Diana Nyad Sinks on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ Sean Avery Also Elbowed Out
She may have been the first person to swim from Florida to Cuba in shark-invested seas, but Diana Nyad couldn't navigate "Dancing with the Stars" for more than one week,…
Monday TV: Big View of Women
TV has been a little heavy with the overweight lately, with voyeuristic shows lately from "The BIggest Loser" to "My 600 lb Life" to the returning summer "Extreme Weight Loss."…
A ‘Girls’ Finale on Opening Night
Just as another esteemed HBO comedy, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," ended its fourth season at a Broadway opening night, so did the third season end of "Girls" Sunday. Adam's debut in a…
Sunday TV: House Building as Competition
Bringing back that Sunday night tradition of "Extreme Home Makeover" is the slight variation "American Dream Builders" (NBC, 8 p.m.). Instead of one family's home being improved in a whirlwind…
Saturday TV: Leguizamo’s Life Story Again
Bursting with energy and talent, John Leguizamo is also quite under-employed. Why else would his stage triumphs all be autobiographical one-man shows? His latest, "Ghetto Klown" (HBO, 10 p.m.), is…
Playlist 3-21-14
A four hour Friday show starts with two performers whose birthdays are today, Solomon Burke and Viv Stanshall. But some recent deaths are also noted: Ron Ashton of The Stooges,…
Friday TV: Blondie Turning Gray
It boasts one of the shakier rock history theories -- that the band were doomed as punks and had to alienate their base to become pop sensations -- but "Blondie's…
The ‘Mad Men’ Anti-Spoiler Spoiler
So happy, as a fan and critic, to receive a big package Thursday with the first episode of the final season of "Mad Men," premiering on AMC April 13 at…
Thursday TV: Let the Madness Begin
March Madness begins in earnest today, with each of the 16 games in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament available in full on some network, with the bigger games on…
The (New) Worst Person on TV
After putting in full days in trying to inform and interpret Wall Street for investors and viewers, CNBC turns to prime time programming that shows the ugly side of this…