Also On Tonight: Nashville Stars in Austin
Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Sugarland, Maren Morris and Billy Currington are among the acts performing in the “iHeart Country Festival” (Fox, 8 p.m.) from the Frank Erwin Center in Austin,…
Fox Day at Press Tour Turns Weird
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Things were already getting squirrelly a week into the TV Critics Association summer press tour, after the usual dizzying barrage of cable, streaming and public television…
Saturday TV: ‘Three Billboards’
A couple of Oscar contenders make their premium cable debut tonight. with Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (HBO, 8 p.m.) and Timothée…
Friday TV: Farewell to ‘Quantico’
It’s the final episode ever for “Quantico” (ABC, 8 p.m.), the spy yarn starring Priyanka Chopra, whose character has her final showdown in Ireland with her archenemy to close the…
Thursday TV: ‘Bachelorette Weekend’
It’s not quite “Bachelorette” or “Bachelor in Paradise.” But “Bachelorette Weekend” (CMT, 11 p.m.) takes a look at a company in Nashville that plans elaborate bachelor weekends for people. A…
Wednesday TV: ‘Sinner’ Season Two
A second season starts for “The Sinner” (USA, 10 p.m.), a series that flew under the radar last season with Jessica Biel and has won some Emmy nominations. The new…
When Movie Stars Invade Press Tour
As high-quality as television has been over the past decade or more, there are still moments when movie stars can still cause their own commotion by their mere presence. It’s…
The Excesses of Press Tour
It was a session for a Starz documentary called "America to Me," covering an academic year at a suburban Chicago high school and how issues of race and privilege affect…
Tuesday TV: Poehler, Offerman Get Crafty
It’s a pleasure to have Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman back on network TV, bantering and challenging one another. The former co-stars of “Parks and Recreation” reunite on a show…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written this summer: A walk through a retrospective of Georg Baselitz for Smithsonian Magazine.com. A feature on the rise of the intimacy consultant in…