Wednesday TV: Scary Times in New York
Halloween is prime time for introducing scary new series, such as the new “Tell Me a Story” (CBS AllAccess, streaming), an anthology series base on a Mexican show that takes…
Tuesday TV: More Scary Facebook News
If part one of "The Facebook Dilemma," the excellent report on “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) didn’t make you cancel your account Monday, tonight’s concluding part two will…
Monday TV: Travel Outside the Bubble
While her mother remains a boogiewoman in Republican midterm ads, the filmmaker Aleandra Pelosi goes cross country to talk with voters in particularly conservative sectors about gun rights, jobs, immigration,…
Sunday TV: Ray’s Return and More Talk
“Ray Donovan” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) begins its sixth season in a new locale: New York, where there’s a lot of work for a fixer. But first Liev Schreiber’s character has…
Saturday TV: A Tom Hanksgiving
It might as well be its own holiday. First, Tom Hanks stars in “The Post” (HBO, 8 p.m.), making its premium cable debut, in which he gave his Oscar-nominated performance…
A New Orleans ‘Take Me to the River’
It’s less than a half a year to Fat Tuesday, but the heart of Mardi Gras is on the road, in the form of the "Take Me to the River"…
Friday TV: A Darker Witch Sabrina
It’s been fun to watch Kieran Shipka grow up on TV, first on “Mad Men” and then on oddball things like “Flowers in the Attic.” Now she stars in her…
Thursday TV: ‘Heathers’ for Halloween
Meant to be a sassy series based on the 80s cult movie, “Heathers” (Paramount, 10 p.m.) was all set to go last spring until Parkland shootings made a jokey series…
Wednesday TV: UK’s Popular ‘Bodyguard’
It’s getting hard to keep up with all the series on Netflix. The latest one is the British import “Bodyguard” (Netflix, streaming) a series about the intersection between a war…
Tuesday TV: Fresh Look at ‘Native America’
There’s an exciting new approach to the new four-part series “Native America” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) that emphasizes just how advanced native cultures in the Americas actually were…