Wednesday TV: John Mulaney Goes Live
A smart standup and inventive creator of “SNL” musical extravaganzas, John Mulaney was never a particularly good late night comedy host. In the few times he’s tried it last summer…
Tuesday TV: Five Cool Quincy Jones Soundtracks
Turner Classic Movies pays homage to Quincy Jones, who died last November at 91, with a handful of films he scored: “In the Heat of the Night” (8 p.m.), “In…
Capital Radio 3-10-25: Farewell to Too Many
For the first show back after three weeks away, the names of the artists who died — and deserved a tribute — was up to 17. They include the 17-year-old…
Monday TV: Ringo & Friends in Nashville
I don’t remember a lot of prime time Beatles concert specials, but here’s one with Ringo Starr, taped in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium in January to help promote his…
Sunday TV: ‘Righteous Gemstones’ Return
“The Righteous Gemstones” (HBO, 10 p.m.) begins its fourth and final season with an elaborate one-off exploring the Civil War roots of the family, in which Bradly Cooper guest stars…
Saturday TV: Lifetime’s ‘I Was Octomom’
Kristen Lee Gutoskie of “The Handmaid’s Tale” takes the title role in the bio film “I Was Octomom: The Natalie Suleman Story” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), about the notorious woman who…
Friday TV: Errol Morris Takes on Manson Case
The grisly story has been told numerous times in the last half century. Now documentarian Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line,” “The Fog of War”) tries his hand with a…
Thursday: We’re Back, but ‘Douglas is Cancelled’
Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey” fame stars in a new four-part cancel culture satire from “Sherlock” creator Steven Moffat, about a TV host who is rattled by a joke is…
Capital Radio 2-24-25: When Raga Rock Ruled
A trip to India inspired a long set about the time when George Harrison, through Ravi Shankar, introduced the instruments of Indian classical music to Western rock and pop. Suddenly…
Capital Radio 2-17-25: From President to King
We marked President's Day with a prerecorded set that morphed to comment on the tendency of the office's current occupant to act more like a king. We began by celebrating…