Monday TV: New ‘People of Earth’
Wyatt Cenac’s stint at “The Daily Show” seems now to have been quite brief, though it ended up being several years. He’s back in a project that suits him, the…
Sunday TV: Leonardo Saves the Planet
Childhood might be a little weird if you have a Hieronymus Bosch painting over the crib. But Leonardo DiCaprio says the print of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” sent him…
Saturday TV: Iggy Pop and Gilly Too
Iggy Pop, subject of a new Jim Jarmusch documentary on the Stooges, is also featured on a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings), backed by members…
Ballet: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Cinderella’
Before ballet stages everywhere become crowded with nutcrackers and their gala holiday accouterments, there is still time for other sturdy folk tales of enchantment set to Russian music and popular…
Playlist 10-28-16
The death of Bobby Vee Monday at 73 meant the show started with selections from his 1963 Buddy Holly tribute album, whose death started his own career. And the death…
Friday TV: Bill Murray Salute, ‘Girls Revolt’
David Letterman, Jane Curtin, Jimmy Kimmel, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Shffer, Brian Doyle Murray, Roy Blount Jr., Sigourney Weaver and Emma Stone show up to help honor the actor and comedian…
Thursday TV: ‘Great Outdoors,’ ‘Genius’
CBS has already been pushing the Millennials vs. Gen. X thing a little hard this season on “Survivor,” laying the stereotypes pretty heavily on the arbitrary demographic groupings. Now it…
Wednesday TV: Last Season of ‘Rectify’
Since it began, “Rectify” (Sundance, 10 p.m.) has been one of the best shows on television, quietly forging a path in telling the story of a man released from solitary…
Tuesday TV: The World Series Begins
The distance between the two cities is just 345 miles and one Great Lake. But the more telling showdown in the World Series is the amount of years it’s been…
Monday TV: Strangely Familiar New Sitcom
CBS is adamant at creating a sitcom slate that can be easily mistaken for the continuation of old shows. So if “Kevin Can Wait” (CBS, 8 p.m.) is just a…