Wednesday TV: A New Line of ‘Suits’
With Meghan Markel having left for a better position (in the royal family), and Patrick J. Adams, who played her new husband on the show, gone too, “Suits” (USA, 9…
Tuesday TV: The All-Star Game from D.C.
It’s not what it used to be, but it is what it is: Baseball’s 89th All-Star Game (Fox, 8 p.m.) gets the attention tonight from Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.,…
Monday TV: Portrait of Robin Williams
Despite the title, the sweet and sad documentary “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind” (HBO, 8 p.m.) only offers a glimpse at what made the mile-a-minute connections made by the…
Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who is America?’
Heavy prothetic makeup is the vehicle for Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest devilish comedy. Lest anyone imagine he is Ali G or Borat, he’s padded with all kinds of altering makeup …
Also on Sunday: The World Cup Finale
The day’s biggest sporting event begins this morning: Croatia vs. France (Fox, 11 a.m.) in the World Cup final. Just behind it is the men’s championship at Wimbledon (ESPN, 9…
Saturday TV: Big Tennis Showdowns
On the day of the women’s final and men’s semifinal at Wimbledon (ESPN, 8 a.m.), here’s the premium cable premiere of “Battle of the Sexes” (HBO, 8 p.m.), the recreation…
Friday TV: Undercover Employee
Summer is a time for reruns and reality shows, of course. But there is also time for the kind of documentary series that don’t always make it to prime time…
UCB: Conjuring New Show Every Night
"Seinfeld" might have been a TV show about nothing, but shows by the Upright Citizens Brigade at Woolly Mammoth literally begin with nothing. The "Four Gorgeous Women!" as they kept…
Thursday TV: Hot Wheels Turn 50
Not every benchmark of 1968 was a grim one. Let’s talk about cool toy cars that debuted a half century ago, in the “Hot Wheels: 50th Anniversary Special” (History, 8…
Taylor Swift’s Big, Big Stadium Show
Despite the dizzying confluence of torches, fireworks, lights, immense video screens, dancing squads, light-up fan wristbands and three-story snakes — so many snakes — in Taylor Swift’s big Reputation stadium…