Also on Sunday: New ‘Outlander’ Season
The time traveling romance “Outlander” (Starz, 8 p.m.) is back for its third season, with Claire, now pregnant, adjusting to 1940s life in Boston with Frank, while Jamie is at…
Saturday TV: ‘Con Man’ Comes to Syfy
The web series “Con Man” (Syfy, 10 p.m.) migrates to cable, starring Alan Tudyk portraying a washed-up former sci-fi celebrity who can only revisit his glory days at comic conventions.…
Another Steve Harvey Show, for Daytime
While prime time will dribble out its fall schedule over the next couple of months, many daytime shows start up immediately after Labor Day. Such was the case last week…
Friday TV: The Artist Behind ‘Bambi’
Until he died last year at age 106, Tyrus Wong was the oldest living Chinese American artist, whose work in film began in designing the bucolic, evocative scenes of Walt…
Thursday TV: NFL Season Crashes In
There’s no stopping it now: The NFL season starts in earnest with Kansas City at New England (NBC, 8:30 p.m.), preceded by the first “Football Night in America” (NBC, 7:30…
‘Dancing with Stars’ Cast Largely Starless
Perhaps we need a new definition of “Stars.” Few if any of the participants in the 25th season of “Dancing with the Stars” can rightfully be so described. None are,…
Wednesday TV: ‘You’re the Worst’ Returns
Jimmy was rattled enough by his proposal to Gretchen at the end of last season of “You’re the Worst” (FXX, 10 p.m.) to have spent the last three month in…
Tuesday TV: Political ‘Horror Story’
Yes, Election Night unfolded as a horror story for many last November, but it ham-handedly becomes the theme on the seventh iteration of “American Horror Story: Cult” (FX, 10 p.m.).…
Monday TV: Reliving It All Again
Now that the Princess Diana documentaries appear to be over, it’s time for all of the annual documentaries about 9/11 — which was 16 years ago a week from today.…
Steely Dan’s Walter Becker (1950-2017)
One of the charms of Walter Becker, the Steely Dan co founder who died Sunday at 67, is that he looked less like a rock star and more like the…