Thursday TV: Another New Cooking Contest
Premiering two hours before its title would indicate, "Midnight Feast" (FYI, 10 p.m.) has D.C. chef Spike Mendelsohn invading Chelsea Market to gather ingredients for a romantic gourmet dish in…
Wednesday TV: Another Road to Knowledge
In the new series "How We Got to Now" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), author Steven Johnson brings his interesting book to the screen, telling the story of civilization…
Rocker Says He Couldn’t Blend In on ‘Survivor’
Former major league baseball pitcher John Rocker may have been raked over the coals over poorly chosen remarks made to a reporter in 1999 followed by several other incidents. But…
Two Sides to ‘The Affair’
It's a dream cast that fills the alluring new series "The Affair" (Showtime, 10 p.m.). Dominic West ("The Wire," "The Hour") plays a writer and teacher, happily married to Maura…
Tuesday TV: Meeting ‘Marry Me’
In the abundance of new sitcoms on network TV this fall, one has the talent and pedigree to breeze through the material, even if the premise of "Marry Me" (NBC,…
Monday TV: Bubbly ‘Jane the Virgin’
The final example in how diversity is going to save the broadcast network season comes with the new "Jane the Virgin" (The CW, 9 p.m.), an adaptation of a Venezuelan…
Also on Sunday: The Zombies’ Return
The last time we saw Rick and company, they were shut up in a train car at a supposed safe-haven called Terminus, whose true purpose was only too obvious. In…
Saturday TV: Rushing and Racing
Ron Howard's racing movie "Rush" (HBO, 8 p.m.), about the 1976 rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, makes its debut…
Playlist 10-10-14
I wasn't scheduled to go on tonight, but nobody else was coming in, and I had a lot I wanted to play. Some Paul Revere and the Raiders, because of…
Friday TV: Fresh Sitcom Face ‘Cristela’
While much of the new sitcom seems utterly conventional, the key to the new "Cristela" (ABC, 8:30 p.m.) is its star, comic Cristela Alonzo, portraying a law grad living at…