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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
What is the nature of greed that it makes the desperate not try to go out and get jobs, but to travel thousands of miles to dig for gold? There…
Idling on a beach, I sometimes wonder why the rings on a shell are so much like the rings of Saturn. The connectedness of earth to space and especially to…
There are so many Halloween episodes this week, you may feel out of candy by the time trick or treat day comes. They also may serve to make you feel…
The World Series (Fox, 7:30 p.m.) begins in San Francisco, still giddy from its Game 7 NLCS win Monday. The Giants have home advantage for Game 1 of the fall…
It was fifty years ago this week that the world was on the brink in a way it had never been before – a superpower confrontation that threatened global annihilation…