Thursday TV: ‘Downton’ Toasts Its Movie
It was grown and nurtured by public television, where it became its biggest hit. But the pre-arty for its motion picture debut is being held on a competing commercial network.…
Wednesday TV: Revisiting the Slasher Flix
The new season of “American Horror Story: 1984” (FX, 10 p.m.) is so subtitled not out of an Orwell homage, but to salute slasher films of the 1980s. Accordingly, it…
Tuesday TV: ‘Paradise’ Closes for Season
Summer’s end is symbolically marked on the three hour finale of “Bachelor in Paradise” (ABC, 8 p.m.), where desperate daters have spent the season lounging on a Mexican beach. Did…
Monday TV: Your New Late, Late Night Host
There’s a new late night host. Canadian comic Lilly Singh, who came up through YouTube, takes over the late, late slot formerly held by “Last Call with Carson Daly” for…
Remembering Ric Ocasek, 1944-2019
Sad to hear of the death of Ric Ocasek Sunday at 75. The man most widely known for his elegant electronic pop songs with The Cars may have been equally…
Ken Burns’ Trip Through ‘Country Music’
In an era when history is more often doled out in digestible social media attention spans (“5 Takeaways from Such and Such”; “Top 10 War Losses”), there’s something to be…
Also on Sunday: Spanish ‘Folsom Prison’
Speaking of country music, “Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison” (Netflix, streaming) has the popular norteño band from San Jose returning to the prison to celebrate the 50th anniversary…
Saturday TV: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
Steve Carrell stars in Robert Zemeckis’ “Welcome to Marwan” (HBO, 8 p.m.), making its premium cable debut. It’s based on the true story of a man who created a doll…
Peter Frampton’s Spirited Farewell
Peter Frampton supercharged his career with a live album decades ago, so he’s going out playing live as well. In a stop at the Anthem in D.C. Wednesday, he seemed…
Friday TV: ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘Undone’
In the new, eight-part “Unbelievable” (Netflix, streaming) Toni Collette and Merritt Wever make a formidable team of detectives, digging into a sexual assault case of a young woman (Kaitlyn Dever)…