Saturday TV: Willem Dafoe Does ‘SNL’
Willem Dafoe hosts a new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) with musical guest Katy Perry. The 10 p.m. rerun is from 2012 with Channing Tatum and Bon Iver. Capping…
Friday TV: Janet Jackson’s Story by Janet
The pop star narrates her own story in the two-night, four hour doc “Janet Jackson” (Lifetime, A&E, 8 p.m.) filled with a lot of previously unseen home video, from the…
Thursday TV: Mob Family Reunion
The crime world of the once Teflon Don and the Gambino mob family are covered in the new two hour special “Truth and Lies: The Last Gangster” (ABC, 8 p.m.)…
Wednesday TV: A Different Kind of Rock
Nick Offerman narrates the misleadingly named “American Rock Stars” (Peacock, streaming), which is actually about the U.S. Olympic curling team, as the practice for the winter games. Samantha Aucoin and…
Tuesday TV: Aziz Ansari, Back on the Stool
Filmed in New York's Comedy Cellar just a few weeks ago, here's some back-to-basics new material from “Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian” (Netflix, streaming). It’s his sixth standup special, and his…
Monday TV: A Glittering ‘The Gilded Age’
A bit of prestige television comes on a Monday for once instead of a Sunday. “The Gilded Age” (HBO, 9 p.m.) comes from the writer of “Downton Abbey” and its…
Sunday TV: A New Adversary for ‘Billions’
“Billions” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) returns for its sixth season, with Corey Stoll, above, stepping in where Damian Lewis stood (Lewis’ Bobby Axelrod took a deal to avoid jail and fled…
Saturday TV: Nearly Nothing, with ‘Nobody’
“Nobody” (HBO, 8 p.m.), last year’s action thriller with Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd and RZA, makes its premium cable debut on a night when there is nearly nothing…
Remembering Meat Loaf, 1947-2022
Marvin Lee Aday who made his name as a larger-than-life rock singer named Meat Loaf, died Thursday at 74 in Austin. He had been born in Texas as well, but…
Friday TV: Heart-Tugging ‘As We See It’
From “Friday Night Lights” and "Parenthood" creator Jason Katims comes the heart-tugging series “As We See It” (Amazon Prime, streaming) about a roommates who happen to be on the autism…