Monday TV: All About the Avett Bros
Judd Apatow may be becoming, in addition to comedy director and writer and stand-up, a documentarian. In addition to an upcoming four hour work on his mentor Garry Shandling, he’s…
Sunday TV: Hip Hop Takeover on Grammys
Lady Gaga, Rihanna, U2 and Elton John are all scheduled to perform at The 60th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS, 7:30 p.m.) as well as three others nominated for album of…
Saturday TV: Conan in Haiti
America’s best goodwill ambassador is not the one in Switzerland this weekend. It may be the read-headed one who rushed down to a neighboring island country after the President disparaged…
Friday TV: ‘Dirty Money’ Cites Corruption
It’s hard to top the sheer productivity of Alex Gibney who produced more than a half dozen documentaries last year and directed a couple more. Before he releases the miniseries…
Thursday TV: RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
A third edition of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” (VH1, 8 p.m.) begins, bringing back such names as Trixie Mattel, Thorgy Thor, Shangela, Kennedy Davenport, Chi Chi DeVayne and BenDeLaCreme.…
Wednesday TV: Reconsidering ‘Waco’
Hard to believe it will be 25 years since the burning of the Branch Davidians in Texas this spring. Hard, too, to get your head around the notion of Taylor…
Tuesday TV: Boy, Oh Boy: ‘Baskets’
In a post-Patty Duke age when portraying twins both a showy way to act and edit, and possibly a cost-cutting way to cast, where James Franco plays two roles on…
Monday TV: Soderbergh’s Shifting ‘Mosaic’
Steven Soderbergh’s latest TV endeavor is a handsome looking murder mystery that takes place in the blue-tinged mountain resorts of Summit, Utah. Yet there seems something quite off about it.…
Sunday TV: Cool Spy Drama ‘Counterpart’
If you think you’ve seen too much of J.K. Simmons on insurance commercials for a guy who deservedly won an Oscar, you’ll see twice as many of him in the…
Attenborough Dives Into ‘Blue Planet II’
Sir Richard Attenborough usually gets closer to his subject matter than he is able to in “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II” (BBC America, 9 p.m.). Concentrating on the 3/4 of…