Wednesday TV: Guys Choice Awards, ‘Roughness’
Do guys really need their own awards show? They get one anyway in the 2013 Guys Choice Awards (Spike 9 p.m.), where categories include Most Dangerous Man, Best Lincoln, The Original…
‘Killing’ Attire
A friend writes: "'The Killing' seems re-invigorated. Lead actress once again puts on the same sweater from the last 2 whole seasons as she's drawn back into the new investigation,…
Tuesday TV: Getting ‘Twisted’ After ‘Liars’
ABC Family is throwing out some interesting premises anyway. Pregnant teens, a couple of moms as foster parents and now a kid who killed his aunt as a child now…
A Different John on ‘Daily Show’
The swooping opening credits still said "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the announcer said it too. And in the computer crawl that is part of the set, Jon Stewart's…
Monday TV: The Pussy Riot Story
Russia never really got performance art. Nor did they ever understand punk music. So when the radical young women in an artists' collective called Pussy Riot pulled on their day-glo…
C.J.’s Revenge on ‘The Veep’
It'd be tempting to refer to Sunday's episode of "The Veep" as the one where Allison Janney returns to the West Wing. But the vice president's residence isn't in the White…
Menace Surfaces on ‘The Killing’
Compared to the beautifully photographed, rain-soaked blues and greys of greater Seattle that give “The Killing” its brooding texture, what remains of the sickly pink biohazard bags of 17 decomposing…
Sunday TV: Tonys, ‘Game of Thrones’ End
Neil Patrick Harris' best role for CBS is not as the ever-smarmy Barney in "How I Met Your Mother" but as apparent host-for-life of Broadway's big awards night. Harris returns…
Saturday TV: Two New Series on Syfy
Syfy isn't showing its B-movie monster movies like "Octoshark" any more on Saturday nights, but they are importing series that appear to be just as bad. "Primeval: New World" (Syfy,…
Friday TV: Noir and Runyon on TCM
Writers of the great film noir classics get the spotlight Fridays this month on Turner Classic Movies. It begins, of course, with Damon Runyon and "The Maltese Falcon" (8 p.m.).…