Monday TV: Walking the Old Rail Lines
Julia Bradbury walks some of the 10,000 miles of disused railway lines in the United Kingdom to find historical clues to the Industrial Revolution as well as signs of modern…
Sunday TV: A Very Different ‘Perry Mason’
Raymond Burr seems the farthest thing away from the new adaptation of “Perry Mason” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Rather than a stocky defense lawyer of the 50s, the Erle Stanley Gardner…
Saturday: ‘Great American Groom-A-Long’
Pandemic-inspired specials aiming to help people stuck in their homes for months have already included “Haircut Night in America.” Now there’s a similar special for emergency-caused home pet care. Hence:…
Friday TV: Holland Taylor’s ‘Ann’
Holland Taylor not only starred in the one woman Broadway show “Ann,” about the flamboyant Texas governor Ann Richards, she also wrote it. She gives one of her final performances…
Thursday TV: Two from Padma Lakshmi
It’s a busy day for Padma Lakshmi. In addition to presiding over the season 17 finale of “Top Chef” (Bravo, 9 p.m.) in Italy, she debuts as hosts of a…
Wednesday TV: Friend of Fossils Hits Road
Science TV’s most delightful new host is Emily Graslie, a South Dakota native who volunteered at the University of Montana’s Zoological Museum and began a YouTube series called “The Brain…
Tuesday TV: An Epidemic of Missteps
Even doing his reporting from a computer screen in the Catskills, Martin Smith does an ace job sorting out the road to our worldwide pandemic on a new “Frontline” (PBS,…
Monday TV: She Got It All on Tape
Even as she hosted a local public affairs show in Philadelphia, Marion Stokes had her own ideas about television. In fact, she taped it around the clock, from the late…
Sunday TV: BBC Import ‘Beecham House’
In the new six-part drama “Beecham House” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) concerns a former soldier who buys a mansion to begin a new life in Delhi — before…
Saturday TV: New Agatha Christie Series
Jessica Raine of “Call the Midwife” joins David Walliams (“Little Britain”) are husband and wife detectives in the new six-part series “Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime” (Ovation, 7 p.m.). In…