Saturday TV: Billy Crystal’s Life on Stage
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com Billy Crystal's first taste of being a comedian was making his parents laugh. There's nothing unique about that. But, as he reminds us in his one…
Playlist 4-18-14
There was a request to keep things down this Good Friday evening -- not that it takes a lot of noise to make a radio show. But I took the…
Friday TV: ‘The Writers’ Room’ Returns
Have they already run out of good TV shows to talk about on "The Writers' Room" (Sundance, 9 p.m.)? After a first season that began with "Breaking Bad" and went…
Thursday TV: Finales for ‘Scandal,’ Three Others
Season finales seem to come earlier and earlier, thanks to the tendency of shows to run straight through with fewer reruns and summmer shows beginning earlier in the summer. Four…
Wednesday TV: Getting to Know the Mule Deer
A new "Nature" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) checks back in on Jim Hutto the naturalist who raised a bunch of wild turkeys in one popular episode. This time…
Ushering Out Two Singers on ‘The Voice’
Usher was the final judge Tuesday to pare down his team for the Top 12 live performances next week on the "Voice." Picking three of his five member team to…
Don’t Dare Miss ‘Fargo,’ the Series
What if you could live inside your favorite movie, or simply have it go on longer -- maybe five times as long. That's the case with "Fargo" (FX, 10 p.m.),the…
Also on Tuesday: ‘The Address,’ ‘Pioneers’
"The Address" (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) might begin like other Ken Burns films, with black and white images and that same old recording of "The Battle Hymn of…
Monday TV: ‘Trials of Muhammad Ali’
The always fascinating saga of the former Cassius Clay as he became outspoken heavyweight champion, Muslim convert, conscientious objector and prisoner gets a fine retelling in Bill Siegel's film "The…
‘Mad Men:’ New Season, Old Ennui
You can take Don Draper out of the ad agency, but you can't take the ad man out of Don. So while he's been on a forced leave of absence…