Saturday: Hallmark Taps Reality TV
It’s about time one of TV’s romantic franchises takes note of another. Hallmark veers from its usual plots to set its latest made-for-TV movie “My One & Only” (Hallmark, 9…
Friday TV: Two New Streaming Fantasies
Few mention the 1982 “The Dark Crystal” as the height of Jim Henson’s puppetry, but minds may change after the lavish sequel, coming decades after the original dark fantasy. “The…
Thursday TV: Netflix Does Romance Too
Who says mediocre romance films are only found on Hallmark? Since Netflix wants to be everything for everyone, they have their own romance movie too in the cornily-named “Falling Inn…
Wednesday TV: ‘Animal Babies’ on PBS
Cuteness alert: A new three-episode summer series tracks the youngest creatures on Earth in “Animal Babies: First Year on Earth” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings). Tonight, first steps are…
Tuesday TV: Suspecting the Satanist
When the bodies of two missing men are found in the basement of Satanist in a rural North Carolina, it seems like an open and shut case against John Lawson,…
Monday: MTV Video Music Awards in N.J.
Sebastian Manscalco — he’s a comic — hosts the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, VH1, BET, TV Land, Comedy Central, 8 p.m.) from Newark for its 35th year. Taylor…
The Brash ‘Florida’ Show That Could
The last great new series of the summer comes to TV after a rough ride through two earlier companies. First announced as an AMC project, “On Being a God in…
Also Sunday: Final Season of ‘The Affair’
While it at first seemed “The Affair” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) was lasting a lot longer than its original intent, the new and final season seems welcome indeed. Creator Sarah Treem…
Saturday TV: ‘The Making of Motown’
Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson trade stories on the beginnings of their lucrative partnership in Detroit, producing some of the greatest soul records of the 20th century in “Hitsville: The…
Friday TV: Finding Stardom via Streaming
A teenager's road to fame via internet videos is followed in Liza Mandelup’s engrossing documentary “Jawline” (Hulu, streaming), which concentrates on the a 16 year old Austyn Tester, who posts…