Saturday TV: A Most Perverse Polygamist
Lifetime has been the origins of some of the creepiest TV movies of the year. First the two "Flowers in the Attic" films, and now this, "Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs"…
Friday TV: ‘Girl Meets World’ This Time
Conceptually, the new "Girl Meets World" (Disney, 9:45 p.m.) fills a nostalgic longing. Fred Savage who played the kid on "Boy Meets World" has married Danielle Fishel's Topanga and they…
Thursday TV: ‘NY Med’ Returns, Noon Cup
Amid the excesses and fantasy of the many TV hospital dramas, "NY Med" (ABC, 10 p.m.) comes more out of the documentary tradition, where actual stories can be much more…
Half Get Into ‘Big Brother’ House
The first day of "Big Brother" is like the first day of school: So many people to meet, so many candy colored hallways to explore! And Julie Chen is there…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Taxi Brooklyn’
One of the more unusual space-fillers this summer is "Taxi Brooklyn" (NBC, 10 p.m.), an adaptation of Luc Bresson's "Taxi" film pairs a cop with a cabbie to fight crime.…
‘Freedom Summer’ Relived Tonight
Just as the Freedom Riders Civil Rights effort in 1961 was followed by the 50th anniversary "Freedom Riders" documentary by Stanley Nelson, so has the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to…
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…