Capital Radio 1-19-26: Martin Luther King Day
Honoring Martin Luther King Day may be more important than ever in a political culture anxious to erase his legacy. So half the show (starting with part two, above) saluted…
Monday: College Football Championship Final
It all comes down to this: College football’s national championship game has Indiana at Miami (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.). Elsewhere, the NBA celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a full…
Sunday TV: HBO’s ‘Knight of Seven Kingdoms’
Set 100 years before “Game of Thrones,” the latest spin-off “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (HBO, 10 p.m.) takes a lighter tone as it follows Ser Duncan the Tall,…
Saturday TV: Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s Story
There may be a whole generation or two who don’t know the lurid saga of Joey Buttafuoco, whose 17-year-old mistress Amy Fisher, dubbed the “Long Island Lolita” in the tabloids,…
Friday TV: Damon, Affleck Together Again
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces again in the movie “The Rip” (Netflix, streaming), playing a couple of cops in Miami who have to count millions of dollars of…
Thursday TV: ‘Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials’
Chris Chibnall of “Broadchurch” and “Dr. Who” fame, brings takes an assured hand in adapting “Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” (Netflix, streaming) into an entertaining, fast-moving three-part mystery, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce,…
Wednesday: Idris Elba Fixes Another ‘Hijack’
In the first season of “Hijack” (Apple TV, streaming), Idris Elba tried to negotiate the safe landing of a hijacked plane. For season two that begins tonight, he tris to…
Tuesday: Will Smith Sent to Corners of Earth
It’s been nearly four years since Will Smith swatted his once red hot career with the swiftness of a slap to Oscars host Chris Rock. He’s only been in one…
Capital Radio 1-12-26: Saga of Good vs. ICE
The death of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir Saturday at 78 led the show with some of his best known songs. (I wrote a separate piece about Weir on Substack…
Monday TV: How They Made ‘Stranger Things’
You broke records watching five seasons, culminating in the New Year’s finale. Now the question is: How’d they do it? The documentary “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things…