Wednesday TV: A Cloud Over the CMAs
There may be a whole different tone to the CMA Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.) this year because of the recent shootings, including one at a big country music festival. Organizers…
Tuesday TV: ‘Damnation,’ ‘Long Road’
The new series “Damnation” (USA, 10 p.m.) takes place in the Depression-era Midwest, when a visiting preacher, played by Killian Scott, tries to stir up a working class strike. But a strikebreaker…
Daniel Kitson’s D.C. World Premiere
There was sufficient buzz about the booking of a new Daniel Kitson show at Studio Theatre this season that they would apparently take anything. The British storyteller, the darling of…
Rolling Stone Pages Through 50 Years
The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone is being marked a number of ways, from a biography that publisher Jann Wenner has already disavowed (and is being well-reviewed) to this two…
Finding the Voice of John Coltrane
“Independent Lens” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) kicks off its 16th season with what would be a perfect “American Masters.” The absorbing and uplifting biography of jazz giant John…
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…