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…
Tuesday TV: The First ‘Fast and Furious’
A dozen years before Vin Diesel was born, John Ireland and Dorothy Malone starred in their own race film, “The Fast and the Furious” (TCM, 1:30 a.m.). The 1955 B-movie…
Review: Paul McCartney, Bringing It at 75
Paul McCartney was just kidding a half century ago, when he painted a picture of a grandfatherly existence at 64, doing the garden, digging the weeds and wondering whether he’d…
Monday TV: Two More New Shows Start
New shows are still rolling out on broadcast TV schedules this late in summer. On “Somewhere Between” (ABC, 10 p.m.), Paula Patton plays a TV news person whose child is…
Sunday TV: ‘Insecure,’ ‘Ballers,’ Sharks
Issa Rae’s adaptation of a web series to a glossy premium cable comedy might have had some bumps in its first season, but by tonight’s season premiere, “Insecure” (HBO, 10:30…
What I Saw at Capital Fringe
I took buses, cars, Metro trains, streetcars, and even walked to the H Street corridor where most of this year's Capital Fringe Festival took place in Northeast D.C. As part…
Saturday TV: Hanging with Julian Assange
Even while profiling Edward Snowden in the first rate documentary “Citizenfour,” director Laura Poitras had been following Julian Assange down his particular wormhole to Wikileaks. There was even crossover between…
Friday TV: New “Ozark’ ‘Descendants 2’
The good will that Jason Bateman and Laura Linney have built up through their careers compels you to give their sudden new series a chance. “Ozark” (Netflix, streaming), despite its…