Tuesday TV: Martin, Short Solve Mysteries
It’s never bad to pair Steve Martin and Martin Short, but their new 10-episode mystery series “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu, streaming) doesn’t quite work. The idea of elderly…
Monday TV: French True-Crime Return
The French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade shook of the world of true crime documentaries with his saga of a North Carolina murder case, “The Staircase,” is back with another series,…
Sunday TV: Twin Towers Fall All Over Again
A generation later, it’s still hard to relive events of Sept. 11, 2001. Nonetheless to mark the 20th anniversary, here’s a six-part documentary series “9/11: One Day in America” (National…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written recently: An interview with Rod Argent of the Zombies, pictured above, for AARP the magazine.A look at the Fall TV outlook, also for…
Saturday TV: College Football Kicks Off
It seems early, but college football begins with a limited schedule that has Nebraska at Illinois (Fox, 1 p.m.), Connecticut at Fresno State (CBS Sports, 2 p.m.), Hawaii at UCLA…
Friday TV: Anna and Maya Go Animated
One way around COVID during the pandemic has been to animate shows rather than act in them. That works well in the special all-cartoon episode of “PEN15” (Hulu, streaming), which…
Thursday TV: The Domino Toppling Queen
If you are not aware of the world of domino toppling, you won’t know about the reigning women in the field, Lily Hevesh, subject of the award-winning documentary “Lily Topples…
Wednesday TV: Looking Into Bob Ross
The life of the ever-mellow landscape artist -- and the history of quick painting style -- is explored in the new documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” (Netflix,…
Tuesday TV: 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Begin
If you already miss the pageantry of the Olympic Games, here ’s the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony (NBC Sports, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.), only a year late,…
Monday TV: New ‘The Ultimate Surfer’
One of the last sports to get a reality competition on network TV comes in “The Ultimate Surfer” (ABC, 10 p.m.), gathering 14 surfers training in California for a $100,000…