Wednesday TV: Candidates Finally Debate
A first effort to cull or at least contemplate 20 of the candidates running for Democratic nominee for President (five didn’t make it) begins in Miami with 10 candidates in…
Tuesday TV: ‘Big Brother’ Convenes Again
Summer camp is the theme for the 21st season of “Big Brother” (CBS, 8 p.m.), which begins a two-night premiere. Sixteen new houseguests get shut in their A-frame styled cabin…
Monday: Political Thriller ‘Years and Years’
Something unexpectedly good debuts on a summer Monday, with “Years and Years” (HBO, 10 p.m.), a British limited series that projects today’s political bad times into a disastrous near future.…
Sunday: Cardi Puts the B in BET Awards
Regina Hall hosts the 2019 BET Awards (BET, 9 p.m.) where Cardi B, above leads in nominations with seven. She'll also perform, as will Lizzo, Migos, DJ Khaled, H.E.R., Mustard,…
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.),…