On Saturday: ‘SNL’ Reaches 43rd Season
The 43rd season of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) premieres, with Ryan Gosling hosting and Jay-Z as musical guest. “Versailles” (Ovation, 10 p.m.) begins its second season. The cast…
The New Fall Season 2017: Fridays
The New Fall Season We're nearing the end of a week of looking at the new fall season on broadcast TV night by night with an evening that just has…
Also on Friday: Examining Mass Shootings
It happens so often now that it often doesn’t even make the first page. Mass shootings occur at a numbing pace and nothing is done to slow gun violence. On…
The New Fall Season 2017: Thursdays
The New Fall Season We’ve been looking at the new TV season day by day all week and the weirdness and creative bankruptcy of the new fall TV season is…
Also Thursday: Great Add to ‘Great News’
Tina Fey puts a little more juice in her “Great News” (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) by joining the cast as a tough new executive and just like that the series moves…
The 2017 Fall Season: Wednesdays
The New Fall Season You would think Hump Day would be a good time to place some interesting new shows on broadcast TV. You would be wrong. There are just…
Also Wednesday: ‘Liar,’ 12 Shows Return
Joanne Froggatt gets to doc her maids clothes from “Downtown Abbey” as she steps into a sleek thriller “Liar” (Sundance, 10 p.m.), a mini-series about a school teacher who spends…
The 2017 Fall Season: Tuesdays
The New Fall Season We're counting down each day's new offerings in the new broadcast TV season this week. And frankly, there doesn't seem to be too many of them…
Also on Tuesday: Back to High Schools
High school is a minefield, taking on the weight of societal problems even as it tries to encourage students to find a way to overcome it all. Two documentary series…
Jordan Klepper as Alt-News Purveyor
The edge between satire and contemporary discourse is becoming dangerously thin. Was it the President going on about NFL games being lousy since they’ve worried about concussions or was it…