Also On Monday: ‘Star Crossed,’ ‘Freedom’
A decade after they crash landed from another planet for survival purposes, the aliens still aren't treated too well on Earth, forced to live in detention. Now some of the…
‘Downton Abbey’ Departures: One Permanent
A big episode of "Downton Abbey" Sunday had a couple of the season's big storylines coming to an end, no end to Mary's suitors, a new direction for Edith, and love…
Sunday TV: British Film Awards, All Stars
Get a two week jump on the Oscars with a British accent with The 2014 EE British Academy Film Awards (BBC America, 8 p.m.). Many of the same films were…
Saturday TV: New Use for Old ’48 Hours’
After 35 years or so on TV, "48 Hours" (CBS, 9 p.m.) specialized in true crime stories. Tonight, it expands -- into two hours -- in order to accommodate a…
Friday TV: 50 Years of the National Theatre
The 50th anniversary of the National Theatre of Great Britain is marked with a compilation of their best stuff from over the years on "Great Performances" (PBS, 9 p.m., check…
Those Dumb Winter Storm Names
One of the lesser annoyances about this winter's multiple storms is their confusing nomenclature. It's a regular winter storm most places, but on the Weather Channel it's Pax. Other local…
Thursday TV: Tattoos and the Skeleton
"Tattoo Titans" (CMT, 11 p.m.) is the latest and maybe third tattoo artist competition, organized as if it's "Project Runway" or the current incarnation, "Project Runway: Under the Gunn" (Lifetime,…
Comedy Genius Sid Caesar, 1922-2014
One of the last public appearances for Sid Caesar, the great TV clown who died Wednesday at 91, came at one of the stranger sessions of the TV Critics Association…
Wednesday TV: Building the Duomo
Architects still wonder how Filippo Brunelleschi did it, building the world's large masonry dome for Florence's famous Basilica de Santa Maria del Fiore in the Renaissance. The Duomo, as it…
Remembering Shirley Temple, 1928-2014
It was just a few days ago that I saw, on rail of some internet site fraught with clickbait, the familiar picture in pincurls, young Shirley Temple, accompanying a headline…