Friday TV: A Girl Wants a Bicycle
The simple story of a 10 year girl who wants to win a prize in order to buy a bike is more complicated when she's in Saudi Arabia and the…
Thursday TV: Recalling the Civil Rights Act
Seems worthwhile to dedicate an hour of prime time to mark a landmark anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act “CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights” (Smithsonian,…
A Trove of New ‘Basement Tapes’ Songs
Nearly half a century after someone dashed them away, like most folks do in their basement, a few boxes of unrecorded handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan from the “Basement Tapes”…
Wednesday TV: Music Returns to VH1
Once it was the mainstay of the network whose name stood for Video Hits One, but music programming is so rare now on VH1, it's worth noting the premiere of…
‘Downton’ Lowdown for Season Five
"Downton Abbey" stars appear annually at the TV Critics Association summer press tour. PBS is still giddy about its first hit so can't help continually promoting the imported English soap.…
Tuesday TV: More Network Chefs
In an age of "Top Chef," "Iron Chef," "Iron Chef America" (Food, 8 p.m.) "MasterChef" and "MasterChef Junior," her's another entry into the idea of cooking as a competition. "Food…
Monday TV: Manufacturing Bogus Terrorists
The boom in homeland security that followed 9/11 had several casualties, one of them justice, especially when it came to encouraging and then rounding up supposed home grown terrorists. It…
Details on ‘Fargo’ Season Two
The cast will be gone, the story will be different, and so will the time period. But the second season of "Fargo," its writer Noah Hawley said Monday, will again…
A ‘Gotham’ for All Times
Batman has come a long way since the primary-colored pop art of the 1966 “Batman” to the dark brooding Batman sequel “Gotham” that begins with some anticipation on Fox this…
Sunday TV: More Problems in the Future
Summer's the time for sci-fi sagas, apparently. Even on Lifetime, where the new series "The Lottery" (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) follows the premise of a near future in 2025 that has…