Sunday TV: Another New Detective for PBS
Wunmi Mosaku plays the latest imported European detective on public television — “Van der Valk” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) who works out of Amsterdam and works tonight on…
Saturday TV: ‘Coastal Elites’ Speak Out
If the series of entertaining monologues by top stars that make up the hyper-topical “Coastal Elites” (Fox, 8 p.m.) make it feel seem like a play. Paul Rudnick conceived it…
Friday TV: Katherine Ryan’s ‘The Duchess’
The Canadian comic Katherine Ryan stars in the new series based on her life as a single mom living in London and considering a second child in the ribald series…
Thursday: Super Bowl to Super-spreader
Minus a preseason and most of its live audience, the National Football League attempts to begin a season amid the pandemic tonight with Houston at Kansas City (NBC, 8:20 p.m.).…
Wednesday TV: Hulu Gets ‘Woke’
Lamorne Morris of “New Girl” returns to star as a Black cartoonist whose world becomes animated after he’s attacked by the police. Timely and based on the life of cartoonist…
Tuesday TV: When Covid Hits the Poor
Child poverty has only been made worse by the pandemic and racial uprisings. A new “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) looks at the effects on families in Ohio.…
Monday TV: Photo Class in Appalachia
A woman who taught Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s to photograph their world and dreams revisits the work and the onetime children 40 years later in Wendy Ewald and Elizabeth…
Sunday TV: A New Sequel to ‘Power’
The new “Power Book II: Ghost” (Stars, 9 p.m.) picks up from the popular “Power” series by following the rise of the son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.). One boost: His…
Saturday TV: Kentucky Derby Days Late
Typical of a year when a pandemic has thrown the sports calendar off its axis, The 146th Kentucky Derby (NBC, 2:30 p.m.) is run on Labor Day Weekend. Among the…
Friday TV: Big ‘Mulan’ on Small Screen
Constantly remaking their own properties, from cartoon, to stage musical, to live action movie again, usually means Disney has run out of original story ideas. The live action “Mulan” (Disney…