Tuesday TV: ‘Clearing the Air: The War on Smog’
Los Angeles was leading the way in 1943, too, when the city was suddenly blackened with smog and took a decades-long effort to help clean up the air, leaning to…
Monday TV: ‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ on ‘POV’
A family is forced by circumstances to go from living free in the Norwegian wilderness to adapting to modern society in Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s documentary “A New Kind of Wilderness,”…
Sunday TV: ‘Marlow Murder Club’ Returns
Another tiny British town has enough crime to warrant investigations from the police and, in the case of “The Marlow Murder Club” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), some amateur…
Saturday TV: College Football Season Starts
College football kicks and quickly fills up primetime network TV. That means off with Fresno State at Kansas (Fox, 6:30 p.m.), North Carolina Central at Southern (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and…
Friday TV: Sharp Comedy ‘Long Story Short’
The maker of “Bojack Horseman” Raphael Bob-Waksberg returns with a new, more personal animated series. The delightful “Long Story Short” (Netflix, streaming), about the interworkings of an urban Jewish family…
Thursday TV: International ‘Hostage’ Drama
The British prime minister’s husband is kidnapped and the French President is blackmailed in the new limited series “Hostage” (Netflix, streaming) starring Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy. John Cena returns…
Wednesday TV: Frank’s ‘Bachelor’ Moment
The 17th season finale of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX, 9 p.m.) coincides with the finale of Frank’s journey on “The Golden Bachelor.” From Brazil comes the new film…
Tuesday TV: A Documentary About Devo
If there was ever a band deserving a documentary telling its half-century story of art project mixed with wry humor and innovative electronics, it’s “Devo” (Netflix, streaming). Chris Smith’s documentary…
Capital Radio 8-18-25: RIP Reid, Whitlock & Flaco
We remembered a number of artists who’ve died in recent weeks, with retrospecitves of the underrated Terry Reid, who died Aug. 4 at 75; Derek and the Dominos co-founder Bobby…
Monday TV: The Gentrification Battle
A proposed massive new development in Brooklyn in a former industrial area as an “innovation district” provides the basis of a civics lesson on how it was met by the community…