Monday TV: Using Music to Hook Up
One thing that may help us go through a time of high anxiety, sickness and death is music. It happens to be a part of two reality show spin-offs that…
Sunday TV: ‘Belgravia’s ‘Downton’ Feel
In a series so much like “Downton Abbey” you might start looking for familiar characters, the new “Belgravia” (Epix, 9 p.m.) is from the same author, Julian Fellowes, and luxuriates…
Saturday TV: ‘SNL’ Shelters at Home
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) presents one of the most unusual episodes of the show since they did one from New Orleans in season two (in 1977). Owing to…
Friday TV: Kid Beats Up WWE Stars
In the new family feature “The Main Event” (Netflix, streaming), an 11-year-old WWE fan finds a magical wrestling mask that gives him super strength to get in the ring. Seth…
Thursday TV: ‘The Good Fight’ Continues
The best drama on CBS All Access — and maybe all of CBS — is the subscription only “The Good Fight” (CBS All Access, streaming), the adaptation of "The Good…
Wednesday TV: ‘Modern Family’ Exits
From the beginning, Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan’s “Modern Family” (ABC, 9 p.m.) stood apart from any other TV sitcom, upending the format and injecting life into the field with…
Tuesday TV: Farewell to ‘Schitt’s Creek’
A couple of beloved family comedies end their runs this week. The first is “Schitt’s Creek” (Pop TV, 8 p.m.), the Canadian import which didn’t even get popular until about…
Monday TV: Tracking Early Adversity
How does early adversity affect child development? It’s been the work of director Roger Weisberg. His film “Broken Places”(PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) includes subjects he filmed at age…
Sunday: Revisiting Atlanta’s Lost Children
There were two big projects recently about the bombing at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta that killed one, but has never been much about the rash of child killings there…
Saturday TV: When Egypt Had 10 Plagues
Hey, isn’t this coming a week early? Oh, well, everything is off kilter. And “The Ten Commandments” (ABC, 7 p.m.) has 10 plagues. The British series “Line of Duty” (AMC,…