‘Louie’ Pursues Skinnier Hungarian Woman
A week ago, Louie C.K. told ”The Tonight Show” that the storyline from that night’s episode would continue for six more episodes of “Louie.” I was probably like a lot…
Monday TV: The Variety Show Returns
It reads like "Saturday Night Live" on Monday prime time, but "The Maya Rudolph Show" (NBC, 10 p.m.) sounds like a throwback to classic TV entertainments, with music and skits,…
Sunday TV: Undead on Billboard Awards
For an awards show that has always had the least surprising results -- the best-selling recordings of the year, listed week-in and week-out, The 2014 Billboard Music Awards (ABC, 8…
Samberg’s ‘SNL’ Finale Reunion
After 39 seasons, "Saturday Night Live" finales can either serve as graduations, as have been the last couple of years, or reunions as they certainly were this week when Andy…
Saturday TV: Minnie Driver in Lifetime Movie
Let's just say Minnie Driver doesn't get challenged too much in her current sitcom "About a Boy." She'll get to flex some dramatic muscle, presumably, as the mother trying to…
Playlist 5-16-14
Prevented from doing a show last week because the transmitter was down, and prevented from playing vinyl for more than a month because the turntables were on the fritz, I…
New Superhero for The CW
Just three new dramas and one comedy are on the fall schedule for The CW, which will switch nights for some of its returning shows and brings a second superhero…
Friday TV: George Plimpton’s Literary Life
Born into privilege, privately educated, speaking in patrician town, George Plimpton could have been a high society horror. Instead, he was something of a literary gadfly and player in New…
Thursday TV: Finales and a Magician
Finales continue to dominate network schedules, but the big event tonight is the final episode of Sandra Oh, Dr. Cristina Yang on "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 9 p.m.) -- all amid…
More Crimefighting in CBS Fall Schedule
A third NCIS in a new locale and Thursday night NFL dominate the 2014-15 schedule for CBS, unveiled Wednesay at the network upfronts. Eight new series were announced for the…