Friday TV: Illuminating Road Trip’Will & Harper’
When Will Ferrell learned “SNL” writer Harper Steele was coming out as a trans woman, he wanted to better understand it and spend time with his old friend, so they…
Thursday TV: Pretty Cute ‘Nobody Wants This’
Here’s a rom-com I can get behind: one with both romance and comedy — and a couple of proven personalities in the forefront, Kristen Bell (“Veronica Bell” and “The Good…
Film: ‘Escape from Extinction: Rewilding’
It begins with the usual montage of environmental catastrophe: crashing glaciers, devastating storms, widespread drought, pollution-choked skies. All of it coming so fast, it triggers the usual knee-jerk helplessness and…
Wednesday TV: The Dark Side of Ex-WWE CEO
What was once a hodgepodge collection of regional businesses - professional wrestling — was coalesced into the WWE by the megalomaniac Vince McMahon, who grew it into a billion dollar…
Tuesday TV: All Canada ‘Murder in a Small Town’
The new “Murder in a Small Town” (Fox, 8 p.m.) may be the most Canadian show ever. The gentle cop show based on the novels by Canadian writer L.R. Wright,…
Capital Radio 9-23-24: Charlie Burton Tribute
The death last week of one of my favorite, but still largely unknown, performers led me to a lengthy tribute of Charlie Burton, whose music has fueled me as his…
Monday TV: Zachary Quinto in ‘Brilliant Minds’
Zachary Quinto returns to series TV to star as a super intelligent neurologist, inspired by the life of Dr. Oliver Sacks (“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”),…
Sunday TV: Kathy Bates is the New ‘Matlock’
Leave it to CBS to revive another of its old series. The 2024 “Matlock” (CBS, 8 p.m.) stars Kathy Bates as the elder lawyer who surprises the young attorneys surrounding…
Saturday TV: ‘The Night Stalker’s First Case
When it premiered in 1972 as the ABC Movie of the Week, “The Night Stalker” was the highest rated TV movie to date. The vampire story starring Darren McGavin led…
Friday TV: ‘His Three Daughters’ on Netflix
This looks good: Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon join forces portraying sisters dealing with their ailing father in the new movie “His Three Daughters” (Netflix, streaming). Though it…