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…
Tuesday TV: Halloween and Beyond
Halloween means horror all day on Turner Classic Movies with “White Zombie” (8:45 a.m.), “Mad Love” (10 a.m.), “Dementia 13” (11:30 a.m.), “13 Ghosts” (1 p.m.), “The Fearless Vampire Killers”…
Monday TV: Good Time for Poe Update
Denis O’Hare portrays Edgar Allan Poe on a timely edition of “American Masters” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), who despite his connection to horror, actually published more comedies. Kathleen…
Sunday TV: ‘The Deuce’ Season Finale
It’s been the best thing on TV this season, with the richest array of characters and action, but there was something quite slow about “The Deuce” (HBO, 9 p.m.) developing…
Saturday TV: David S. Pumpkins Again
What began as a quirky, funny and weird skit last year is now turned into “The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.). Tom Hanks returns to give…
Friday TV: Michael Jackson, Re-Animated
Michael Jackson’s 1983 video for “Thriller” might have been perfect Halloween fare, right down to Vincent Price’s cackle. But it still wasn’t quite long enough to qualify as an hour…
Thursday TV: Back to the ’80s
The anticipated second season of “Stranger Things” (Netflix, streaming) drops in its entirety, with (almost) all of the youthful characters in the Duffer Brothers’ ‘80s series returning, along with its…
Wednesday TV: Awards Show for Dogs
A least the speeches will be short at the 2017 American Humane Hero Dog Awards (Hallmark, 8 p.m.), honoring canines in the military and law enforcement and other service roles.…
Tuesday TV: ‘At Home with Amy Sedaris’
One of TV’s sharpest wits gets another shot with a new show “At Home with Amy Sedaris” (truTV, 10:30 and 11 p.m.) that, in the tradition of her line of…