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…
Saturday TV: Tech Bros Consider the World
From a creator of “Succession” comes a timely dark comedy about billionaire tech bros on a retreat at the moment the world drops into an international crisis. Steve Carell, Jason…
Friday TV: Bono Tells His Story (and Sings)
The U2 frontman’s one-man show that mixed his memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” with solo performances gets a TV showcase in “Bono: Stories of Surrender” (Apple TV+, streaming), shot…
Thursday TV: Beil, Banks in ‘The Better Sister’
Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks play a pair of estranged sisters who reunite after a brutal murder in the new series “The Better Sister” (Prime Video, streaming). Matthew Goode plays…