Saturday TV: Season 49 of ‘Austin City Limits’
“Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) begins its 49th season with a performance by guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, joined by the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Here's a…
Friday TV: ‘Totally Killer’ and Other Horror
Kieran Shipka and Julie Bowen star as a teen and her mom trying to avoid a “Sweet Sixteen Killer” on that might return on Halloween night after previously killing in…
Thursday TV: How a Music Star Became President
How a music star rallied to beat a long running regime in Uganda in 2021 is explained in the documentary “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” (National Geographic, 10 p.m.). In…
Wednesday TV: Two More New Canadian Series
The Canadian winds (and lack of scripted U.S. dramas) bring two new series from the Great North. “Sullivan’s Crossing” (CW, 8 p.m.) concerns a big city neurosurgeon played by Morgan…
Theater Review: Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’
The Writer’s Center is just the right place to stage a reverent version of one of Harold Pinter’s best known plays. Pinter’s modernist, somewhat absurdist “The Caretaker,” which the Edge…
Tuesday TV: Wild Cards and Cheaters
Boos will likely greet the Houston Astros as they advance in baseball’s postseason after winning the American League West title — an echo from their 2017 cheating scandal that found…
Capital Radio 10-2-23: Hardly Strictly October
The leaves aren’t quite falling yet here in D.C. But we did drop a half dozen songs of October to start the show. Then it turned to birthdays of such…
Monday TV: Oh Boy, Another Network Game Show
Another new game show premieres, this one with a Latin flavor. “Lotería Local” (CBS, 9 p.m.), based on Mexico Bingo, a traditional game of chance in the Latin world features…
Sunday TV: Courtney B. Vance Leads ‘Heist 88’
Courtney B. Vance plays a criminal mastermind who convinces some young bank employees to pull one more caper before he goes to jail in the new film “Heist 88” (Showtime,…