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…
Thursday TV: Adieu to Beloved ‘Baskets’
When it first premiered three years ago, it seemed so perfect I worried that it was made just for me - some kind of concoction derived from a fever dream:…
Wednesday TV: They Knew It Was Coming
The nine-year-olds who are featured in the premiere of the revived “Psychic Kids” (A&E, 10 p.m.) maybe weren’t alive when the third and final season of the original version of…