Wednesday TV: Travel’s Ghostly Turn
Sad to see the Travel Channel turn into the Haunted House Network. Their latest in the field is the dubiously titled “Paranormal Caught on Camera” (Travel, 10 p.m.) — which…
‘Catch-22’ Brings Clooney Back to TCA
There was an extra reminder at a well-attended session of the TV Critics Association winter press tour that pictures were not allowed, since the ever-photogenic George Clooney was entering for…
Tuesday: ‘Miracle Workers,’ ‘Boomerang’
"Miracle Workers" (TBS, 10:30 p.m.), the new comedy from Simon Rich (“Men Seeking Woman”) has Steve Buscemi as God, feeling ambivalent about his creation; Daniel Radcliffe as a low level…
Monday TV: City Doc, Country Doc
Two documentaries tonight zero in on urban and rural lives. The poetic and cinematic Oscar-nominated “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” by RaMell Ross looks at two young black men…
Sunday TV: Grammy Youth Takeover
The 61st Annual Grammy Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.) salutes some legacy artists with a salute to Aretha Franklin and performances by Dolly Parton and Dolly Ross. But mostly, the show…
Several Documentaries on Tap for HBO
Documentary films seemed to take a greater portion of HBO’s high-profile programming. There were panels for two impending films, Alex Gibney’s look into the implosion of the Silicon Valley startup…
Saturday TV: Won’t You Be His Neighbor?
Last year’s top grossing documentary didn’t get an Oscar nomination, but it gets a double showcase tonight — both on premium cable and on public television from which he sprang,…
Streep Wanted In On ‘Big Little Lies’
After an afternoon of mostly dour documentaries of fraud, and a bracing limited series about nuclear meltdown After days of rain, cool weather and clouds, the sun came out at…
Friday TV: The Agony of Middle School
The comic writers Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle fully commit to reproducing all the icky and unsure moments of middle school in their engaging comedy series “Pen15” (Hulu, streaming), a…
Thursday TV: Singing the Song of Parkland
After the shooting at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and staff members, drama teacher Melody Herzfeld still had to put on a musical.…