Saturday TV: ‘SNL’ Shelters at Home
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) presents one of the most unusual episodes of the show since they did one from New Orleans in season two (in 1977). Owing to…
Friday TV: Kid Beats Up WWE Stars
In the new family feature “The Main Event” (Netflix, streaming), an 11-year-old WWE fan finds a magical wrestling mask that gives him super strength to get in the ring. Seth…
Thursday TV: ‘The Good Fight’ Continues
The best drama on CBS All Access — and maybe all of CBS — is the subscription only “The Good Fight” (CBS All Access, streaming), the adaptation of "The Good…
Wednesday TV: ‘Modern Family’ Exits
From the beginning, Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan’s “Modern Family” (ABC, 9 p.m.) stood apart from any other TV sitcom, upending the format and injecting life into the field with…
Tuesday TV: Farewell to ‘Schitt’s Creek’
A couple of beloved family comedies end their runs this week. The first is “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop TV, 8 p.m.), the Canadian import which didn’t even get popular until about…
Monday TV: Tracking Early Adversity
How does early adversity affect child development? It’s been the work of director Roger Weisberg. His film “Broken Places”(PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) includes subjects he filmed at age…
Sunday: Revisiting Atlanta’s Lost Children
There were two big projects recently about the bombing at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta that killed one, but has never been much about the rash of child killings there…
Saturday TV: When Egypt Had 10 Plagues
Hey, isn’t this coming a week early? Oh, well, everything is off kilter. And “The Ten Commandments” (ABC, 7 p.m.) has 10 plagues. The British series “Line of Duty” (AMC,…
Friday TV: Kid Reporters to the Rescue
The new family mystery “Home Before Dark” (Apple TV +, streaming) seems at first far-fetched: a murder cracked by a 9-year-old self-declared reporter. But the character of Brooklynn Prince (of…
Virus Takes Adam Schlesinger, 52
It’s clear COVID-19 will mow us all down, spiritually if not literally, decimating every aspect of life. The music world is already being cut down from every genre. I just…