Wednesday TV: Halloween and Simon Too
Ostentatious displays of costumes usually marks Halloween for the daytime shows, always looking to outdo each other and their own previous seasons with crazier outfits. In the wake of the…
Top Dancer Goes Home on ‘Stars’
If you want to start being paranoid about election results a week early, how about this: The person with the highest average score on “Dancing with the Stars” was eliminated…
Tuesday TV: Ellen Gets Twain Award, Tracking Big Money in Politics
Recorded at the Kennedy Center last week before weather became an issue, “Ellen DeGeneres: The Mark Twain Prize” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) gathered a number of stars and…
Joking Through the Storm
They were those kind of shows that would stand out among thousands in late night. Both “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Late Show with Jimmy Fallon” chose to go…
Report from Hurricane Sandy’s Path
It was the second hurricane aiming toward D.C. in just over a year since we lived here, so we sort of knew the drill. Though there wasn’t an effort toward…
Monday TV: Episcopal Iconoclast and ‘Storm of Century’ in Fiction and Fact
The struggles of the first openly gay person elected bishop in Christianity is profiled in a new film on “Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings). “Love Free or…
‘Homeland’ Game Changer
If “Homeland” were a Hollywood movie instead of TV’s best drama, it would have ended shortly after Carrie Mathison was vindicated in her long-held suspicion of Sgt. Nicholas Brody as…
Sunday TV: ‘American Scream’ and More
It’s a big time of year, as you might imagine, for Chiller, the network that just has scary fare year-round. Tonight, they present their first original documentary, “The American Scream”…
Saturday TV: D.L. Hughley and the Zombies
Instead of the usual standup special, “D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List” (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.), is a filmed special about the endangerment of black people, shot as if it's an…
Friday TV: ‘The Munsters’ Redux
Networks that sour on TV pilots they’ve dumped a lot of money into are usually satisfied with burying them very deeply in vaults, pretending they never green lit them to…