Saturday TV: Serena Tries For 24th Win
It’s Serena Williams vs. Bianca Andreescu in the women’s singles final at the U.S. Open (ESPN, 4 p.m.). Otherwise, today is all about college football, with its first big Saturday…
Friday TV: Sacha Baron Cohen, Seriously
The last time Sacha Baron Cohen played an Israeli former agent of Mossad, it was the weird, disguised Erran Morad on his devilish prank show “Who is America?” who got…
Vampire Weekend’s Breezy World
It wasn’t quite Labor Day Weekend, but it was Vampire Weekend. The New York band was playing its first show at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., in nine years,…
Thursday TV: Nat Geo Activates
When National Geographic takes up issues, it usually has to do with conservation, species preservation or climate change. That focus widens with the new show “Activate” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.)…
Wednesday TV: Another View of Wu-Tang
The most chronicled hip-hop group on TV this year has to the the Wu-Tang Clan, who follow a documentary series on Showtime with a new docudrama that may well amp…
Tuesday TV: Conan Goes to Greenland
Conan O’Brien is one American who is eager to swoop into other countries and try to undo with humor the damage done by the administration made a hasty move to…
Monday: The Crimes of Harvey Weinstein
The sordid saga of Harvey Weinstein and the history of the Hollywood casting couch is told in Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary “Untouchable” (Hulu, streaming), which includes interviews with victims, journalists such…
Sunday TV: Here Comes Baby Billy
Before he stars in his own network comedy this fall, Walton Goggins cuts a fine figure as a televangelist named Baby Billy, who begins preaching in a former Sears store…
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…