Also on Tuesday: ‘Tyrant,’ ‘Motor City Masters’
"Tyrant" (FX, 10 p.m.) begins, in many ways, like its central character -- brooding, joyless, tense. Adam Rayner plays a Pasadena pediatrician and family man who is also son of a Middle…
Monday TV: Battle for Marriage Equality
When Proposition 8 unexpectedly passed in California, denying same-sex couples the right to marriage that they had enjoyed for a couple of years, it was not only the basis of…
Actual Fire on ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
The process of building an innovative new personal computer isn’t the easiest thing to dramatize, so the writers behind the series "Halt and Catch Fire" have staging their own crises…
Sunday TV: Another New Singing Show
Just when things were quieting dow, here comes the latest singing competition. The gimmick behind "Rising Star" (ABC, 10 p.m.) is a kind of app-driven crowd appreciation that results in…
Saturday TV: Funnier Phony Royals
"I Wanna Marry Harry" may have been canceled and yanked off the air already this summer, but it's time for another couple of British phonies to come around and fool…
Playlist 6-20-14
A few deaths to mark, including jazz singer Jimmy Scott, DJ Casey Kasem and lyricist Gerry Goffin (represented by songs he co-wrote performed by the Beatles, Animals, Monkees, Byrds, Chiffons…
Friday TV: A Mesmerizing Dancer and Spirit
If tonight's new "American Masters" (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) only showed old black and white clips of the exquisite daner Tanaquil Le Clercq, it would be worth watching.…
Thursday TV: Some Critics’ Choices
Every time the Critics Choice Television Awards (The CW, 8 p.m.) is broadcast, I'm wondering: Who are these people? After all the TV Critics Association have been throwing their own…
Theatre Review: Cold Day at the Beach
The role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is supposed to be one of the prized roles for women of a certain age. “One of those parts,” Dame Peggy…
Wednesday TV: France’s Early Comic Ace
Rene Clair, France's first great director of comedy, whose work inspired Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, is saluted on Turner Classic Movies tonight with with five of his films. It…