Thursday TV: Weird ‘Wayward Pines’
Playing a secret service agent in search of a couple of missing colleagues (one with whom he was having an affair) Matt Dillon finds himself in a bucolic, odd mountain…
CBS Upfronts: ‘Supergirl,’ Last ‘CSI’
CBS jumps into the superhero game and schedules the last episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" quite early in the season on the new 2015-16 schedule announced Wednesday at the…
Wednesday TV: Growing a Backbone
Ah, vertebrates! Let's hear it for them/us. Premier natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough traces the history of Earth's creatures with backbones that began in the sea and continued on…
‘Muppets’ Among 10 New Shows for ABC
ABC announced 10 new shows at its upfronts Tuesday in New York, including a couple that sounded a little familiar. “The Muppets” is an update of that series in part…
Tuesday TV: ‘American Idol’ Finale Begins
Once it was a cultural event, but nowadays, the finale for "American Idol" (Fox, 8 p.m.) has finalists whose names I couldn't even tell you until I looked it up:…
Monday TV: The Cannibal Cop Who Wasn’t
It was a couple of years ago when the tabloids were full of headlines about a Cannibal Cop, so much so that you might have believed there was such a…
Fox Upfronts: Eight New Shows, Last ‘Idol’
Fox unveiled a new fall schedule with four new comedies, four new dramas Monday as part of the network’s annual upfront rituals in New York. It also announced the final…
NBC Upfronts: More Than a Dozen New Shows
NBC kicked off the springtime ritual of advertising upfront, with a Sunday event that the first of the network unveiling of their 2015-16 prime time plans. According to its announcement,…
Sunday TV: Finales, or Nearing the Ends
We're in the home stretch of big show finales. And especially now that we know the fate of most existing shows, whether they've been canceled or will be continued, there…
Saturday TV: Nixon in Stockholm
The Lifetime movie is getting an upgrade. Not that the plot has changed much. Tonight's "Stockholm, Pennsylvania" (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) concerns a girl kidnapped at 4 who is finally freed…