Few New Names Among Emmy Noms
If this is the golden age of TV, then the Emmy nominations were crowded with repeat nods, making occasional space for only a few things — HBO’s “True Detective” and…
Channeling Dylan Thomas, Not Dying
I would like to think that ace British TV writer Andrew Davies as a child caught Dylan Thomas on one of his speaking tours, where in his day he was…
‘Naked and Afraid’ Keeps Pixilators Busy
Discovery executives presiding over the start of day two of press tour seemed to think it was heroics and drama that made "Naked and Afraid" have the biggest premiere of…
Wednesday TV: ‘Bridge’ Back, New ‘Extant’
One of the great new recent shows to emerge in the spurt of quality cable TV is "The Bridge" (FX, 10 p.m.), a remake of a Danish series into a…
Talking War and Peace with McCaffrey
I've come to expect unusual encounters at press tour, but I wasn't even in my seat long before someone came walking up to my seat with retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey,…
TV Press Tour Begins, Virtually
Even as television content spills way past the confines of the home set -- online, on laptops, mobile devices, gaming devices, and on your head via Google Glasses, the TV…
Tuesday TV: On New FYI, Love is Blind
You might be wondering what happened to the BIO channel. Well, the A&E Networks, which operates it and Lifetime and History, have changed it to the FYI, whose first new…
Monday TV: A Different Way of Doing Things
Filmmaker Niko von Glasow, himself born with severely shortened arms, covers some determined competitors for the paralympics who make a great case for the term "differently abled,"in his engaging film…
Sunday TV: Back to the ’90s
Having done a kind of sloppy version on the decade before, "The '80s: The Decade That Made Us" (National Geographic, 2 p.m., playing all six of its episodes), the network…
Saturday TV: The 101st Tour de France
It's the European post-holiday sporting event that is part endurance race, part travelogue. The Tour de France 2014 (NBC Sports, 8 a.m.; TV5Monde, 2:30 p.m.) is more de Britain this…