Monday TV: ‘113 Weddings’ and a Dome
For a documentary filmmaker who began making wedding videos as a way to keep afloat, it seems natural (and economical!) that Doug Block would reuse some of that footage in…
‘Californication’ Ends with Whimper
Having generally worn out its welcome several seasons earlier, "Californication" ended its seven season run Sunday with the kind of whimper Hank Moody himself would disdain. The series about a…
Starting Tonight: Grim World of ‘Leftovers’
There has probably never been a pilot episode for a new series as glum, anguished and depressing as that of tonight's "The Leftovers" (HBO, 10 p.m.) the new series in…
Also on Sunday: Old Queens on ‘Vicious’
What might be flat material in the hands of others is turned to gold when Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are cast as an old gay couple on the imported…
Saturday TV: A Most Perverse Polygamist
Lifetime has been the origins of some of the creepiest TV movies of the year. First the two "Flowers in the Attic" films, and now this, "Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs"…
Friday TV: ‘Girl Meets World’ This Time
Conceptually, the new "Girl Meets World" (Disney, 9:45 p.m.) fills a nostalgic longing. Fred Savage who played the kid on "Boy Meets World" has married Danielle Fishel's Topanga and they…
Thursday TV: ‘NY Med’ Returns, Noon Cup
Amid the excesses and fantasy of the many TV hospital dramas, "NY Med" (ABC, 10 p.m.) comes more out of the documentary tradition, where actual stories can be much more…
Half Get Into ‘Big Brother’ House
The first day of "Big Brother" is like the first day of school: So many people to meet, so many candy colored hallways to explore! And Julie Chen is there…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Taxi Brooklyn’
One of the more unusual space-fillers this summer is "Taxi Brooklyn" (NBC, 10 p.m.), an adaptation of Luc Bresson's "Taxi" film pairs a cop with a cabbie to fight crime.…
‘Freedom Summer’ Relived Tonight
Just as the Freedom Riders Civil Rights effort in 1961 was followed by the 50th anniversary "Freedom Riders" documentary by Stanley Nelson, so has the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to…