Sunday TV: More Sports Documentaries
Sports documentaries, like those which you can learn about topics such as Anfield development, are big recently (in the absence of actual sports), so ESPN follows its epic and popular…
Saturday TV: Memorial Day Marathon
The three-day, 31 film Memorial Day Marathon begins on Turner Classic Movies with “Drums Along the Mohawk” (6 a.m.), “Captain Caution” (8 am.), “Glory” (9:30 a.m.), “Sergeant York” (11:45 a.m.),…
Friday TV: The Real Jane Roe Confesses
The first documentary from FX is a consequential one: “AKA Jane Roe” (FX, 9 p.m.) is British filmmaker Nick Sweeney recording the final months of Norma McCorvey, who agreed to…
Thursday TV: Add a Red Nose to the Mask
It was not always clear what Red Nose Day ever was about, and even less so this year when its cause (anti-poverty) is conflated with pandemic relief (which may mean…
Wednesday: ‘At Home with Amy Sedaris’
Hooray, the third season begins for the delightfully weird “At Home with Amy Sedaris” (TBS, 10:30 p.m.), even as all of us are at home as well, and in the…
Tuesday TV: Another New Superhero Show
If superhero mania is ever exhausted, it will happen on the CW, where the seventh (!) such show on its schedule begins tonight. “DC’s Stargirl” (CW, 8 p.m.) stars Brec…
Monday: British Import ‘Big Flower Fight’
Think of it as “The Great British Baking Show” for florists: “The Big Flower Fight” (Netflix, streaming) brings in 10 pairs of florists from across the globe to create giant…
Sunday TV: New ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Hightown’
First adapted from a French graphic novel by “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho for his 2014 film, the new TV series of “Snowpiercer” (TNT, 9 p.m.) has the same elaborate…
Saturday TV: Graduating Remotely
The coronavirus spring left graduating seniors without ceremonies or other celebrations of their achievements. Today, a number of prominent figures will try to make up for it with a pair…
Friday: Elle Fanning’s Catherine ‘The Great’
It was Helen Mirren who played an elder Catherine the Great in an HBO series, but in the brash new series “The Great” (Hulu, streaming) Elle Fanning plays a fresh…