Wednesday TV: Odd Squad, Odder Turkeys
New for kids this morning is a new public television educational show with bit of DNA from the old "Electric Company," "Odd Squad" (PBS, check local listings) featuring a talented…
Bob Dylan at DAR Constitution Hall
Two blocks from the White House Tuesday, where a Ferguson protest was raging on, Bob Dylan sat between the columns at the DAR Constitution Hall and asked one more time…
Thanks, Giving Doesn’t Work on ‘Survivor’
No good deed goes unpunished on “Survivor: San Juan del Sur.” Boston fireman Jeremy Collins may have defied the show’s protocol by joining Natalie Anderson in declining a luxury reward…
Tuesday TV: Back Into the Wild
The real story about Christopher McCandless, whose solo hike into the Alaska wilderness in 1992 was grippingly told in Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" and the subsequent movie by…
Monday TV: Drinking and Doing TV
With food shows reaching their saturation point -- especially this week -- it seems natural that there be more shows about drinking. The Esquire network has so far led the…
Sunday TV: Jay Leno’s Back and Feted
Jay Leno returns to TV in a big way as recipient of "The Mark Twain Prize" (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings). His "Tonight" show successor Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler,…
Saturday TV: ‘Hello Ladies’ Wraps
Stephen Merchant was on the ground floor of cringe comedy, co-creating "The Office" and various other projects with Ricky Gervais including "Extras" and "Life's Too Short." But working on his…
Friday TV: Reconstructing Dylan Songs
This fall's flurry about songs Bob Dylan composed 47 years ago in upstate New York has resulted not only in a five-CD package of 138 recovered recordings, but a mysterious…
Thursday TV: Is College Worth It?
With student loan debt reaching $1 trillion and nearly $239 billion given in loans last year alone, the documentary "Ivory Tower" (CNN, 9 and 11 p.m.) asks once more whether…
Wednesday TV: Landing on Comet Story
Rosetta may have gone silent, but the specials about the spacecraft that managed to land on a comet last week gets a special, "To Catch a Comet" (PBS, 10 p.m.,…