Also on Monday: Hollywood Blacklist
The Hollywood Blacklist gets a good look on Turner Classic Movies Mondays and Tuesdays this month, starting with the documentary “Hollywood on Trial” (8 p.m.). It leads to the films…
Sunday TV: Frankie Shaw’s New ‘SMILF’
We will refrain from using the fake word “dramedy” to describes comedy with pathos, but the new , unfortunately named “SMILF” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) falls into that category. It stars, written…
Saturday TV: The Durst Lifetime Movie
Katharine McPhee is Kathleen Durst in the made-for-TV movie “The Lost Wife of Robert Durst” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), about the first marriage of the real estate heir who was the…
Friday TV: More Margaret Atwood
Is Margaret Atwood the new queen of the limited series? Following the success of the adaptation of her “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu, here is an adaptation of her lesser…
Thursday TV: Another Swipe at ‘S.W.A.T.’
The networks’ success in reviving old TV titles continues with “S.W.A.T.” (CBS, 10 p.m.), a TV drama that first aired for one season in 1975 before being turned into a…
Lucinda Williams’ New ‘Sweet Old World’
The increasingly popular ploy of celebrating a classic album on its anniversary came a little differently to Lucinda Williams. Instead of performing the original work top to bottom in front…
Wednesday TV: Breaking in a New Hawk
Helen Macdonald dealt with her grief over the sudden death of her father by rekindling their mutual love for wild birds and trying her hand at trying to train a…