Wednesday TV: New Spy Yarn ‘The Game’
It seems like the number of Cold War spy stories, particularly those toward the end of the conflict, are proliferating on TV "The Game" (BBC America, 10 p.m.) is set…
Dale Was ‘Hot Mess’ Before Eviction
Had he managed to last one more tribal, Dale Wentworth might have made it to the merge tonight on "Survivor: San Juan del Sur." “That’s the most frustrating thing,” he…
Tuesday TV: Actual Voting and Its Results
They've been telling you the results for weeks now (instead of informing voters on who they might choose), so it's natural that Midterm Election Coverage begins two hours before any…
Monday TV: Enchanting New Storybook
There's a reason the woods was the location for the darkest of Grimm's tales. The thought of children getting lost in them can still be scary and those deep-set traditions…
The Remarkable ‘Olive Kitteridge’
Frances McDormand is an inveterate reader. So when a friend handed her a copy of Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge" about six years ago, she devoured it. "Loved it," she said.…
Also on Sunday: Walking a Wire in Chicago
Sometimes TV can be as basic as a football game, a long-distance police chase or a guy walking on a wire. When Nik Wallenda walked across the Niagara Falls for…
Chris Rock’s Return to ‘SNL’ (Prince 2)
The last time Chris Rock hosted "Saturday Night Live," I'm convinced, it made him into an A-level comic. An extended monologue that was part of his peerless 1996 "Bring the…
Saturday TV: Finding the Disappeared
"The Disappeared," a new documentary on "Fault Lines" (Al Jazeera America, 7 p.m.) examines the alarming rise of kidnappings in Mexico, with more than 22,000 people since the government's war…
Playlist 10-31-14
A four hour show on Halloween was sort of a test: Could I play three hours of holiday music? Oh yes. We learned a lot of things: There were certainly…
Friday TV: Tingling Holloween Horror
It is All Hallow's Eve, so in between responding to your door, there is a lot of scary stuff on TV. And there's horror all day on Turner Classic Movies…