Thursday TV: Diane Keaton Gets AFI Award
Even Woody Allen showed up last week for the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Diane Keaton (TNT, 10 p.m.), an event that also brought tributes from Al…
Wednesday: Syfy Holds Gory ‘Blood Drive’
The Syfy channel goes all out splatter with its new series “Blood Drive” (Syfy, 10 p.m.) which has at its touchstone the trashy “grind house” B-films like “Death Race 2000”…
Tuesday TV: ‘Oh Hello,’ Opens on Netflix
You may not have thought much of the recurring characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland when they kept popping up on “The Kroll Show.” But when John Mullaney and…
Monday TV: Oliver Stone Meets Putin
The last time Oliver Stone took to cable to present his worldview, it was “The Untold History of the United States.” Now the director takes his passion for finding another…
Sunday TV: Frank Underwood Hosts Tonys
Kevin Spacey takes time from “House of Cards” (Netflix, streaming) to host The 71st Annual Tony Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.). A theater buff himself, who will play Clarence Darrow in…
Remembering Adam West, Best Batman
For the number of actors who have donned the cape to become increasingly more dark Dark Knights in recent decades, the most iconic Batman was the one on TV in…
TV: Beginning of End for ‘Orphan Black’
Tatiana Maslany returns as a number of clones in the fifth season start of “Orphan Black” (BBC America, 10 p.m.), whose task this year is to tie up the ends…
Friday TV: The Turbulence of Cary Grant
He was one of Hollywood’s smoothest stars. Yet that was all a facade, Cary Grant maintains, hiding a turmoil inside that he treated with therapy and eventually repeated doses LSD.…
Thursday: Comey and Tragedy
One thing TV has over most other modern communication is its ability to share history as it occurs. It happened in the Watergate Hearings 44 years ago, and it may…
Wednesday TV: Deacon Hosts CMT Awards
Things get meta on this year’s CMT Music Awards (CMT, 8 p.m.) as its host is Charles Esten, who is known for portraying Deacon on a fictional show about country…