Remembering Dick Clark
Like Ryan Seacrest, who began the “American Idol” telecast Wednesday saluting his New Year’s Rockin’ Eve boss, Dick Clark, who died at 82 Wednesday, was a conduit to pop culture.…
Wednesday TV: Ships Sink, ‘Revenge’ Resurfaces
Months after the capsizing of the Costa Concordia and a full century after the Titanic, a new “Nova” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) attempts to explain why ships sink.…
Judges Flex Power, Eliminating Three
Those thrown off “The Voice” and “Dancing with the Stars” this week got to the end of their run thanks to low votes from fans and final decisions from judges.…
Scanning the British Tube
You may have the mistaken impression that British TV is all “Downton Abbey” and “The Office” – the kind of consistency in excellence we could only hope to replicate in…
Tuesday TV: Could ‘Glee’ Kill Robin Gibb?
The poor guy is in a coma, all it could take is one small thing to send him beyond this life. Like "Glee" (Fox, 8 p.m.) doing a salute to…
Monday TV: ‘Top Gear’ in High Gear
Following a two hour version of "Top Gear" (BBC America, 9 p.m.), in which the team travels to the former Empire holding, India, the show's Richard Hammond, goes off to…
Lena Dunham and the New ‘It’ ‘Girls’
It’s easy to think of Lena Dunham’s new series “Girls” (HBO, 10:30 p.m.) as a kind of anti-“Sex and the City,” a reality check for young women who imagined fashion…
Also on Sunday: New Cops, ‘Drood’
They’re playing up the fact that Robert De Niro produces the new rookie cop series “NYC 22” (CBS, 10 p.m.). But the more telling credit goes to its writer and…
Second Letter from London
The old and new are crashing in on eachother in London these days. It’s the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth and all the squalid, dank details of the Victorian…
Saturday TV: Titanic Goes Down Once More
The 100th anniversary of the most famous shipping disaster means that both the blockbuster made 15 years ago has been refitted into 3D and shipped back to theaters. On TV,…