Wednesday TV: Listening to the Lion
Four years in the making, the limited series “Lion” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) is a nature documentary from director Jon Favreau that follows the life of an East African lion…
Tuesday TV: Latest New Conflict, ‘Cocktail Wars’
Two-fifths of NSYNC — Lance Bass and Joey Fatone reunite, not to sing, but to co-host a new competition between mixologists. “Cocktail Wars” (E!, 10 p.m.). They’ll judge the work…
Monday TV: ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX, FXX, 10 p.m.), the longest running live-action comedy on television, returns for its mind-bending 18th (and possibly final?) season. The first of tonight’s first…
Sunday TV: Another Shot at ‘Green Lantern’
The adaptation of DC comics and the Green Lantern in particular has been difficult in the past. A new attempt, “Lanterns” (HBO, 9 p.m.) stars Kyle Chandler as the Lantern…
Saturday TV: Eleven from Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood is featured all day on Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars in “Never a Dull Moment” (6 a.m.), “The Girl He Left Behind” (7:45 a.m.), “Bombers B-52”…
Friday: Sunny Sandler in ‘Don’t Say Good Luck’
The Adam Sandler nepotism continues at Netflix where his daughter Sunny Sandler stars as an aspiring high school thespian whose mother takes ill in the coming-of-age film “Don’t Say Good…
Thursday TV: ‘My Brilliant Career,’ The Series
“My Brilliant Career” (Netflix, streaming), he Australian novel by Miles Franklin about an aspiring writer in rural town in the early 20th century, gets a six-part TV adaptation. It stars…
Wednesday TV: The Charles Manson Case Again
Joe Berlinger’s series of 20th century mass murders that routinely include recordings of the perpetrator, from Ted Bundy to Son of Sam, wraps up with “Conversations with a Killer: The…
Tuesday TV: Watching Soccer’s ‘Special One’
The life and career of the one of the top soccer managers, the former player José Mourinho, whose nickname is “The Special One,” is profiled in a new documentary from…
Capital Radio 8-10-26: What Leo Fender Wrought
For the first live show in two weeks, there were a lot of recent passings of musicians to note on Capital Radio, starting with Glen Hansard and including Jeff Conolly…