Monday TV: The Football Championship
Seems a little late in the season for this, but 11 days into the new year, here’s the College Football Playoff title game, a battle of the South with Alabama…
Remembering David Bowie, 1947-2016
David Bowie has been such a vital figure in the culture for so long, it was impossible for a moment to believe that he had actually died Sunday at 69…
Sunday TV: Gervais’ Golden Globes
It’s funny to consider how recently The Golden Globe Awards (NBC, 8 p.m.) were so thoroughly disregarded that it wasn’t even televised for a few years. Now it’s all glitz…
ABC Family Becoming Freeform
The channel that has been known as ABC Family over the past 15 years (and was a couple of other names before that) will change its name once more on…
Saturday TV: Hip Hop on HBO and PBS
HBO takes a foray into the hip hop world with its original “J. Cole Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming” (HBO, 10 p.m.), which both covers the life of the rapper and…
Anthony Hopkins Talks ‘The Dresser’
If you want to add a little prestige to your network, you could do no worse than hire Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen as leads in the first filmed…
Friday TV: Music at the White House
They’ve had some pretty great concerts in the East Room during the Obama administration. But tonight’s “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of American Creativity” (PBS, 9 p.m.,…
How Mick and Marty Made ‘Vinyl’
The unusual new HBO series “Vinyl” deserved an unusual panel at press tour Thursday and certainly got it. One one side of the ballroom at the Pasadena hotel was the…
Thursday TV: Jenny on the Block TV
It's 1999 all over again, with Jennifer Lopez on every hour of prime time tonight over two separate networks. Maybe someone will show her in a new video too. Primarily,…
Harvey Weinstein Meets Tolstoy Again
Prolific film producer Harvey Weinstein was among the TV critics Wednesday at press tour to help promote the upcoming four night, eight-hour mini-series adaptation of Tolstoy’s epic “War and Peace”…