Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written lately that have appeared elsewhere: An interview with the artist who won the National Portrait Gallery's people's choice award in a recent competition, for Smithsonian…
Monday TV: Hollywood’s Best Jazz Scores
A new month brings a new showcase for Turner Classic Movies, and a tuneful one: Jazz in Film, a 40 movie focus on Mondays and Thursdays all months. It begins…
Sunday: Who Wants to Be a ‘Quiz’ Cheat?
At a time when “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” has been revived, here’s a look at the British mania over the game show that led to a huge cheating…
Saturday TV: Space Flight, Take Two
Weather willing, there will be a countdown and launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, 3 p.m.). The Demo-2 test flight was to have launched Wednesday but…
Friday TV: Steve Carell’s ‘Space Force’
Steve Carell’s latest comedy, devised with Greg Daniels, has him leading the newly-formed U.S. “Space Force” (Netflix, streaming) with a strong comic cast that includes John Malkovich, Lisa Kudrow, Ben…
Thursday TV: Questlove Hosts Potluck
The Roots drummer, late night TV presence and music journalist Ahmir Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove, invites some friends like Tiffany Haddish, Zooey Deschanel, George Lopez, Hannibal Buress and…
HBO Max Launches With Scant Originals
Ready for a new streaming service with a monthly fee? HBO Max is here, bringing with it the entire catalog of HBO shows, but also the wealth of AT&T and…
Also Wednesday: Netflix Take on Epstein
The new four-part documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” (Netflix, streaming) covers the disgraced financier found dead in his cell, using accounts of some of his victims. Director Lisa Bryant…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Genetic Detective’ Begins
The new true crime series “The Genetic Detective” (ABC, 10 p.m.) follows the work of CeCe Moore, who uses DNA to help solve cold case murders. The first is a…
Monday TV: Re-Examining U.S. Grant
The History channel gets back to its original mission with the three-part “Grant” (History, 9 p.m.), telling the comipicated story of the Civil War general turned President. Historians and ex-generals…