Friday TV: Fixing Businesses
It's weird that Friday night -- a day many people spend celebrating the end of the workweek -- has become the night dedicated to starting and running businesses Start up…
Wednesday TV: Bad ‘Mixology,’ New Seasons for ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Americans’
A couple of so-so but harmless network sitcoms have already premiered this week. Now comes a truly hateful one. "Mixology" (ABC, 9:30 p.m.) is a high-concept comedy about 10 people…
Saluting Women Who Bolt ‘The Bachelor’
Why should men be the only one to decide who comes and goes on “The Bachelor”? Surely the women who are assembled for the show have their own feelings whether…
Tuesday TV: Steve Zahn and the Vatican
Always good to see Steve Zahn, but more as Davis on "Treme" than in his new role, as Clark Edwards in "Mind Games" (ABC, 10 p.m.), who with his brother…
Seth Meyers Brightens ‘Late Night’
On his first "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Monday, and with only a fraction of the hype that greeted "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" the week before, the former…
Ho-Hum Hometown Visits on ‘The Bachelor’
In many ways, the hometown visits make for each season's most boring episode of "The Bachelor." The surviving women all pretty much say the same thing: "I'm so happy to…
Monday TV: BET Honors, New ‘Late Night’
Some giants are saluted at the BET Honors 2014 (BET, 9 p.m.) taped earlier this month in D.C. Wayne Brady hosts the gathering where Aretha Franklin and the late Nelson…
‘Downton’ Finale More a Sidetrip
First things first about the season four finale of "Downton Abbey": No, you didn't miss a few episodes. The "Christmas Special" episodes which cap these seasons air weeks after the…
Culturally Clueless Ceremony Coverage
If the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi was about the history of Russia, then the closing ceremonies Sunday were about its culture. And NBC proved it knew…
‘Amazing Race All Stars’ Sheds Worst Team
There is this consolation to the quick elimination of the "Twinnies" on the premiere of "Amazing Race All-Stars" Sunday. You don't have to hear them yell at one another any…