Saturday TV: Memorial Day Moviethon
Except for the inappropriate car and mattress sale ads, you'd be hard pressed to guess it's Memorial Day on most of TV. But a 72-hour, 34 film marathon saluting servicemen…
Friday TV: Cinema Down Under
The month-long Friday night focus on Australian cinema on Turner Classic Movies continues with "The Year of Living Dangerously" (TCM, 8 p.m.) with Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt -- not…
Thursday TV: Here Come the Summer Shows
With May sweeps and most of the finales over, network television can get back to the business of inserting shows not quite right for their fall or spring schedules. "Gang…
Finale Winners, with Reservations
The television season ended Wenesday with two big finales. In the end "American Idol" remained the ratings winner over "Survivor," but both shows concluded with off-putting winners. On "Idol," it…
Wednesday TV: Finale Battle: ‘Idol’ vs. ‘Survivor’
With the show now out of the Top 10, there certainly isn't the national attention over the finalists of "American Idol" (Fox, 8 p.m.) tonight. The two left standing, Meatloaf…
Usher for the Win in ‘Voice’ Finale
Usher broke into the club of winning coaches Tuesday when his finalist Josh Kaufman, the white soul man from Indianapolis, won season six of "The Voice." Baby-faced country hulk Jake…
Tuesday TV: Assembling the Dumb for Dating
Coming a night after the season start of "The Bachelorette," the candidates on "I Wanna Marry Harry" (Fox, 9 p.m.) are meant to be dimmer bulbs, easily tricked into thinking…
‘Louie’ Pursues Skinnier Hungarian Woman
A week ago, Louie C.K. told ”The Tonight Show” that the storyline from that night’s episode would continue for six more episodes of “Louie.” I was probably like a lot…
Monday TV: The Variety Show Returns
It reads like "Saturday Night Live" on Monday prime time, but "The Maya Rudolph Show" (NBC, 10 p.m.) sounds like a throwback to classic TV entertainments, with music and skits,…
Sunday TV: Undead on Billboard Awards
For an awards show that has always had the least surprising results -- the best-selling recordings of the year, listed week-in and week-out, The 2014 Billboard Music Awards (ABC, 8…