Tuesday TV: All-Star Game and All That
Ciara sings the National Anthem for tonight's All-Star Game (Fox, 7 p.m.) in Cincinnati. Josh Turner sings "God Bless America," which is not the National Anthem. Baseball's biggest names will all…
Monday TV: Depression in Animated Form
The theater's Elizabeth Swados addresses her own malady in the animated film "My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It" (HBO, 9 p.m.) that also features the voice…
Sunday TV: ‘The Strain’ Slinks Back
Overlooked in the onslaught of good TV that debuted last summer, "The Strain" (FX, 10 p.m.) is back with another season of Guillermo del Toro's deliciously creepy work. By now…
Saturday TV: Samberg’s Tennis Hell
The weekend of the Wimbledon finals is also the setting for the mockumentary "7 Days in Hell" (HBO, 10 p.m.), starring Andy Samberg and Kit Harington as extravagant players in…
Friday TV: Less Famous Than His Dad Now
Brody Jenner has been in reality longer than anybody else in his famous extended family -- 10 years if you go back to "Princes of Malibu." Then all those years…
Thursday TV: New ‘Dates’; ‘Rectify’ Returns
Networks scramble to put on programming in the summer, usually grabbing something from Canada, or a weird reality show from the U.S. Sometimes they import something that's accidentally kind of…
Wednesday: Hannibal Buress Told You So
The premiere of the new series "Why? With Hannibal Buress" (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.) may seem timed to allow its star a victory lap. Burress is the one who blew…
Tuesday TV: Technicolor at 100
It's the 100th anniversary of the patent granted to the developers of Technicolor, the most widely used color process for Hollywood films from 1933 to 1952. The centenary is marked…
When Business Writes History
I expected another benign array of American dates, names and artifacts when the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History opened its new Innovation Wing last week. Zippier display cases, sure. A…
Monday TV: ‘Tough Love’ on Public TV
Of the quarter million children removed from their families last year and put in foster care, the reason for 79 percent of the cases was not abuse, but neglect. A…