Wednesday TV: ACM Awards Tries Again
Postponed from April, The 55th Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.) is finally presented -- from Nashville for the first time -- with live and taped performances from its…
Tuesday TV: Freezing the Tyke for Later
It sounds like a science fiction movie, but the documentary “Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice” (Netflix, streaming) follows a family from Thailand who decide to cryogenically freeze the…
‘Watchmen’ Sweeps Invisible TCA Awards
Alas, no dress-up this year for the TCA Awards, the annual event from the TV Critics Association, where winners (and strangely, no losers) show up in a California hotel ballroom…
Monday TV: Dancing with Reality Stars
Given the success of “Tiger King” and the lingering stories about her first husband’s disappearance, the booking of Carole Baskin is a delicious addition to the 29th season of “Dancing…
Sunday TV: Another New Detective for PBS
Wunmi Mosaku plays the latest imported European detective on public television — “Van der Valk” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) who works out of Amsterdam and works tonight on…
Saturday TV: ‘Coastal Elites’ Speak Out
If the series of entertaining monologues by top stars that make up the hyper-topical “Coastal Elites” (Fox, 8 p.m.) make it feel seem like a play. Paul Rudnick conceived it…
Friday TV: Katherine Ryan’s ‘The Duchess’
The Canadian comic Katherine Ryan stars in the new series based on her life as a single mom living in London and considering a second child in the ribald series…
Thursday: Super Bowl to Super-spreader
Minus a preseason and most of its live audience, the National Football League attempts to begin a season amid the pandemic tonight with Houston at Kansas City (NBC, 8:20 p.m.).…
Wednesday TV: Hulu Gets ‘Woke’
Lamorne Morris of “New Girl” returns to star as a Black cartoonist whose world becomes animated after he’s attacked by the police. Timely and based on the life of cartoonist…
Tuesday TV: When Covid Hits the Poor
Child poverty has only been made worse by the pandemic and racial uprisings. A new “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) looks at the effects on families in Ohio.…