Your Oscar Host: He’s Gumby, Dammit
It seems at first a strange idea: Eddie Murphy hosting the Oscars. Possibly because he hasn’t done a lot of the kind of standup comedy lately that is thought to…
Rebound Roses from New ‘Bachelor’
“The Bachelor” continues its tradition of picking as its central figure a runner-up from an immediate past season by officially announcing Tuesday that Ben Flajnik will be the next one…
Tuesday TV: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ is Back
“Sons of Anarchy” (FX, 10 p.m.) returns for its fourth season with some anticipation – it’s the network’s most popular series by far and has caught on with a wide…
Other Tuesday TV: The Other Effect of 9/11
The ongoing themes for ten-year 9/11 salutes on TV all this week are sorrow and somber remembrances. Which is what makes tonight’s “Frontline” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) stand…
Monday TV: When ‘Real Housewives’ Get Real
Husbands never had it good on the “Real Housewives” series. They were seen as cads, or dunces, unreliable or plain dull. Even if the guy is famous, such as Kelsey…
Other Monday TV: Three 9/11 Specials, A Kardashian Finale
Sometimes you can’t tell the passage of time until you see how quickly kids have grown in, for example, the decade since 9/11. More than 3,000 children lost a parent…
The Shambles of the MDA Telethon
For as much as he did for the cause of Muscular Dystrophy prevention, and telethons in general, you’d think Jerry Lewis would have been treated a little better than he…
Sunday TV: It’s Telethon Day; Where’s Jerry?
Jerry’s Kids are left without a father figure this weekend as the 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon (WGN, 6 p.m.) plays it short and sweet tonight, wrapping up at…
Also On Sunday: ‘Good Wife’ Primer, ‘Curb’ with Bill Buckner
How do you get new audiences to your well-established, critically acclaimed show? Run a special that explains what’s been happening until now. Presumably, “The Good Wife: A New Beginning” (CBS,…
At the Tar Sands Protest
When the two week sit-in at the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring oil from “tar sands” in Canada across the plains to Texas, came…