Tuesday TV: Freeform’s ‘The Bold Type’
New series about women in magazines have had mixed results. “Good Girls Revolt” was canceled after one season on Amazon Prime, but “Younger,” which is only peripherally about publishing, continues…
Monday TV: A Wilder Side of Shakespeare
Before he wrote all those plays and sonnets, the guy had to live, right? The new series “Will” (TNT, 9 p.m.) imagines young Shakespeare as a kind of 16th century…
Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre are ‘Defiant Ones’
It borrows its title from the 1958 film about a black and white prisoner chained together, but the bonds between super successful producers Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre led to…
Also On Sunday: Alec Baldwin Honored
Not sure exactly what he’s done to deserve the honor (did you see "Paris Can Wait"?), but a number of luminaries including Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Jane Krakowski, Jack…
Saturday TV: Doping ‘Tour De Pharmacy’
In the midst of another scenic and often dramatic Tour De France bicycle race, here’s an hour long spoof of a time when drugs took over the sport in “Tour…
Friday TV: ‘Castlevania,’ Vampire Hunter
It’s sounds a little like Transylvania, but the new animated action fantasy “Castlevania” (Netflix, streaming) is about a vampire hunter looking to kill Dracula, based on a video game of the…
Thursday TV: The Mosquito Menace
Before they bring out the bigger sharks to scare you, Discovery is poised to scare you with its film “Mosquito” (Discovery, 9 p.m.), about the danger and unpredictability of the…
Wednesday TV: The Beginnings of Crack
How did crack become an epidemic in U.S. cities in the 80s? A new series produced in part by John Singleton recreates the era in a new series called “Snowfall”…
Tuesday TV: Reading from Parchment
It’s been a big few days for the nation’s original documents. First the New York Times presented a big annotated version of the Constitution and now Alexandria Pelosi has her…
Monday TV: Syria’s Fate in ‘The War Show’
Obadiah Zytoon was a young radio host who began filming her friends and fellow journalists in Syria who began getting caught up with the Arab Spring inspired protests in 2011…