Sunday TV: Live ‘JC Superstar’ for Easter
It won’t be as fussy as other broadcast live musicals; indeed, the title is “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” (NBC, 8 p.m.). In other words, it won’t be fully…
Saturday TV: Final Four in Fractured Views
How divided is America? We can’t watch the Final Four in San Antonio without consulting with our own personal version of the games. Hence the Michigan vs. Loyola - Chicago…
Friday TV: About a Long Island FM Station
Even if we don’t believe that stars from U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode and Blondie wouldn’t ever have become big without airplay on a Long Island radio station (and we…
Marcia Clark Gets Back to Investigating
Until she became a heroine of the inaugural "American Crime Story", the former Los Angeles prosecutor Marcia Clark had been keeping a basement-deep low profile. But the sympathetic portrayal of…
Also On Thursday: Let’s Play Ball
Baseball season begins at last with Cubs at Miami (ESPN, 12:30 p.m.), Houston at Texas (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.), San Francisco at Dodgers (ESPN, 7 p.m.) and Cleveland at Seattle (ESPN, 10 p.m.). On the new “Siren” (Freeform, 8…
Wednesday TV: Zach Braff’s New Comedy
The third newly launched sitcoms in two days from ABC is pretty simpatico. Zach Braff stars as a radio guy who quotes his job to go into the field of…
‘Dolores’ Recounts Life of Activist Huerta
When Lois Vossen, executive producer of "Independent Lens" (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) was growing up in Minnesota, she had a direct connection to the subject of tonight’s film,…
Also on Tuesday: New Sitcom, ‘Roseanne’
As good as she was a sitcom star, it’s good to have Jenna Fischer back from the movies to star in a new network series. In “Splitting Up Together” (ABC,…
Apatow Pays Long Tribute to Mentor
A funeral was the spark of Judd Apatow’s big two-night, four-hour documentary on his comic mentor "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling" (HBO, 10 p.m.). And if Shandling was still…
Also On Monday: ‘One Strange Rock’
The last big, experienced set of astronauts get to tell what they’ve learned in the super-flashy new series “One Strange Rock” (National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.) which is so bent…