Monday TV: ‘Planet Earth’ Gets a Remix
Scenes from “Planet Earth II” and “Blue Planet II” get a remix for the new compendium of highlights “Planet Earth: A Celebration” (BBC America, AMC, IFC, Sundance, 8 p.m.), running…
Sunday TV: ‘Love Fraud’ on Showtime
A nifty - and brief - new docuseries “Love Fraud” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) delves into the case of a Midwestern con man who romances, fleeces and leaves dozens of older…
Saturday TV: NBA Returns to the Court
After a three day strike that had real results — having sports fans come to terms with social justice and opening up NBA-owned arenas as voting centers — the NBA…
Friday TV: A Bunch of Teen Movies
Each of the bigger streaming services are competing by premiering new teen today. The teen movie equivalent of “The Purge” comes in the new “The Binge” (Hulu, streaming), which isn’t…
Thursday TV: Tales of ‘Class Action Park’
A documentary about a New Jersey amusement park that earned a reputation for being the most crazily dangerous of the 1980s, Action Park, gets a documentary treatment that may play…
Wednesday TV: The Paralympics Story
Just as we missed the Olympics this year, we are now missing the Paralympic Games. A documentary about the competition may fill that hole in “Rising Phoenix” (Netflix, streaming) about…
Tuesday TV: Final Episodes of ‘Trinkets’
A second season starts for “Trinkets” (Netflix, streaming), based on the young adult novel by Kirsten Smith, about three teen girls who meet at a mandated Shoplifters Anonymous meeting. “The…
Monday TV: ‘Love Island,’ Quarantined
Dating isn’t easy in the lockdown, and it’s not easy for dating shows either. Instead of a luxurious resort on an island, the second season of the U.S. version of…
Sunday TV: A Trip Into the NXIVM Cult
Any look into the weird NXIVM world would be interesting, but the nine-part “The Vow” (HBO, 10 pm.) benefits from a wealth of footage from almost every stage of the…
Saturday TV: Rom-Com in Covid Times
. The lingering lockdown requires a whole new level of creativity when it comes to making TV shows. “Love in the Time of Corona” (Freeform, 8 p.m.) was obviously written…