Saturday: Correspondents Dinner Returns
Trevor Noah hosts the first live White House Correspondents’ Dinner (CSPAN, CNN, 7 p.m.) live from the Washington Hilton in D.C. The bigger news is that a president will once…
Friday TV: Elisabeth Moss in ‘Shining Girl’
The latest series starring Elisabeth Moss, “Shining Girl” (Apple TV+, streaming) is based on a 2013 novel about a reporter assaulted by what turns out to be a time-traveling serial…
Other Things I’ve Written Lately
A report on theKennedy Center's Mark Twain Award to Jon Stewart.Looking at the 50th anniversary Watergate exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.An interview with the new head of content for…
Thursday TV: ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’
Jon Krakauer’s Mormon crime classic “Under the Banner of Heaven” (Hulu, streaming) can’t be easy to adapt into a new series. But with Andrew Garfield on board as a detective…
Wednesday TV: The Boxer from Auschwitz
HBO marks Holocaust Day of Remembrance with a powerful new Barry Levinson film about a Polish man who survived Auschwitz by participating in cruel boxing matches held for the enjoyment…
Tuesday TV: Songs of Holocaust Survivors
A group of singer songwriters met up with Holocaust survivors in the Hudson Valley to help share their stories and possibly help their healing through song, culminating in an emotional…
Capital Radio, 4-25-22: France & Flutes
Emmanuel Macron's decisive win for French president over his right wing opponent is all it took to celebrate France, Paris and the French language for an hour or so. When…
Monday TV: A Return to Baltimore’s Police
The legacy of “The Wire” only seems to have grown in the 12 years since its final episode. Its excellence in depicting the police and dealers in Baltimore’s never-ending war…
Sunday TV: Another Man Falls to Earth
There would seem no reason to remake a movie so well associated with David Bowie, but the smartly-written new series version of “The Man Who Fell to Earth” (Showtime, 10…
Saturday TV: Bogdanovich’s ‘Saint Jack’
Turner Classic Movies’ two-night salute to Peter Bogdanavich, who died in January at 82 concludes with the little seen “Saint Jack” (8 p.m.), starring Ben Gazzara as an American pimp…