Sunday TV: Soapy Nashville ‘Monarch’
The one and only new fall show from Fox is a Nashville soap opera about a fictional first family of country music. Trace Atkins fits right in here, but his…
Saturday TV: The Power of the Portraits
Capping a week when a pair of (different) White House portraits were unveiled, a new special “Picturing the Obamas” (Smithsonian, 8 p.m.) looks at the impact of the National Portrait…
Friday TV: Clintons Salute Fellow Women
In their new series “Gutsy” (Apple TV+, streaming) Hillary and Chelsea Clinton interview a series of women who have made an impact, the latest offshoot of their joint book “The…
Thursday TV: A Disney+ Day Onslaught
The second annual Disney+ Day brings some big productions, chief among them the unnecessary live action/CGI remake of “Pinocchio” (Disney+, streaming) with Tom Hanks as Gepetto, Cynthia Erivo as the…
Wednesday TV: Hulu’s Soapy ‘Tell Me Lies’
Emma Roberts executive produces but does not appear in “Tell Me Lies” (Hulu, streaming), a kind of poor man’s “Normal People” covering the relationship of a young couple played by…
Tuesday TV: How the GOP Enabled Trump
A sobering two-hour report on “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) begins with footage of a string of failed Presidential candidates graciously conceding their races, going back to the…
Capital Radio 9-5: Labor Day Edition
Let’s talk about the working man and the working woman this Labor Day with songs from Big Bill Broonzy and Woody Guthrie to the Replacements, The Clash and the Isley…
Monday TV: Women Behind the Cameras
The courageous work of women photojournalists on the frontline of conflicts worldwide are celebrated in the documentary “No Ordinary Life” (CNN, 10 p.m.), The film by Heather O’Neill follows the…
Sunday TV: The Passion on John McEnroe
As The U.S. Open (ESPN, 11 a.m.; ESPN2, 7 p.m.) reaches the Round of 16, a new documentary looks at one of tennis world’s most colorful competitors, John McEnroe. “McEnroe”…
Saturday TV: A Tribute to Taylor Hawkins
The life of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins who died in March at 50 will be marked with a pair of tribute of concerts this month, the first of which…