Also on Wednesday: How We Fly
A new three part series on public television, a co-production with the BBC, looks at all that goes into modern air transportation. “City in the Sky” (PBS, 10 p.m., check…
Review: Spooky Action’s ‘The River’
The theater space at the Spooky Action Theatre is so intimate you immediately feel you’re in the tiny cabin where all its action in Jez Butterworth’s play “The River” takes…
A Best Bet for Militia Group Movie Night
Got a chilling feeling at the PBS portion of the TV Critics Association winter press tour last month. Of course it was happening just before the inauguration, but it was…
Also on Tuesday: Scripted Bravo Attempt
The home of reality shows, Bravo tries a stab at more scripted fare with “Imposters” (Bravo, 9 p.m.) in which Inbar Lavi plays a con woman who cheats successive husbands…
Monday TV: Justin Kirk in New ‘APB’
Perhaps you don’t have the stomach for a new series about a billionaire who rides into town and tries to fix something without any experience. In the case of “APB”…
Keeping You Up to Midnight: A New ’24’
Those digital clock beeps, the still remarkable real-time format, the relentless action, the petty office politics -- the makers of "24: Legacy" (Fox, 10:30 p.m. or whenever the Super Bowl…
Also Sunday: Apparently, a Football Game
This is what we’re supposed to have our national laser focus on, a hopelessly overblown meeting between New England vs. Atlanta (Fox, 6:30 p.m.) in what is grandiosely called Super…
Saturday TV: Franco, Slumming at Lifetime
Here’s another one of those weird instances of Hollywood stars slumming in the Lifetime movie world, as James Franco produces and stars in the creepy thriller “High School Lover” (Lifetime,…
Playlist 2-3-17
After a healthy half of a Firesign Theatre album, it was all about the plane crash, 58 years ago today, that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper,…
Friday TV: The Suburban Zombie Mom
The new “Santa Clarita Diet” (Netflix, streaming) strikes nearly the right tone in trying to be a comedy about a suburban mom and real estate agent suddenly turned zombie. Drew…