Saturday TV: Erika Christensen on Lifetime
Erika Christensen stars in an adaptation of Jane Green’s book “To Have and to Hold” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) about a waitress who reconnects with a high school crush (Antonio Cupo)…
Friday TV: Richard Gere as Media Mogul
The BBC series “MotherFatherSon” (Starz, 10 p.m.) begins a stateside run. It stars Richard Gere as a media mogul who fights for the future of the company after his son,…
Thursday TV: Denzel Washington Honored
The star of “Glory” and “Training Day” gets his own glory in the special “AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Denzel Washington” (TNT, 10 p.m.), taped earlier this month…
Wednesday TV: No Denial for the Nile
The new three-part series “Rivers of Life” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) looks at the wildlife, people and scenery alongside three major waterways in the world, starting with the…
Tuesday TV: A Pair of Pride Documentaries
The largely untold story of how tens of thousands of gay federal workers were fired or denied employment in the 1950s is told in Josh Howard’s documentary “The Lavender Scare”…
Saturday TV: Swashbuckling All Day
A dozen Errol Flynn movies seems right for a late summer Saturday. It starts today on Turner Classic Movies with “Footsteps in the Dark” (6 a.m.), “Northern Pursuit” (8 a.m.),…
Monday TV: ‘Grand Hotel’ Check-In Time
The thing I like about the new summer series “Grand Hotel” (ABC, 10 p.m.) is that it mostly knows what it is: frothy, light, colorful and exaggerated in the style…
Sunday TV: New ‘Euphoria,’ ‘City on a Hill’
As if to ensure Nettlix doesn’t have the corner on especially edgy turning-of-age teen dramas, here’s “Euphoria” (HBO, 10 p.m.), an adaptation of an Israeli series that plunges former Disney…
TV Eye Takes a Little Break
It's not too often that this column takes a break but it will be doing so this month for a couple of weeks. It comes at a time when summer…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written elsewhere recently: About the "Motown 60" Grammy Special for TV Guide magazine, an event I actually got to attend. A review of a…