Josh Rouse Joins Grant-Lee Phillips
For a joint tour that ends in a collaboration, Josh Rouse and Grant-Lee Phillips don’t look like they’ll immediately go together. Rouse, in a three piece suit and tie, travels…
Monday TV: Two Emotional Documentaries
A couple of emotionally involving documentaries premiere tonight. In Rudy Valdez’ “The Sentence” (HBO, 8 p.m.), he chronicles the 15-year-sentence given his sister Cindy Shank for being a girlfriend of…
Sunday TV: HBO Goes ‘Camping’
I’m not understanding the critical scorn heaped on “Camping” (HBO, 10 p.m.), an amusing little comedy about a group of couples who celebrate a 45th anniversary with an ill-fated outdoor…
Saturday TV: Another Kennedy in Space
Documentarian Rory Kennedy has a personal stake in her feature-length space film “Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow” (Discovery, Science, 9 p.m.) celebrating 60 years of the agency; it…
Friday TV: ‘The Romanoffs’ Take Off
Once a moribund empty spot, streaming services have made Fridays a big day in TV fare. Most anticipated today is “The Romanoffs” (Amazon, streaming), the first work from Matthew Weiner…
Way Too Timely ‘Measure for Measure’
The innocent woman who had just been groped by a powerful man intent on defiling her turns to the audience and asks plaintively, “To whom should I complain?” and even…
Thursday TV: New ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’
Chef and journalist Samin Norsat hosts a new food travel series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” (Netflix, streaming) that concentrates each episode on one of those aspects in food, based on…
Wednesday TV: ‘All-American’ Makes Debut
The new “All-American” (CW, 9 p.m.) seems at first to be an agreeable “O.C.”-like high school yarn, but with elements of race and “Friday Night Lights.” Daniel Ezra stars as…
Tuesday TV: Some American Music Awards
It’s been a minute since the last music awards show, so here’s the 2018 American Music Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.), hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross. Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer…
Gaz Coombes Rocks the Wine Drinkers
When Supergrass called it quits in 2010, frontman Baz Coombes kept going, with a series of solo albums that showed how strong he was at songcraft and increasingly, how talented…