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…
Monday TV: ‘Somebody Knows Something’
Kara Robinson Chamberlain, a former law enforcement officer and crime survivor, hosts the new true crime documentary series “Somebody Knows Something” (Freeform, 9 p.m.) that investigates various cold cases and…
Sunday TV: The Billionaires’ Space Race
The wresting of space exploration into the hands of billionaires is the subject of the special “Eclipsing Power: Bezos and the New Space Race” (CNN, 8 p.m.). The “Game of…
Saturday TV: Steve McQueen Revs Up
It’s Steve McQueen all day on Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars with “Never So Few” (6 a.m.), “The Getaway” (8:15 a.m.), “Nevada Smith” (10:30 a.m.), “The Magnificent Seven”…
Friday TV: Ricky Gervais’ Risible ‘Alley Cats’
If you’re old enough, the new animated series “Ricky Gervais’ Alley Cats” (Netflix, streaming) might look at first like the old “Top Cat.” Except this time, the gang of felines…
Thursday TV: Inside Exotic Animal Trafficking
From the director of “Tiger King” comes a new five-part documentary series “Monsters of God” (HBO, 9 p.m.), about the people who illegally traffic exotic animals. Too early for preseason…
Capital Radio 8-3-26: The Songs of August
We began the Aug. 3 edition with the music of saxophone ace Plas Johnson, who recently died at 94 and whose work was on hundreds of recordings, none more famous…
Capital Radio 7-27-26: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The smoke from Canadian wildfires were almost cleared by June 27. But not from the Capital Radio playlist! So there were songs about wildfires, smoke signals and all manner of…
Wednesday TV: ‘Ted Lasso’ Finds His Way Back
It seemed to wrap up agreeably after at the end of the third season three years ago. But anything as popular as “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV, streaming) was bound to…