Wednesday TV: ‘Criminal Minds’ Finale
“Criminal Minds” (CBS, 10 p.m.) closes its penultimate season tonight with the marriage of Joe Mantegna’s Rossi to Gail O’Grady’s Krystal. But there are also a series of fatal shootings…
Peak TV’s Plateau and Other FX News
Peak TV took a pause last year. Instead of steady, explosive growth of the number of scripted TV series with original episodes, there was just a 2 percent increase from…
Tuesday TV: POTUS Does SOTU
The specter of Nancy Pelosi looking over the shoulder of Donald Trump as he gives his shutdown-delayed Sate of the Union Address (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox…
Monday TV: The Dark Shadow of Blackface
It would seem a bit inappropriate to start Black History Month with an emphasis on collecting racist black memorabilia from the past. But news dominated by the Virginia governor who…
Super Sunday TV: Roman Numerology
Roman numerals have their biggest day of the year with not only the hype surrounding Super Bowl LIII (CBS, 6:30 p.m.) between a couple of teams with little national love,…
Cranston’s Next Series is on Showtime
The next big TV role for Bryan Cranston will be in Showtime’s legal thriller “Your Honor,” a limited series coming next year from Robert and Michelle King, the team behind…
Not Really ‘Live From Here’
After having soured over the years on "Prairie Home Companion" and its tropes, I was still only mildly interested in its renamed replacement "Live from Here" when it emerged on…
Saturday TV: Super Bowl Gospel
The 20th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration (BET, 8 and 9 p.m.) will feature such gospel stars as Kirk Franklin, the Winans, Koryn Hawthorne nd Tasha Cobbs Leonard. But the…
‘Roswell’ Writer Changed Role at TCA
Not so long ago, Carina Adly MacKenzie (pictured top, center) sat among the reporters at the TV Critics Association press tour. This week she sat facing them, as one of…
Friday TV: Horror in the Art World
A horror film is set in the art world in Dan Gilroy’s film “Velvet Buzzsaw” (Netflix, streaming), starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a Los Angeles art critic and Rene Russo as…