Friday TV: Netflix’ ‘Narcos’ Breaks Out
Brazilian actor Wagner Moura returns to his role as Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar with the second season of the arresting series “Narcos” (Netflix, streaming), which begins with his dramatic…
Bruce Travels a Different River in D.C.
They’re technically still calling it “The River” tour, but Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band has long since dropped the concept. Instead of playing all 20 songs from the…
Thursday TV: Christina’s New ‘Tracks’
Christina Aguilera makes a guest appearance on the premiere of a show she is producing, “Tracks” (Spike, 10:30 p.m.), a kind of “name that tune” competition in which contestants try…
Wednesday TV: Africa on Closed Circuit
Drones, time-lapse and remote cameras are used to capture the action in “Africa’s Wild Havens” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.), starting with the animals under a sausage tree alongside Zambia’s Luangwa River,…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
An interview with country star Miranda Lambert about a hard year and the Hag, for The Washington Post A look at a Library of Congress exhibit on the early work…
Tuesday TV: Death to ‘Pretty Little Liars’
Somebody is supposed to die on tonight’s summer finale of “Pretty Little Liars” (Freeform, 8 p.m.), which comes on the heels of the announcement Monday that the show will end…
Rick Perry, Lochte on ‘Dancing with Stars’
“Dancing with the Stars” is increasingly the rehabilitation camp for personalities we’d rather see fade away. The 23rd season of the show will include former governor and presidential candidate Rick…
Monday TV: ‘Fashion Police’ Stage a Raid
Sunday’s “MTV Video Music Awards” (MTV, 8 p.m.), rerunning tonight, seemed more about fashion than about music, so it’s fitting that the “Fashion Police” (E!, 8 p.m.) reconvenes to discuss…
This is ‘The Night Of’ Big HBO Finale
This summer’s best television viewing has come with “The Night Of” (HBO, 9 p.m.) the terrific adaptation of a British series written by Peter Moffat, “Criminal Justice,” that came into…
Also on Sunday: The MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, BET, VH1, 9 p.m.) stopped being important about the time MTV did. Still, they will try to wring out a little bit of excitement…