Friday TV: Cooking with Jacques
“Food,” says chef Jacques Pépin, “is a conversation. “And maybe that’s why cooking shows are popular,” he told reporters earlier this year, “because in our time of political correctness, that’s…
Thursday TV: ‘Love Actually’ Update
The 2003 romantic comedy “Love Actually” (Showtime 2, 8 p.m.) never got an official sequel despite its popularity, especially at Christmastime. That changes tonight, sort of, in a 15 minute…
Is That Jack Bauer on Guitar?
Among the perks of being a successful actor is the ability, at the drop of a hat, to fulfill every vague rock star notion you ever had. Unlike most struggling…
Wednesday TV: ‘Dirty Dancing’ Done Cheap
High on the list of unnecessary, unasked for things on TV this season is a three hour musical remake of the 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing” (ABC, 8 p.m.) about romance…
Tuesday TV: Dark Force in the White House
He’s already been regularly depicted as a menacing Skeletor figure on “Saturday Night Live.” But what does the role of Setphen Bannon continue to be at the White House? A…
Monday TV: The Bachelorette and Color
“The most diverse cast ever” is what they’re promising on “The Bachelorette” (ABC, 9 p.m.), which couldn’t even wait until she was eliminated from “The Bachelor” to tell Rachel Lindsay…
Sunday TV: ‘Twin Peaks’ 25 Years Later
What should one expect from the surprise reboot of David Lynch’s legendary “Twin Peaks” (Showtime, 9 p.m.), picking up 25 years after it went off the air? No advance copies…
Saturday TV: De Niro Does Madoff
After Richard Dreyfuss already played Bernie Madoff on a two night mini-series, it hardly seems necessary to hash it out again. But although HBO's "The Wizard of Lies" (HBO, 8…
Friday TV: Another Old Crime to Unravel
The brutal, unsolved murder of a nun in Baltimore in 1969 is not something her ex-students, now retired and grandmothers, will let go. So they meet in Facebook groups and…
Upfronts: Four New Ones from The CW
In a season when old shows from “Roseanne” to “S.W.A.T.” have announced comeback seasons or reboots, The CW network closed a week of network upfront presentations saying it would bring…