, “Below” (Netflix, streaming) that also stars Charlie Heaton and Macenzie Davis. From Michelle and Robert King, who gave…
Wednesday TV: Trying to Create Soothsayers
In the comic mystery “Small Prophets” (Apple TV, streaming), Pearce Quigley plays a bearded old man who tries to find whatever happened to his wife who disappeared by creating creatures…
Tuesday TV: Now an ‘NCIS’ in Your Town, Too
“NCIS: New York” (CBS, 9 p.m.), the seventh spinoff of the franchise, makes its premiere in the Big Apple. But it has some familiar faces: L.L. Cool J, who was…
Capital Radio 10-5-28: Going Down to Liverpool
Started the show with some echoes of the big Power to the People festival held near here Saturday. Then a few songs addressing my recent trip to Liverpool and England.…
Monday TV: Reconciling a Hometown and a Dad
A young filmmaker chronicles the lingering racial segregation in his hometown at the same time he’s trying to reconcile with an ailing father who happens to be his political opposite,…