Tuesday TV: When Animals Revolt
The premise for many shows in the summer are the kinds of things that would have made for good single episodes of "The Twilight Zone" -- A town under a…
Monday TV: Housing Boomtown on ‘POV’
The consequences of being an oil boom town, where plentiful jobs have outstripped the means to support the new workers. In "The Overnighters," a Sundance Award-winning documentary by Jesse Moss…
Showrunner on ‘Nurse Jackie’s End
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) is one of those shows that tended to be taken for granted, underrated, but will be sorely missed once the final episode of the seventh…
Also on Sunday: More Robots in ‘Humans’
Not to be confused with the how from earlier this week about humans named “Mr. Robot,” the new “Humans” (AMC, 9 p.m.) is about robots. Not sexbots (which are the…
Saturday TV: John Rowland Goes Country
Jesse Metcalfe, who played John Tucker as well as John Rowland, the lawnmower guy romancing Eva Longoria on "Desperate Housewives," turns country artist in the TV movie "A Country Wedding"…
Playlist 6-26-15
Well, nobody else was scheduled to be on tonight, so I came in early to play a whole lot of Firesign Theatre, which never got a lot of airplay. Its…
Friday TV: Great Music, plus Rodman
Her music has always had a rich timelessness, but seems particularly attuned today. So it's a great time for Liz Garbus' documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?" (Netflix, streaming) about the…
Thursday TV: Fox Goes ‘Boom!’
A quiz show with a dumb name "Boom!" (Fox, 8 p.m.) doesn't just give prizes, it penalizes people with wrong answers in the manner of ejector seats like MTV's old…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Mr. Robot’ in Town
There may be a similarity between basic cable dramas, but the new "Mr. Robot" (USA, 10 p.m.) stands out. It's much darker and cinematic and not about a robot. At…
Tuesday TV: Sending Up the Past
"Another Period" (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.), Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome's lavishly costumed and decorated period piece depicting a high-living household of dim bulbs in Newport, R.I., at the turn…