Other Tuesday TV: The Other Effect of 9/11
The ongoing themes for ten-year 9/11 salutes on TV all this week are sorrow and somber remembrances. Which is what makes tonight’s “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) stand…
Monday TV: When ‘Real Housewives’ Get Real
Husbands never had it good on the “Real Housewives” series. They were seen as cads, or dunces, unreliable or plain dull. Even if the guy is famous, such as Kelsey…
Other Monday TV: Three 9/11 Specials, A Kardashian Finale
Sometimes you can’t tell the passage of time until you see how quickly kids have grown in, for example, the decade since 9/11. More than 3,000 children lost a parent…
The Shambles of the MDA Telethon
For as much as he did for the cause of Muscular Dystrophy prevention, and telethons in general, you’d think Jerry Lewis would have been treated a little better than he…
Sunday TV: It’s Telethon Day; Where’s Jerry?
Jerry’s Kids are left without a father figure this weekend as the 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon (WGN, 6 p.m.) plays it short and sweet tonight, wrapping up at…
Also On Sunday: ‘Good Wife’ Primer, ‘Curb’ with Bill Buckner
How do you get new audiences to your well-established, critically acclaimed show? Run a special that explains what’s been happening until now. Presumably, “The Good Wife: A New Beginning” (CBS,…
At the Tar Sands Protest
When the two week sit-in at the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring oil from “tar sands” in Canada across the plains to Texas, came…
Baseball Project Rock Without Buck
The poster gave the impression of a terrific triple bill: The Baseball Project, The Minus 5 and Steve Wynn. But the show at the modestly-sized Iota in Arlington was the…
Friday TV: ‘Man, Woman, Wild’
Let’s face it, on some nights, nothing is on TV – especially on a Friday before the big Labor Day Weekend. Nonetheless, let us consider some options: A husband and…
Thursday TV: September Brings Flood of 9/11 Programming
The floodgate has been opened already, but the fact that it turns September today will only increase the frequency and intensity of all the upcoming 9/11 tributes and films. Two…