‘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…
Playlist 5-8-15
Got there a little late because of The Replacements show, still ringing in my ears, and so ringing in the start of the show. Then a bunch of songs to…
Review: The Replacements in D.C.
Friday's show by The Replacements in Washington was kind of a miracle -- for fans who thought the band would never tour again, of course. But also in terms of…
Friday TV: Fonda, Tomlin Team Again
Thirty five years after "9 to 5," Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin join forces in the online comedy "Grace and Frankie" (Netflix, streaming) about a pair of women whose husbands…