Thursday TV: Forcing ‘Big Bang’ Laughs
I had the opportunity to witness a run-through of tonight’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS, 8 p.m.) when I was out in Los Angeles last month. It was…
Wednesday TV: Two Hours of Ramsay’s 24
Two restaurants in Los Angeles are renovated and given new menus in the two-hour second season finale of “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell & Back” (Fox, 8 p.m.). The…
Tuesday TV: Morgan Freeman vs. The Devil
Who is the devil? The third season of “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.) begins with the deep-voiced actor making inquiries and running up the…
Monday TV: Oprah’s Stab at ‘Neverland’
“Leaving Neverland” (HBO, 10 p.m.) reaches its conclusions with some of its most damning evidence: Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck don’t hear from Michael Jackson after they’ve effectively been replaced…
An Untimely Concert from the Jacksons
It was an auspicious moment in Jacksons history Friday, happening in a snowy and frozen remote corner — a rural Minnesota casino, in one of just a couple of scheduled…
Sunday TV: Climbing Heights, Hero Lows
The heights and depths of human possibility are explored in two extraordinary documentaries tonight. The uplifting one — way, way and sometimes uncomfortably too far up — is “Free Solo”…
Saturday TV: The Gender-Benders of ’82
Before Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscars is over, they present a couple of the award-winning gender bending roles, both from the same year, 1982: “Tootsie” (8 p.m.) and…
Friday TV: Let’s Salute the Losers
Funny that few have concentrated on the teams and sports stars who failed to win the big game. But now there’s “Losers” (Netflix, streaming), a new documentary series that chronicles…
Weezer, Briefly, at the Black Cat
Days before a new album was to come out, a week before another arena tour, Weezer played the cozy Black Cat in Washington, D.C. Wednesday for a Sirius XM broadcast…
James McMurtry’s ‘State of the Union’
The stage couldn’t be much more bare than it was for James McMurtry’s return visit to The Birchmere Music Hall. A couple of guitars, a table with a bottle of…