Monday TV: ‘Siesta Key,’ Shakespeare Flop
The glossy reality documentary style of MTV’s old “Laguna Beach” — big on backing music and without confessional afterthoughts — is attempted again with a whole new group of pretty…
Sunday TV: New ‘Top Gear America’ Team
I thought the stateside version of the British auto show should star Jay Leno. Instead, the new “Top Gear America” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) is hosted by actor William Fichtner,…
Saturday TV: Not Star-Crossed Any More
From the parting is such sweet sorrow department: It’s the last episode ever of the failed Shondaland Elizabethan experiment, “Still Star-Crossed” (ABC, 10 p.m.). It comes to an end with…
Knock First at HBO’s ‘Room 104’
A warning to those, like I did, put on the Duplass Brothers’ new “Room 104” (HBO, 11:30 p.m.), expecting something light and witty along the lines of their last series,…
Also on Friday: ‘The Last Tycoon’
Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammar and Lily Collins star in a lavish nine-episode adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last novel, “The Last Tycoon” (Amazon, streaming). Jessica Williams the much-missed correspondent from…
Larry David and Bernie Sanders Related
In addition to the Brooklyn bray, a bald head, and being in their 70s, Larry David may have had an even closer relationship to Bernie Sanders, whom he famously impersonated…
Thursday TV: Dating from a Safe Distance
Gawking at couples going through their clumsy motions of romance is becoming a staple of armchair entertainment. Besides “The Bachelorette” or tonight’s concluding “Married at First Sight” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.)…
Wednesday TV: Hip-Hop Talent Scouts
On the new “Signed” (VH1, 9 p.m.), rapper Rick Ross joins with songwriter The-Dream and Lenny S. of Roc Nation to find the next big hip hop and R&B star…
Ryan Lochte Said He’d Race a ‘Real’ Shark
Olympic gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte says he’d race against a shark. But, he added at an opening day TV Critics Association event Tuesday that “I would race a real…
Summer Press Tour Begins in California
If it’s the Golden Age of Television, as people often say, then it should be a gilded time, too, for the annual TV Critics Association summer press tour. As the…