Saturday TV: Pre-Madness Championships
The brackets of March Madness have their start in what happens this weekend, on championship week of men’s college basketball. It all starts early with UMBC vs. Vermont (ESPN2, 11…
Survey of American Music in Drag
The Kennedy Center kicked off its multidisciplinary contemporary cultural assault with something thought to embody the approach, Taylor Mac's “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (1776-2016).” Had the cabaret history…
Friday TV: ‘Collateral’ Amid New Streaming
Streaming services dump a whole lot more programming again this Friday. Chief among them is the new four part British import “Collateral” (Netflix, streaming), Carey Mulligan plays a London detective…
Thursday TV: Mindy’s New ‘Champions’
Mindy Kaling isn’t in the new network sitcom she co-created, “Champions” (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) nearly enough. She appears as an ex of a clueless gym rat played by Anders Holm…
Wednesday TV: Cute ‘Life Sentence’
Can a series succeed on cuteness alone? If so then there is a life for “Life Sentence” (The CW, 9 p.m.). Lucy Hale stars as a young woman who thought…
Tuesday TV: Saluting ‘Mister Rogers’ at 50
Michael Keaton returns to the Pittsburgh public TV station where he was a member of the crew on one of the more beloved children’s shows of TV history as the…
Monday TV: Mental Health Movies
A two-day, 10 film event on Turner Classic Movies, Mental Illness in the Movies, looks at how the malady has been treated in Hollywood. It begins tonight with Joanne Woodward…
Sunday TV: Little Statues Distributed
People make too much about it, of course, but it’s one of the handful of moments everybody watches. And with Jimmy Kimmel back at the helm, The 90th Annual Academy…
Saturday TV: Independent Spirit Awards
One of the best things about Oscar weekend is the awards show for indie film the day before. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney host the Film Independent Independent Spirit Awards…
Friday TV: A Look Inside ‘Flint Town’
It’s not just the water that’s bad in Flint. There’s also a crisis on the police department, which has been cut deeply because of budgetary constraints while crime has risen.…