Sunday TV: Cynthia Erivo hosts the 2025 Tonys
Cynthia Erivo hosts the 2025 Tony Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.), live from Radio City Music Hall. Broadway’s biggest night not only gives awards to the season’s best, but presents a…
Saturday: ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on CNN
The Tonys usually provide a good showcase of the best of Broadway. George Clooney, who has broken records on the Great White Way this season, goes one better by presenting…
Friday: Taraji P. Henson in Tyler Perry’s ‘Straw’
Taraji P. Henson plays a single mother pushed to the brink while caring for her ill daughter in Tyler Perry’s thriller “Straw” (Netflix, streaming). Sherri Shepherd, Glynn Truman and Sinband…
Thursday TV: NBA Playoff Finals Finally Begin
After weeks of playoffs here’s the hard-earned (and small market) Game 1 of the NBA Finals, with Indiana at Oklahoma City (ABC, 8:30 p.m.). At the same time, the Stanley…
Wednesday TV: Owen Wilson in ‘Stick’
Hoping to replicate the feel good, sports adjacent vibes of “Ted Lasso,” here’s “Stick” (Apple TV+, streaming), starring Owen Wilson as a washed up pro golfer who regains his mojo…
Tuesday TV: Housewives’ Kids Take Spotlight
As if passing the “Real Housewives” mantle to a new generation, the new “Next Gen NYC” (Bravo, 9 p.m.) follows 20 somethings in the Big Apple, many of whom are…
Capital Radio 6-2-25: Drugs, Deaths & Birthdays
The weirdly formatted Capital Radio this week was due to my own miscalculations about the American justice system. That is to say, I didn’t think I’d get picked for jury…
Monday TV: Mixing Genealogy with True Crime
Jane Seymour hosts the mix of true crime and genealogy that is the new series “Relative Secrets” (BBC America, 10 p.m.), joined by archaeologist Natasha Billson. “American Ninja Warrior” (NBC,…
Capital Radio 5-26-25: Decoration Day, Late
What they used to call Decoration Day was noted on Capital Radio last Monday (posted only now because I've been away). But there were two dozen songs about soldiers, war…
Sunday TV: ‘The Mortician,’ a Convict, Speaks
A funeral home director in Pasadena who was convicted and sentenced for five years for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and hiring hitmen for rival morticians is the subject of…