Monday TV: The Religious Right in Brazil
The rise of the Evangelical Christian church as a political force in Brazil and how it set the stage for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, who has since been charged…
Sunday TV: Stephen King Adapts ‘The Institute’
Stephen King is executive producer of a new series adapting his sci-fi novel “The Institute” (MGM+, 9 p.m.) about telekinetic teens who are held in a sinister facility that tests…
Sunday TV: Ayo Edebiri in ‘Opus’ on HBO
Currently featured in the new season of “The Bear” (Hulu, streaming), Ayo Edebiri also stars in Mark Anthony Green’s pop music horror flick “Opus” (HBO, 8 p.m.), that opened in…
Friday TV: ‘Dexter’ is Back from the Dead
Michael C. Hall’s Dexter was to have died at the end of the last spinoff, but he appears again in the new one, appropriately titled “Dexter: Resurrection” (Paramount+, streaming). Now…
Thursday TV: Lena Dunham’s Series ‘Too Much’
Lena Dunham returns to series television with a sort of update of “Girls” in which the central character is played by a comic talent who could be a younger version…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Bosch’ Spinoff ‘Ballard’
The latest spinoff of Michael Connelly’s literary series “Bosch” is “Ballard” (Prime Video, streaming), which concentrates on LAPD detective Renee Ballard, played by Maggie Q, who investigates cold cases with…
Capital Radio 7-7-2025: Ringo and Satchel
Here’s the rare Capital Radio show that was recorded but never played (at its regular time). So here it is a day late, belatedly celebrating what would have been the…
Capital Radio 6-30-25: Approaching the Fourth
Out traveling, so I haven’t been able to post the last show of June until now. It was dedicated largely to a holiday already passed (though some are still shooting…
Tuesday TV: Renaissance Artists Arise on PBS
Charles Dance, above, is Michelangelo and Jonny Glynn is Leonardo da Vinci as they make their way into Florence at the end of the 15th century in the three-part BBC…
Monday TV: All About Olympian Jim Thorpe
There’s a two-hour profile of the Olympic great, the first Native American to win gold for the U.S., who went on to play basketball, football and baseball, in “Jim Thorpe:…