Saturday TV: Meerkat Descendants Return
“Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) has a pedigree with the original true nature from South Africa’s Kalahari Desert that ran from 2005-08. Its star is…
King Adapts His Own ‘Lisey’s Story’
Considering the number of books and stories Stephen King has allowed others to adapt over the decades, it’s remarkable that he’s adapting his own “Lisey’s Story” (Apple TV+, streaming) himself,…
Also on Friday: Antler Boy in ‘Sweet Tooth’
A new series adapted from a DC comic series, “Sweet Tooth” (Netflix, streaming) concerns a future where kids are half human, half animal and are feared because they might cause…
Thursday TV: Bright ‘We Are Lady Parts’
The delightful new “We Are Lady Parts” (Peacock, streaming) is a six-episode comedy from London about a Muslim female punk band and the very shy woman they want to enlist…
Film: Comedy Meets Horror in ‘Too Late’
For a business aligned with mirth, standup comedy uses an awful lot of terms associated with violence: “You killed out there.” “I bombed.” “I murdered ‘em.” So it might make…
Wednesday: The Pandemic 40 Years Ago
The scourge from two generations back gets the spotlight in the two hour documentary “Vice Versa: The Neglected Pandemic, 40 Years of HIV & AIDS” (Vice, 9 p.m.), hosted by…
Tuesday TV: ‘The Jihadist’ on ‘Frontline’
A new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) profiles a former al-Quaida commander who now wants to help the West. The 16th season begins for “America’s Got Talent” (NBC,…
Monday TV: New Cartoon is ‘HouseBroken’
Fox has so many animated shows on Sunday, they’ve spilled to Monday with the new “HouseBroken” (Fox, 9 p.m.), a show about pets which seems to have a lot of…
Sunday TV: Remembering Tulsa’s Horrors
It’s testament to faulty education — and a concentrated effort to bury it — that so many people weren’t aware of the 1921 massacre of a successful black neighborhood in…
Saturday TV: Long Road to Peace in ‘Oslo’
It was a bold move when a Norwegian diplomat and her husband decided to host secret peace talks in 1993, an attempt to nudge peace to the Middle East. But…