Friday TV: Three Stars in New Movies
The big streaming services bring in big stars for a trio of new movies today. Tom Hanks puts on another military uniform, as a U.S. Naval officer overseeing a shipment…
Thursday TV: Amy Schumer’s Pregnancy
Comedian Amy Schumer shares her pregnancy and demonstrates how she puts a stand-up special together on the three-part documentary “Expecting Amy” (HBO Max, streaming). It accompanies another new offering for…
Wednesday TV: Astrology’s Latin Liberace
Walter Mercado became a worldwide phenomenon when he began his over-the-top horoscope readings dressed in glittery capes and jewelry worthy of Liberace. Born in Puerto Rico, soon he was seen…
Tuesday TV: Mike Rowe Revisits Dirty Jobs
Mike Rowe takes to the highway to look back at some of the jobs he visited in his popular former series in the four-part update “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip” (Discovery,…
Monday: When Women Demanded the Vote
The first half of the two-part, four hour “American Experience: The Vote” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) is meant to mark this year’s 100th anniversary of women finally achieving…
Sunday TV: Trouble Down in Texas
The five episode documentary series “Outcry” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) covers the case of a celebrated Texas high school football star convicted of child molestation but a large group in the…
Saturday TV: Fireworks, Safer from Home
In contrast to some risky public gatherings, “A Capitol Fourth” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) goes virtual this year, with its performances from Trace Adkins, The Temptations John Fogerty,…
Friday TV: Holiday ‘Hamilton’ Streaming
The big prize of the pandemic era and perhaps the only patriotic punch of the July Fourth weekend is the moving up of the original cast of “Hamilton” (Disney+, streaming),…
Thursday TV: ‘Warrior Nun’ Awakens
In the new series “Warrior Nun” (Netflix, streaming), based on the comic book, Alba Baptista stars as a woman in contemporary Spain who wakes up in a morgue with a…
Wednesday: ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns
From the producers of “Stranger Things” comes the new take on the old series “Unsolved Mysteries” (Netflix, streaming), again inviting viewers to solve the mysteries and bring solutions to various…