Revising a Confounding Case, Morris-Style
In 1970, a Green Beret Army surgeon was accused of killing his wife and two young daughters. He blamed it on a roving band of Manson-inspired hippies who wrote crude…
Also on Friday: Amazon’s Trippy ‘Utopia’
“Utopia” (Amazon, streaming) has already been a British series about a bunch of comic book fans finding a conspiracy behind their favorite title. But the new version by Gillian Flynn…
Thursday TV: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ to CBS
“Star Trek: Discovery” (CBS, 10 p.m.), heretofore a streaming-only offshoot, gets its first broadcast appearance in a way to fill the otherwise empty TV slots this fall after the pandemic…
Wednesday: Sherlock Holmes’ Kid Sister
Millie Bobby Brown, the charismatic star of “Stranger Things” returns in a new film about Sherlock Holmes’ teenage sister, “Enola Holmes” (Netflix, streaming), based on the book series by Nancy…
Tuesday: ‘Time 100’ Listed but Can’t Meet
The big event for the movers and shakers named for the annual “Time 100” (ABC, 10 p.m.) was actually meeting in a big summit. That was all canceled for this…
Monday TV: Holdbacks and Cable Revivals
The day after the Emmys is the traditional start of the new TV season, and here’s what we have to show for it in a pandemic year. The one new…
Sunday TV: Winning Emmys from Home
It won’t be the most disrupted Emmys ever (that happened after 9/11 it was rescheduled twice and finally held in November). This year The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.)…
Saturday TV: Recalling the Life of ‘RBG’
The 2018 documentary “RBG” (CNN, 10 p.m.), about the remarkable life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, gets a replay. It’s the film where she she says she wants to be remembered…
Friday TV: Nurse Ratched’s Early Days
Not sure that the backstory of the Big Nurse in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (that won Louise Fletcher an Oscar in 1975) needs to be told. But the…
Thursday TV: Drama Seeks Vanished Plane
Archie Panjabi of “The Good Wife” stars alongside Christopher Plummer as investigators trying to figure out the disappearance of an air liner over the Atlantic in the drama series “Departure”…