Also on Saturday: NBA Playoffs Begin
The NBA Playoffs begins its months-long campaign today with a number of first round games: San Antonio at Golden State (ABC, 3 p.m.), Washington at Toronto (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.), Miami…
Also Thursday: Great Add to ‘Great News’
Tina Fey puts a little more juice in her “Great News” (NBC, 9:30 p.m.) by joining the cast as a tough new executive and just like that the series moves…
Larry David and Bernie Sanders Related
In addition to the Brooklyn bray, a bald head, and being in their 70s, Larry David may have had an even closer relationship to Bernie Sanders, whom he famously impersonated…
Wednesday TV: ‘Hap and Leonard’ Return
“Greenleaf” (OWN, 10 p.m.), the Oprah Winfrey produced soap about a big church family in Memphis, in which she sometimes appears as a bartender, returns for a second season. But…
Wednesday TV: Black Film, BRIT Awards
Never mind that #OscarsSoWhite is slightly less so this year. But before that all gets on display Sunday, here’s the 2017 American Black Film Honors (BET, Centric, 8 p.m.) taped…
When David Lynch Met TV Press Tour
What are we to expect of “Twin Peaks”? The bizarre and exasperating series that shook up the zeitgeist more than a half century ago is suddenly back with an 18…
Jim Carrey Recalls Stand Up Days
Jim Carrey jumped on the main stage at the old Ice House in Pasadena, one of the oldest comedy clubs in the country, the other night. He was one of…
First Big Topic at TV Press Tour: Rape
The TV Critics Association began its winter press tour in Pasadena last week, only a couple of days after the Rose Bowl left town. It will stretch until just before…
Monday TV: President Obama Sings Carols
If only to hear President Obama join Chance the Rapper on “Jingle Bells,” it may be worth tuning into the “National Christmas Tree Lighting” (Hallmark, 7 p.m.). The annual event…
Monday TV: What’s Next for Cuba?
Days after the death of Fidel Castro comes two previously scheduled documentaries on the future of Cuba. In Platz Lopez Garmendia’s “Cuba, Fatherland or Death” (HBO, 8 p.m.), executive produced…