Also on Saturday: ‘Outlander’ in France
If you can only watch one romantic time-traveling saga, it should be “Outlander” (Starz, 9 p.m.), which starts its second season with Jime and Claire arriving in France where they…
Playlist 4-8-16
The death of Merle Haggard this week necessitated close listening to his output -- and he put out a lot. Not only did he have a great, expressive voice, the…
Friday TV: New Season of ‘Catastrophe’
A second season starts for “Catastrophe” (Amazon, streaming), the well-regarded comedy about an American ad man (Rob Delaney) and an Irish teacher (Sharon Horgan) whose one night stand led to…
Colder-White-Skaggs at Birchmere
Cooder-White-Skaggs sounds like a legal firm or at the least a group of CPAs. Instead, it’s a grand musical merger of two storied families — country star Ricky Skaggs, who…
Thinking About Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard died on his 79th birthday Wednesday and his familiar voice isn’t making me feel much better on the stereo, as he sings “Are The Good Times Really Over?”…
Thursday TV: End of ‘Idol’ As We Know It
You’ll want to watch the finale “American Idol” (Fox, 8 p.m.), not for the nail-biting over who will win — La’Porsha vs Trent is no Kelly vs. Justin — but…
Wednesday TV: Attenborough, At It Again
Foremost naturalist Sir David Attenborough turns 90 next month, but nothing slows him down. His latest series “David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.), about the evolution of…
Opera Review: ‘After Life / Josephine’
What happens when American women move to Paris for creatively fulfilling careers? They sing. Or at least that’s what happened to a couple of singular women at the beginning of…
Tuesday TV: ‘Black Girls Rock’ Again
A new “Black Girls Rock” (BET, Centric, 8 p.m.), recorded last week in Newark, honors Rhianna, Gladys Knight, Shonda Rhimes, Dana Gurira, Amanda Stenberg and Black Lives Matter organizers Patrisse…
Monday TV: All About Mapplethorpe
“Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” (HBO, 9 p.m.) takes its title from Sen. Jesse Helms admonitions in his effort to ban the work in the 80s. IT’s endured, and the…