Daily Archives: May 5, 2012

On TV Tonight: Beasties in the Hall

How did the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction (HBO, 9 p.m.)end up on premium cable? In recent years it was run on Fuse or VH1 after several years of not being seen at all. It probably had something to do with HBO stepping in to help run the big 25th anniversary hall […]

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Also on Saturday: Eddie Izzard in New ‘Treasure Island’

Eddie Izzard shaves his head (but keeps the mascara) to play Long John Silver in a new production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” (Syfy, 7 p.m.) with a cast that includes Elijah Wood and Donald Sutherland as Flint. The story of treasure hunting and mutiny on the Hispanola is getting a new twist, the […]

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