Saturday TV: College Football Season Starts
College football kicks and quickly fills up primetime network TV. That means off with Fresno State at Kansas (Fox, 6:30 p.m.), North Carolina Central at Southern (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and…
Friday TV: Sharp Comedy ‘Long Story Short’
The maker of “Bojack Horseman” Raphael Bob-Waksberg returns with a new, more personal animated series. The delightful “Long Story Short” (Netflix, streaming), about the interworkings of an urban Jewish family…
Thursday TV: International ‘Hostage’ Drama
The British prime minister’s husband is kidnapped and the French President is blackmailed in the new limited series “Hostage” (Netflix, streaming) starring Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy. John Cena returns…
Wednesday TV: Frank’s ‘Bachelor’ Moment
The 17th season finale of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX, 9 p.m.) coincides with the finale of Frank’s journey on “The Golden Bachelor.” From Brazil comes the new film…
Tuesday TV: A Documentary About Devo
If there was ever a band deserving a documentary telling its half-century story of art project mixed with wry humor and innovative electronics, it’s “Devo” (Netflix, streaming). Chris Smith’s documentary…
Capital Radio 8-18-25: RIP Reid, Whitlock & Flaco
We remembered a number of artists who’ve died in recent weeks, with retrospecitves of the underrated Terry Reid, who died Aug. 4 at 75; Derek and the Dominos co-founder Bobby…
Monday TV: The Gentrification Battle
A proposed massive new development in Brooklyn in a former industrial area as an “innovation district” provides the basis of a civics lesson on how it was met by the community…
Sunday TV: Deep Into the Yogurt Murders
The strip mall joint in Austin was called I Can't Believe It's Yogurt. But nobody could believe the crime that happened there in 1991 either. Four teenage girls were murdered…
Saturday TV: ‘The Legend of Ochi’ on HBO
The family fantasy adventure “The Legend of Ochi” (HBO, 8 p.m.) makes its premium cable debut. Helena Zengel stars as a farmgirl in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine who discovers…
Some Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written lately: An overview of the latest renovations at the National Air & Space Museum for Smithsonian Magazine. A remembrance of Ozzy Osbourne from…