Tuesday TV: An Urgent Earth Day Report
The best way to mark Earth Day probably is to leave the set off altogether. But since that's not your choice, may I suggest a concise and eye-opening history of…
Monday TV: Sweet Soul of Muscle Shoals
Filmmaker Greg "Freddy" Camalier makes the case that it is the location, alongside the Tennessee River in Northwest Alabama that provided the magic to make the perfect setting for a…
New Turns for ‘Nurse Jackie’
Because of all the tough situations in "Nurse Jackie," chief of which is the title character's addiction to pills and drugs, people sometimes forget it's a comedy until its cast…
Sunday TV: In This ‘Salem,’ Witches Are Real
The Chicago "super station" tries its hand at original programming with "Salem" (WGN, 10 p.m.), an overheated return to witch hunting days with the caveat that the witches this time…
Saturday TV: Billy Crystal’s Life on Stage
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com Billy Crystal's first taste of being a comedian was making his parents laugh. There's nothing unique about that. But, as he reminds us in his one…
Playlist 4-18-14
There was a request to keep things down this Good Friday evening -- not that it takes a lot of noise to make a radio show. But I took the…
Friday TV: ‘The Writers’ Room’ Returns
Have they already run out of good TV shows to talk about on "The Writers' Room" (Sundance, 9 p.m.)? After a first season that began with "Breaking Bad" and went…
Thursday TV: Finales for ‘Scandal,’ Three Others
Season finales seem to come earlier and earlier, thanks to the tendency of shows to run straight through with fewer reruns and summmer shows beginning earlier in the summer. Four…
Wednesday TV: Getting to Know the Mule Deer
A new "Nature" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) checks back in on Jim Hutto the naturalist who raised a bunch of wild turkeys in one popular episode. This time…
Ushering Out Two Singers on ‘The Voice’
Usher was the final judge Tuesday to pare down his team for the Top 12 live performances next week on the "Voice." Picking three of his five member team to…